Inland spousal sponsorship - does she need to renew visitor visa?

[vinotintazo]

Hi All

My Wife is currently here in Canada, we got married overseas in JAN 2014, then she applied for a tourist visa around July to come here.

She got approved for a multi-entry Visa that expires in 2017. She's been here for a month and has a return ticket to leave Canada on November, but she wants to stay.

They didn't stamp her passport with a date to leave. so I assume she can stay for 6 months (correct me if I'm wrong). We wish to apply for an inland sponsorship, since process time is faster when compared to Outland.

I'm a Canadian Citizen, Working Full-Time, She is form Venezuela

I have a few questions in regards to the application.

1) If we apply inland, she needs to stay here, for that do we will need to extend her stay? (her visa expires on 2017)

2) We don't want her to lose status, how do we avoid it? apply for an OWP along with inland sponsorship?

Any Suggestions Would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks!

Edit: I created a new thread for this questions if you want to also answer there.

thread: canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/inland-spousal-sponsorship-how-to-keep-status-with-a-visitor-visa-t242954.0.html