Can a Canadian citizen sponsor a spouse if he doesn't intend to live in Canada.
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You can sponsor outside of Canada, but once PR is granted the applicant has residency obligations.
You may have issues. For the PR application to be approved, you must include evidence/proof in the application that you plan to return to Canada to live here once your spouse's PR visa is approved.
Thank you for your reply kcward7.
Is it required that the Canadian citizen move back to Canada?
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In order for the application to be approved, you will need to convince IRCC of your intentions to move back to Canada when your spouse's PR is granted. That may be difficult (and, frankly, misrepresentation) if you do not actually intend to return.
Thanks for the reply Scylla.
The application was submitted in Feb. 2017 and it was indicated that the sponsor will move back to Canada in Oct. 2017 but the plans changed because the spouse wasn't living in the same country with the Sponsor then but now they live together in the same and the Sponsor didn't mive back in Oct 2017 as indicated in the application form.
How do you deal with this scenario.
Hard to say. CIC may process the application without requesting evidence that you've moved. Or they may come back to you and ask for hard proof that you will relocate to Canada once the PR application is approved. Not much you can do but wait and see what happens.
Thanks Scylla,
They recently requested for the evidence that the Sponsor has moved but nothing to show for it since the Sponsor hasn't moved.
Do you have any link i can read about the implications of not moving to Canada if sponsoring a spouse?
The Sponsor has not moved back to Canada as at when stated in submitted application
If you can't satisfy CIC that you will move to Canada once your spouse has the PR visa, then you can expect the application to be refused.
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You should submit new proof of when the sponsor is planning to move back to Canada, with an explanation as to why the sponsor did not do so in October, as originally planned. Without proof, they will almost certainly reject the application.
