Dear all,
It's my first time using this forum, so please excuse me if I don't quite have the hang of it. Your advice and experience would be gratefully received as I'm not having much luck looking at the CIC website!
I am a Canadian citizen living in the UK and am married to a UK citizen. I am going to sponsor my wife for permanent residence. We would love to be able to move to Canada by April 09. We are aiming for her to get her permanent residence as soon as possible so that she can continue her career. Our queries:
- My wife lived for 1 year in the US (Florida and Michigan) when she was 20. Does she need to get an FBI check as well as the state police checks? As the websites indicate that the police checks can take some 5 months and then the permanent residence can take some 7 months, we were wondering if we could submit our permanent residence application without the US criminal checks and then send in the checks once they are complete (in essence doing the two activities in parallel rather than sequentially to reduce the end to end time)?
- As her sponsor, I currently live in the UK (and have done for 16 years). What type of evidence is required to show that I will settle in Canada? I do not have a job offer or a contract for a house because it is still over 5 months until we move. Is it sufficient to show correspondence I have had with companies about jobs?
- If we go to Canada before the application is processed, do we declare at immigration that she has an application for permanent residence in progress?
- Finally, there is contradictory information about where to send the application. Do we send it to the Case Processing Centre in Missisauga or to the Canadian embassy here in London?
Many thanks,
Ron
It's my first time using this forum, so please excuse me if I don't quite have the hang of it. Your advice and experience would be gratefully received as I'm not having much luck looking at the CIC website!
I am a Canadian citizen living in the UK and am married to a UK citizen. I am going to sponsor my wife for permanent residence. We would love to be able to move to Canada by April 09. We are aiming for her to get her permanent residence as soon as possible so that she can continue her career. Our queries:
- My wife lived for 1 year in the US (Florida and Michigan) when she was 20. Does she need to get an FBI check as well as the state police checks? As the websites indicate that the police checks can take some 5 months and then the permanent residence can take some 7 months, we were wondering if we could submit our permanent residence application without the US criminal checks and then send in the checks once they are complete (in essence doing the two activities in parallel rather than sequentially to reduce the end to end time)?
- As her sponsor, I currently live in the UK (and have done for 16 years). What type of evidence is required to show that I will settle in Canada? I do not have a job offer or a contract for a house because it is still over 5 months until we move. Is it sufficient to show correspondence I have had with companies about jobs?
- If we go to Canada before the application is processed, do we declare at immigration that she has an application for permanent residence in progress?
- Finally, there is contradictory information about where to send the application. Do we send it to the Case Processing Centre in Missisauga or to the Canadian embassy here in London?
Many thanks,
Ron