Applying inland from outside Canada... a way to jump start Open Work Permit?

[astute1199]

Hello all, fantastic community here!

THE SITUATION:

I am a Canadian citizen and I want to sponsor my common-law partner who is a Turkish citizen so we can live in Canada. We have lived together in Turkey for the last six years and will be traveling to Canada in two months. She already has a visitor's visa.

We are familiar with the pros and cons of inland vs. outland sponsorship. We are also familiar with all the documents, etc, etc, needed to make a sponsorship application/permanent residency application.

The most important aspect for us is that she is able to work in Canada as quickly as possible upon our arrival. This means we are looking to pursue an inland application in conjunction with an open work permit application. We don't care how long it takes for things to be official, as long as we are both living together in Canada and working so that we can re-establish our lives.

However, we are also aware the open work permit application could take months to processes, which is not an ideal situation for us, obviously, as she'll be sitting around in Canada waiting with nothing to do.

So the question is: Can we jump start the process?

THE PLAN:

We apply as soon as possible, submitting an inland sponsorship application/permanent residency application/open work permit application while we are in Turkey. In two months we travel to Canada as scheduled.

With that time frame, does that mean the open work permit will already have been in process for two months, potentially meaning that it is either already approved or nearing approval? By this method, do you think it is possible we can fulfill our plan of my partner working as quickly as possible upon our arrival?

Or...am is my reasoning about all this completely off? Love to hear your thoughts and look forward to you all poking as many holes into what appears to me to be a pretty straightforward plan.

Thanks everybody!

 

[Alurra71]

Hello all, fantastic community here!

THE SITUATION:

I am a Canadian citizen and I want to sponsor my common-law partner who is a Turkish citizen so we can live in Canada. We have lived together in Turkey for the last six years and will be traveling to Canada in two months. She already has a visitor's visa.

We are familiar with the pros and cons of inland vs. outland sponsorship. We are also familiar with all the documents, etc, etc, needed to make a sponsorship application/permanent residency application.

The most important aspect for us is that she is able to work in Canada as quickly as possible upon our arrival. This means we are looking to pursue an inland application in conjunction with an open work permit application. We don't care how long it takes for things to be official, as long as we are both living together in Canada and working so that we can re-establish our lives.

However, we are also aware the open work permit application could take months to processes, which is not an ideal situation for us, obviously, as she'll be sitting around in Canada waiting with nothing to do.

So the question is: Can we jump start the process?

THE PLAN:

We apply as soon as possible, submitting an inland sponsorship application/permanent residency application/open work permit application while we are in Turkey. In two months we travel to Canada as scheduled.

With that time frame, does that mean the open work permit will already have been in process for two months, potentially meaning that it is either already approved or nearing approval? By this method, do you think it is possible we can fulfill our plan of my partner working as quickly as possible upon our arrival?

Or...am is my reasoning about all this completely off? Love to hear your thoughts and look forward to you all poking as many holes into what appears to me to be a pretty straightforward plan.

Thanks everybody!

You can not file an INLAND application until both you and she are actually IN Canada. If you aren't planning on arriving for four months or more, then ideally you would start an OUTLAND application, with your background and relationship history it might be finished very soon after your arrival in Canada in which case she wouldn't require a work permit to work. Of course it is ultimately up to you.

 

[scylla]

As explained above - your plan isn't possible. Both of you must be physically in Canada to apply inland. There's no way to "jump start" the OWP. You need to come to Canada, apply for PR inland (including the OWP) and be prepared to wait up to four months for OWP to arrive.

 

[esencan]

I don't know if this will help but we just finished the process from applying outland from Turkey - I'm a Canadian/Turkish citizen, wife is Turkish. Our application was received on Nov 12, 2015 and my wife received her COPR on April 21, 2016 - just about 5 months. If you really want / need to go to Canada in two months it might be much quicker to simply apply outland now, go to Canada and wait for her approval. I assume her visa is at least a couple of months that should give you enough time. She might have to make a trip back to collect her COPR / passport and then do the landing but she will get her SIN when she lands so that will give her work permission in about 5-6 months from now + of course her PR! That is best case scenario I suppose with outland but considering inland PR is much much much longer I think it would be smart to sacrifice a couple of months now.