Getting married before landing

[Leon]

You can leave Canada again 15 days after landing. You can apply for a PR travel document in order to return to Canada.

However, if you will be receiving your PR card at a friends address, there is no law that forbids your friend from mailing it or having it couriered to you. (For those who say this is against the law, please link to the law in question because I do not know of one).

When adding a spouse before landing, you do not have to prove that it is a genuine marriage because you are immigrating together. However, a spouse with a back ground problem or a medical problem can prevent you from immigrating. The pros are that it generally doesn't take as long and you go to Canada together.

If you opt to land first and sponsor your spouse later, you are separated for longer because in most cases, the spouse has to stay in your home country while you stay in Canada as a sponsor, that is unless your spouse can get a visit visa. The pros are that your spouse can not be denied because of an excessive demand medical condition. The cons are that you have to prove that it is a genuine marriage and that as a sponsor, you are responsible for your sponsored spouse for 3 years after they get their PR. Should your spouse leave you and go on welfare or disability in Canada during this time, the Canadian government will come after you to refund them the money.

 

[PreetK]

Hi Leon

Could you please help to understand below

" if your spouse has a problem, you could both be denied."

Does it mean regarding Medical issues ? what if spouse is not working ?

 

[PreetK]

In continuation to my post,

As an Indian , we can show the below documents in order to prove marriage authenticity

1. Religious marriage certificate
2. Court Marriage Certificate
3. Wedding cards from both families
4. Wedding and Ceremony videos
5. Both spouse pics during functions and Family outing

I personally believe above docs are sufficient to prove marriage authenticity

Any views ?

 

[mittul]

My statement for PR card currioring was from the posts of the other members that "it is a crime".

See, i am not sure but it is better to double check everything..

Best of luck.

 

[Leon]

Hi Leon

Could you please help to understand below

" if your spouse has a problem, you could both be denied."

Does it mean regarding Medical issues ? what if spouse is not working ?

If your spouse has a problem like a criminal past or a serious medical problem. Not working is not a problem. Even a medical problem that is not serious now can potentially become serious later and immigration may deny the application based on that and if you are already married and are applying together, you both get denied. However, if you already got your PR before marriage, they will not take it away from you so in the case that your wife has a criminal past that comes out during the application process, they will deny her and if she has an excessive demand medical problem, they will not deny her because she is a spouse getting sponsored.

 

[Leon]

In continuation to my post,

As an Indian , we can show the below documents in order to prove marriage authenticity

1. Religious marriage certificate
2. Court Marriage Certificate
3. Wedding cards from both families
4. Wedding and Ceremony videos
5. Both spouse pics during functions and Family outing

I personally believe above docs are sufficient to prove marriage authenticity

Any views ?

If you are applying together, that is adding wife to application, there would not be a problem. If you land first and then sponsor, they may ask for further proof of your relationship because if you have entered into a scam marriage, you would also have all the things stated in 1. through 5. so they would ask for something extra to prove your relationship like how you met, your communication to each other, proof of gifts given and after you go to Canada to sponsor her, your email communication to her while is is waiting.

 

[PreetK]

Hi Leon and all ,

Thanks a lot for your help

Yeah its my choice should I land prior to marriage or should add would be spouse before landing , as both have pros and cons

But I got to know adding a spouse before landing is bit risky as one have to surrender the visa

 

[Rob_TO]

PR card currioring is crime as per the law.

Completely 100% wrong. It is not a crime. If it was a crime there would be some law in Canada's criminal code, or even some simple official statement from the government somewhere... but there isn't.

The only "law" around PR cards is that CIC will not issue them to an address outside Canada. But once you have a card, Canada doesn't care if you mail it anywhere.

Saying it's against the law is gross misinformation and just ends up scaring people even though it's completely false.

