Can a person land with visitor visa?

[htrak]

Hello, I have applied for PR under CEC category. I received medical request for my wife and myself early this week. I am currently in Canada but my wife is in our home country. She is planning to do her medicals next week in our home country. After her medicals and mine are done, assuming everything is ok, CIC would request RPRF/Biodata as well as passport to stamp the PR visa. I can send my passport to Ottawa and I can land after crossing the border. My questions:

1. Can my wife use her current visitor visa to land? I just want to avoid sending email to CIC requesting them to arrange for stamping in my home country because that might delay things and she might have to reschedule her flight tickets.

2. At what point in the process do we get CoPR? Is it along with passport when CIC returns it to us with visa stamped?

Please let me know what you think. Your help is very much appreciated.

 

[ferna]

1. No, she needs to have immigrant visa. That's different from visitor visa she has now.

2. Yes, you get CoPR with your stamped passport.

 

[Canuck*soon]

Can she land as a "settler" ? I seem to remember reading something about that somewhere, but forgive me as I do not know all of the details about it. Our immigrate consultant also mentioned it to us some time ago as well. It might be worth checking into.
Just my two cents for what it's worth......

 

[maynald]

my suggestion is let her arrived in canada with her visitor visa,and when you received your copr ,then do the landing together at the border.it takes a month after medical to received ppr and then maybe 2-4 weeks before you get your passport back and copr.

 

[htrak]

Thanks guys!

 

[TOAidy]

Hello, I have applied for PR under CEC category. I received medical request for my wife and myself early this week. I am currently in Canada but my wife is in our home country. She is planning to do her medicals next week in our home country. After her medicals and mine are done, assuming everything is ok, CIC would request RPRF/Biodata as well as passport to stamp the PR visa. I can send my passport to Ottawa and I can land after crossing the border. My questions:

1. Can my wife use her current visitor visa to land? I just want to avoid sending email to CIC requesting them to arrange for stamping in my home country because that might delay things and she might have to reschedule her flight tickets.

2. At what point in the process do we get CoPR? Is it along with passport when CIC returns it to us with visa stamped?

Please let me know what you think. Your help is very much appreciated.

1. The previous comment was right - she absolutely cannot land with any other visas except for the one that they will be giving her, which has a different category, which is IM-1 Immigration, and the number of entry is one.

2. You get CoPR along with your passports in the same package.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

 

[htrak]

1. The previous comment was right - she absolutely cannot land with any other visas except for the one that they will be giving her, which has a different category, which is IM-1 Immigration, and the number of entry is one.

2. You get CoPR along with your passports in the same package.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

Great, thanks for your response.