Ponga said:If you applied in Sep 2013 and were approved as the sponsor in Oct 2013 (even though you wrote Oct 2014), there's no way this was an Inland application. You must have filed an Outland application while you were `waiting' Inland (in Canada).
I feel like an idiot, but yes I think we must have applied outland, in the end. My husband, like I said, is American and we live within 10 miles of the US border on the Canada side. We sent in his application once his work in Asia was complete. He did find some temporary and part time work in the US in the meantime and had a temporary visitor visa to live with us in Canada. Sorry for the confusion, folks. Our correspondence has been with the office in Ottawa.