 

[PreetK]

Hello Seniors,

I recently received PP with visa stamped by God grace

Now, my actual VO was New Delhi however during the processing of my file , my file was transfered to Warsaw

Also in my visa, its mentioned visa issue at Warsaw VO

Now , in couple of month I be getting married

Please help me to response on below answer would be very very thankful to you

1. If I land prior to my marriage and then later on after my marriage when I will sponsor my would be spouse , then which VO will process spouse file , NDVO , WVO or Ottawa ? and what is the avergae time they my would be spouse will get Visa ?

2. If I land post my marriage and inform CIC before landing , then in this scenario which Visa office fill process me and my would be spouse file ?

3. Lets say , I sponsor my spouse post marriage and in parallel Can I be able to sponsor my parents ?

 

[Rob_TO]

1. If I land prior to my marriage and then later on after my marriage when I will sponsor my would be spouse , then which VO will process spouse file , NDVO , WVO or Ottawa ? and what is the avergae time they my would be spouse will get Visa ?

This will depended entirely on your spouse. If she's Indian and living in India, then most likely ND would process her outland PR app. But it depends on what her citizenship is and where she's residing.

Since you are a PR, you must be residing in Canada during her PR app processing.

2. If I land post my marriage and inform CIC before landing , then in this scenario which Visa office fill process me and my would be spouse file ?

If you get married before landing, you need to inform your current visa office (Warsaw). They will cancel any PR visa/COPR issued to you as single. Your wife will be added to your app, she will have to do police checks/medical/etc, and then Warsaw would later approve you as a married couple and you would both get PR visas/COPRs together.

3. Lets say , I sponsor my spouse post marriage and in parallel Can I be able to sponsor my parents ?

In general yes you can sponsor parents along with your spouse's PR app. The 2 are independent applications.

However, you need to meet the qualifications to sponsor parents so will need to have 3 years of Canadian income tax returns meeting LICO amount for your family size. Your family size should include your wife even if she's not a PR yet.

 

[PreetK]

Dear RoB,

could u please advise for option non 2, how much time VO will take ( on an average ) to re-issue the visa to me and my spouse considering all requested docs are in line

 

[clinchy]

Hello,

Who can tell please how long does it take to add common law partner on visa application before landing ? I had COPR and visa but returned as I had to add my fiancee who I will marry in summer, before original visa will expire - August. We sent medical checks in April. How things should happen from here : a new visa will be issue or it will be the same visa I had - validity August. Was someone in this situation ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[rambopg]

Hello,

Who can tell please how long does it take to add common law partner on visa application before landing ? I had COPR and visa but returned as I had to add my fiancee who I will marry in summer, before original visa will expire - August. We sent medical checks in April. How things should happen from here : a new visa will be issue or it will be the same visa I had - validity August. Was someone in this situation ?

Thanks in advance.

They will issue a different visa to u. But the validity of that visa will still be August (due to ur medical validity). If u do a new medical then they can issue u visa with a longer expiry (one year from medical date).

 

[clinchy]

Thank you for reply, rambopg.

These would be the options indeed, I just don t know at this point how will end. If they will wait for us to send them the marriage certificate ( end of June ) still my fiancee is examined like common law partner or soon after I will provide them the marriage certificate they will issue the visa but very short before expire.. Or they will tell me to repeat the medicals but in that case when my fiancce get the form end of March, to do the medicals, they didn t send me the same to do the medicals just to her.. so considering all of these I don t know how and when will end.. Maybe someone was in a similar situation to share his / her experience..

Thank you.

 

[Uchiha Itachi]

Thank you for reply, rambopg.

These would be the options indeed, I just don t know at this point how will end. If they will wait for us to send them the marriage certificate ( end of June ) still my fiancee is examined like common law partner or soon after I will provide them the marriage certificate they will issue the visa but very short before expire.. Or they will tell me to repeat the medicals but in that case when my fiancce get the form end of March, to do the medicals, they didn t send me the same to do the medicals just to her.. so considering all of these I don t know how and when will end.. Maybe someone was in a similar situation to share his / her experience..

Thank you.

Hi!

Does anyone know if there is an interview for non-accompanying spouse? I recently received by PR visa and COPR but got married before I landed. I added my spouse as non-accompanying spouse. Will we require an interview?