HOW TO START SPONSORING SPOUSE STEP BY STEP

[Yani26]

Read all the forms and all the instruction manual. Slowly, and carefully. There is no way around this. Read them all. You are fortunate you found this forum, it is absolutely invaluable. Ask quests whenever you have them.

Ok step by step (anyone please feel free to add to this as needed):

Gather Sponsors documents
1. PR card copy
2. Passport copy
3. Letter from employer
4. Option-c
5. Pay stubs (if required)
Fill all the forms as sponsor and sign as required.

Gather Prinicipal applicants documents

1. Birth certificate
2. Passport copy
3. Marriage certificate
4. Pcc
5. Upfront medicals are required earlier in outland as it was mentioned in cic site

Another important thing pay your fees correctly not less nor more

Fill all forms by principal applicant and sign as required

Step 1: Get all your documents in order. Birth certificate, marriage cert, police cert, option C, etc. Some documents that are not in english will need to be translated by a certified translator.

Step 2. Fill in all the forms. write N/A in every spot where you dont fill in anything. Dont leave anything blank. Dont leave any time gaps in the background declaration. Dont make any mistakes. Check your spouses forms over with a fine tooth comb, have your spouse check over yours. These forms need to be perfect. After they are all perfect. Set them aside for a day, then look at them again and make sure you didnt miss anything.

Step 3. Photos. Get your wedding photos together and photos from all your vacations and your honey moon. Also get the passport photos you need to send with the application.

Keep copies of everything in a well organized folder. Dont send CIC anything that you dont keep a copy of.

Step 4: pay the fee and keep the receipt.

Step 5. send the application by registered mail.

Step 6. You shoud get AOR (acknowledge of receipt) this is very important because it has yours and your spouses UCI numbers which let you log in and check your application status. These are the only numbners you can use to login to eCAS, despite what eCAS says none of the other numbers (like receipt number) will work.

Step 7: after that theres a lot of waiting.

Step 8: they sometimes call an interview

Step 9: this is around the time they will ask for medicals. So you would do them and have them sent in.

Step 10: AIP: Approval in principal. Letter or email. This is the end of "stage 1". It means the sponsor qualifies as a sponsor. You can now apply for Open Work Permit or study permit. Its also the time when some provinces allow you to apply for medical coverage. Depends on province, please find out the rules for your specific province.

Step 11: File is transfered to local office. You will get a letter about this, and then later a letter from the local office asking for a landing interview.

Step 12: Landing interview

Step 13: wait for PR card in the mail.

What did I forget? What did I mix up? Am I ready to open my own consulting agency yet? lol

Optional Step 14: apply to see your case notes under access to information.

Ho what do you mean by UPFRONT MEDICALS???? and thanks for this steps..its very clear to me now.. ;D

 

[Zarilenth]

Ho what do you mean by UPFRONT MEDICALS???? and thanks for this steps..its very clear to me now.. ;D

Do the medicals before you send in the application.

 

[Yani26]

Do the medicals before you send in the application.

yah like i have the results already and send it with the forms?????

 

[Zarilenth]

yah like i have the results already and send it with the forms?????

Yes, exactly.

 

[Yani26]

Yes, exactly.

okay thanks so much!

 

[QuebecOkie]

Info on medical exams and finding a CIC panel physician here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/medical/medexams-perm.asp

With an up-front medical exam, you won't actually get the results, I don't believe (I believe some docs will give you the option to pay more to get your results?). They send the results directly to CIC. You will get proof that you completed the exam from the doctor's office, and you include that proof in your application. That proof lets them match your exam results to your application.

 

[reyvico]

Hi..I left Canada 5 months after i became a permanent resident here..and then i got married in the philippines..

Hi yani! We're planning to get married asap, is it cheaper and easier to get married in the philippines? are you currently working on your documents now? Can i also send you personal message? Thank you for sharing...

 

[reyvico]

ULYA: This is the process to sponsor if the sponsor is a PR or citizen. If it's for a spouse of a foreign worker or student, it's a completely different process (check the International Students or Foreign Workers section of the forum).

reyvico: Just to check, did you and your partner live together for 12 months before you landed? If not, then you're fine. As a PR, you need to remain in Canada throughout the process. There is no minimum as to how long you must have been in Canada. You do need to be either legally married or common-law before you sponsor them though.

Thank you miles! You guys helping me alot,

 

[Gumby749]

The computer error message means that you need to use Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader to fill in the form. You get that message sometimes if you are using Preview under Mac or some different programs. Some .pdf programs will work okay with the CIC forms, others won't.

