Hello New here - Question

[KimD]

Hello.

I am sponsoring my common-law partner to live in Canada, I'm a Canadian Citizen. I'm putting all our application in the envelope now but I have a couple questions. Hopefully someone can help me out since we have to send this in on Friday!

Here's my situation. I started my own company about a year ago so I don't have much income coming in. My common law partner is from France, he's been in Canada for a year and a half as a visitor with no work permit so he hasn't had any income. We do have advantages that we do not pay rent and bills, family has been very supportive of our situation. : A lot of work I do is payed to me in cash. What am I suppose to hand in to prove to them I have some income coming in? I am very scared we will be denied due to money. Is it possible for my father to co-sign our sponsorship application? I'm not sure how this would all work.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. THANK YOU all so much for your help!

 

[mikeymyke]

Hi Kim

To prove your income, you should provide tax returns, receipts of cash being paid. Even if you were paid by cash, by law you're supposed to be reporting your income, so you need to be careful that CIC, and eventually CRA, doesn't find out about that you own a business, but haven't been reporting income.

 

[northernlights]

Hello.

I am sponsoring my common-law partner to live in Canada, I'm a Canadian Citizen. I'm putting all our application in the envelope now but I have a couple questions. Hopefully someone can help me out since we have to send this in on Friday!

Here's my situation. I started my own company about a year ago so I don't have much income coming in. My common law partner is from France, he's been in Canada for a year and a half as a visitor with no work permit so he hasn't had any income. We do have advantages that we do not pay rent and bills, family has been very supportive of our situation. : A lot of work I do is payed to me in cash. What am I suppose to hand in to prove to them I have some income coming in? I am very scared we will be denied due to money. Is it possible for my father to co-sign our sponsorship application? I'm not sure how this would all work.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. THANK YOU all so much for your help!

though quantity of income do not matter in spousal sponsorship....but you should file your personal, business and gst returns on time.

 

[KimD]

Thank you all for your replies ... I do file everything with the government. I just thought I should print out my bank statements and a lot of that money wasn't put in my bank account.

I need to send the application by friday and I still haven't received my Option C. I'm not sure what to do? Can I just send in my income tax forms that have been filed? bank statements?

 

[northernlights]

Thank you all for your replies ... I do file everything with the government. I just thought I should print out my bank statements and a lot of that money wasn't put in my bank account.

I need to send the application by friday and I still haven't received my Option C. I'm not sure what to do? Can I just send in my income tax forms that have been filed? bank statements?

wait..you will recive within 3-4 days

 

[KimD]

It's been 2 weeks! I called them again and they said it's been sent. I don't know what to do. My common law's visitor's visa expires on friday. Should we apply for extension of visit so we don't get in trouble?

 

[northernlights]

It's been 2 weeks! I called them again and they said it's been sent. I don't know what to do. My common law's visitor's visa expires on friday. Should we apply for extension of visit so we don't get in trouble?

I live in most northern part of Canada Nunavut..i recd it in 6 days from winnipeg..why dont you?

 

[agarand8]

Option c is one of the most important documents IMO for sponsorship approval. Without it the might return your application or do a manual search to find out if you collected welfare which will increase your processing time by about 2 more months. I would wait for it.

Maybe someone could confirm.... But I didn't think that inland applicants had implied status while their application was processing. Do they not still need to have a valid visa? I could be wrong, someone can correct me and let the OP know if she needs to extend the visitors visa.

 

[northernlights]

Option c is one of the most important documents IMO for sponsorship approval. Without it the might return your application or do a manual search to find out if you collected welfare which will increase your processing time by about 2 more months. I would wait for it.

Maybe someone could confirm.... But I didn't think that inland applicants had implied status while their application was processing. Do they not still need to have a valid visa? I could be wrong, someone can correct me and let the OP know if she needs to extend the visitors visa.

If your notice of assessment have good income...then it is ok too...if a person is filing 85000 T1, obviously he/she is not getting any welfare...

 

[agarand8]

If your notice of assessment have good income...then it is ok too...if a person is filing 85000 T1, obviously he/she is not getting any welfare...

Sure but the OP talks about how they started their own business and don't make very much money from it, and the foreign spouse doesn't work at all. So I'm thinking they don't make 85K/year.

 

[KimD]

agarand18

thank you! He's on a visitor's visa now which expires on friday. The application has not yet been sent. We have been waiting for papers like the Option C. We are thinking or extending his stay for a couple weeks to be safe. Should we do this to be safe?

 

[northernlights]

agarand18

thank you! He's on a visitor's visa now which expires on friday. The application has not yet been sent. We have been waiting for papers like the Option C. We are thinking or extending his stay for a couple weeks to be safe. Should we do this to be safe?

i think..if visitor visa is expiring, then she should go back...do not do anything illegal..otherwise the future processings can be delayed

 

[katester]

This is not what you want to hear.... but legally speaking it may be best for your common-law partner to go back to his country until you have received sponsorship approval. If you do, then your partner will be to apply outland. If you choose to have him stay and apply inland -- and his extension is denied (possible since he has been there a year and a half they may consider it overstaying and that comes with a possible 1 year ban from entering Canada.) If the extension is denied and he stays, then your entire application can be compromised. I know hindsight is always 20/20, but your application should have been in a long time ago. Waiting to mail it the day his visa expires is leading you down a slippery slop. These applications are not anything to mess with. They are extremely stressful, they take forever to get move from one stage to the next and after waiting 7 months to a year your app could still be denied. If I were you, I would have the partner go back to his country and apply outland. I know this sucks. Trust me -- this is what we are doing right now for similar reasons. But if he were to get banned then all of this would be a waste of time and money..

I have not lived with my husband in over a year. Such we visit... but he lives in Canada and I in the states. We were almost eligible for common-law but our situation changed and he had to go back to Canada. I then quit my job to visit him for 5 months. And I left Last June... I just now got a Decision Made on my application and I could not be happier to be reunited with my love. However the reason I had to come back to my country was they did not extend my visitors visa. It may see like they will never know ...but once you send an application in to immigration they will know! It is a tough decision to make. My husband and I cried and fought and yelled during our hard conversation about what we needed to do. But we knew that we were both adults who could make it on our own for this "short" amount of time. We knew that our love could withstand the distance and that it was not forever -- it was just until legal. Thinking about telling your partner to go back home will make your stomach turn and you instantly said "hell no" i'm sure, but we can not have our cake and eat it too.... sacrifices need to be made some times. And the horrible "what if's" could keep you separated even longer!

 

[KimD]

He is not in Canada illegally. We have had an extension of visa. We had a lawyer explain to us how to do it. He can send in his application even if his visitors visa is expired. To my knowledge we aren't doing anything wrong. The application is all done, just waiting for the mail.

 

[agarand8]

He is not in Canada illegally. We have had an extension of visa. We had a lawyer explain to us how to do it. He can send in his application even if his visitors visa is expired. To my knowledge we aren't doing anything wrong. The application is all done, just waiting for the mail.

Not until after Friday... I believe that katester is confirming my initial question I had. Just because you are applying inland doesn't mean your spouse is automatically allowed to stay in canada while the application processes. You still need to have a valid visa of some sort or the spouse could get kicked out and your application would essentially be thrown in the garbage.