Donmakaveli said:
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Thanks Pipis Husband. I just got married tho in January and i saw on their website that it takes 17months to process spouse visa. I and my wife will remain in the US for sometime before relocating so thats why i didnt bother that much. I know i'll have to have more funds but what i want to clarify is if i must be in canada to file for her. After i get the visa, cant i do it from the US? Thanks
Sir, first thing to know that the time you saw on the website is
only a guide. Just going by the exprience of people here who have been waiting for MR since 2014, not to talk of getting PPR should have been a lesson to you. Any time frame you see on CIC website is a wish and not always reality. Today you are seeing 17 months there, by April, it will change to 10 months then in June you will see 24 months there. Not even CIC can predict how things will work as FSW program has taught all of us so don't rely on timing seen on their website.
Secondly, that once you apply for spouse visa does not mean you will get it. As rightly pointed out by Guyman, you risk loosing your own PR visa for failing to update AVO with your marraige which clearly happened before you received PPR. You wil find it very difficult to convince the authorities that you hadn't any ulterior motive by not informing them before they issued your own visa. Don't forget that their every communication states, 'you must immediately inform us of any change to your status or family compostion.'
Third, you wont be able to sponsor your wife from US if you are not based in Canada yourself. Don't forget that you have a 'permanent resident' visa, key word being '
resident'. If you had
Canadian citizenship, that would have been a different story as you can sponsor your father, mother, wife, children while living in any part of the world. But with your PR status, you will have to first prove that you have been a true PR and in 'good standing' too like I mentioned in my earlier post.
All the best.