 

[ramkris]

The computer error message means that you need to use Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader to fill in the form. You get that message sometimes if you are using Preview under Mac or some different programs. Some .pdf programs will work okay with the CIC forms, others won't.

try opening those forms frm Internet explorer or firefox they open with out error

 

[Yani26]

Hi yani! We're planning to get married asap, is it cheaper and easier to get married in the philippines? are you currently working on your documents now? Can i also send you personal message? Thank you for sharing...

Im still waiting for my hubby to have his passport in a week..and hopefully start..sure..we could be buddies here..we are both starting which is perfect ;D ;D

 

[gettingcrazy]

Im still waiting for my hubby to have his passport in a week..and hopefully start..sure..we could be buddies here..we are both starting which is perfect ;D ;D

Hi sis, when are you planning to submit your application?

 

[greenalienpics]

Hello,
I hope someone can answer me this one.
I see the inland application can be sponsor a spouse and a child. and it says if they livewith me in canada.
We are outside canada now, but we wanna go live in canada, doind the application outside canada takes time about 15 months or so. Anyway can we go on a diferent kind of visa or entry form and then once in canada we apply for sponsorhip. please step by step. and thank you so much.

 

[calvinw06]

Resign yourelf to the fact that you will need to become an absolute expert at spousal sponsorship immigration. By the time you are done you will be able to open your own immigration consulting agency, thats how much you will have learned. I've been doing this for a year and half and i'm still confused but i am also 10x smarter than when I started.

Read all the forms and all the instruction manual. Slowly, and carefully. There is no way around this. Read them all. You are fortunate you found this forum, it is absolutely invaluable. Ask quests whenever you have them.

Ok step by step (anyone please feel free to add to this as needed):

Step 1: Get all your documents in order. Birth certificate, marriage cert, police cert, option C, etc. Some documents that are not in english will need to be translated by a certified translator.

For inland, Do NOT do your medical first. CIC recommends doing the medical first but its a lie. That was when wait times were less than a year. If you do your meds they may expire before they ever get used. So wait for CIC to ask for meds.

Step 2. Fill in all the forms. write N/A in every spot where you dont fill in anything. Dont leave anything blank. Dont leave any time gaps in the background declaration. Dont make any mistakes. Check your spouses forms over with a fine tooth comb, have your spouse check over yours. These forms need to be perfect. After they are all perfect. Set them aside for a day, then look at them again and make sure you didnt miss anything.

Step 3. Photos. Get your wedding photos together and photos from all your vacations and your honey moon. Also get the passport photos you need to send with the application.

Keep copies of everything in a well organized folder. Dont send CIC anything that you dont keep a copy of.

Step 4: pay the fee and keep the receipt.

Step 5. send the application by registered mail.

Step 6. You shoud get AOR (acknowledge of receipt) this is very important because it has yours and your spouses UCI numbers which let you log in and check your application status. These are the only numbners you can use to login to eCAS, despite what eCAS says none of the other numbers (like receipt number) will work.

Step 7: after that theres a lot of waiting.

Step 8: they sometimes call an interview

Step 9: this is around the time they will ask for medicals. So you would do them and have them sent in.

Step 10: AIP: Approval in principal. Letter or email. This is the end of "stage 1". It means the sponsor qualifies as a sponsor. You can now apply for Open Work Permit or study permit. Its also the time when some provinces allow you to apply for medical coverage. Depends on province, please find out the rules for your specific province.

Step 11: File is transfered to local office. You will get a letter about this, and then later a letter from the local office asking for a landing interview.

Step 12: Landing interview

Step 13: wait for PR card in the mail.

What did I forget? What did I mix up? Am I ready to open my own consulting agency yet? lol

Optional Step 14: apply to see your case notes under access to information.

Very old post up above but for Step 13 waiting for PR to arrive in mail. If me the sponsor(husband) is sponsoring my wife. Is she waiting for the PR to arrive to her mail? Honestly I'm not sure how she even receive letters now even in her country which is in Venezuela. Very messed up and disorganised country now. If CIC is sending PR to Venezuela. How do I know it's going to get the safely and not lost? The president of Venezuela is such a goof ball and idiot. How can I believe that any medical doctors recognised by CIC are legit doctors and aren't crooks? Also samething for the police record check. The instructions pdf link for my wife to look for police record check is also broken now as of today. Is this cause of the country's situation and CIC have no idea how to update this information? You just can't trust police officers in Venezuela cause some are also looting and killing. I'm not even sure if Canadians are even working in Venezuela Embassy in Caracas now since its most dangerous city in the world now. Why would Canada risk their own for work like this? Hard to trust whats going on. Not sure how other 3rd world countries deal with these type of questions I'm asking. I know Venezuela isn't the only most violent city on our planet. Let me know some other thoughts please. Probably going to be copying and pasting this similar posting to other topics also.

 

[ramkris]

Last step might be PR card after landing in canada.It will come to your canadian adress you provide to cic