Hello,
I would like to ask your feedback or ask you to share your experience about entering Canada while the sponsoring procedure is still under way:
My two daughters (2 and 5) and myself are Canadian citizens.
We started the sponsorship procedure for my wife in September outside Canada. Can she come with
us to Canada with a Hungarian passport (no tourist visa needed )and enter the country
without problem before she is approved (which is a formality)? How can we minimize the risk that immigrations will turn her away?
The reason for the urgency is that I only have chance to get an interview (and eventually a job) if I am available
right away in Canada. (employers do not hire based on long distance interviews).
We would like our daughter to start school in September and she would need a few months in an ESL course to improve her English.
We plan to fly to Toronto in April, but it may take until September to receive her final approval.
May be we honest with the immigration officer and tell our story ? We will back up everything as we will have copies of the application forms, my approval as a sponsor etc ? Do immigration officers have a discretion to issue a TRV based on compassionate grounds ( if she cannot enter, I cannot take care of the children and start working by myself... ) If she needs to return to Hungary, the family will be separated, my daughter will miss school, our financial reserves will decline , our genuine intention to re-settle in Canada might be jeopardized. )
Or we shall tell that we are visiting to prepare our final return to Canada and try to extend her TRV once she is already in Canada ?
Many thanks for your feedback and I hope to receive some good advice as we are really want move back to Canada ASAP.
RP
I would like to ask your feedback or ask you to share your experience about entering Canada while the sponsoring procedure is still under way:
My two daughters (2 and 5) and myself are Canadian citizens.
We started the sponsorship procedure for my wife in September outside Canada. Can she come with
us to Canada with a Hungarian passport (no tourist visa needed )and enter the country
without problem before she is approved (which is a formality)? How can we minimize the risk that immigrations will turn her away?
The reason for the urgency is that I only have chance to get an interview (and eventually a job) if I am available
right away in Canada. (employers do not hire based on long distance interviews).
We would like our daughter to start school in September and she would need a few months in an ESL course to improve her English.
We plan to fly to Toronto in April, but it may take until September to receive her final approval.
May be we honest with the immigration officer and tell our story ? We will back up everything as we will have copies of the application forms, my approval as a sponsor etc ? Do immigration officers have a discretion to issue a TRV based on compassionate grounds ( if she cannot enter, I cannot take care of the children and start working by myself... ) If she needs to return to Hungary, the family will be separated, my daughter will miss school, our financial reserves will decline , our genuine intention to re-settle in Canada might be jeopardized. )
Or we shall tell that we are visiting to prepare our final return to Canada and try to extend her TRV once she is already in Canada ?
Many thanks for your feedback and I hope to receive some good advice as we are really want move back to Canada ASAP.
RP
