Inland spousal sponsorship question

[hiep3010]

Including your wife on your PR application isn't inland or outland because it's not sponsorship. She doesn't need to be in Canada to be included on your application. However, if you marry her now, she can apply for an open work permit based on your work permit so she may be able to join you if she gets it. If immigration thinks she is a risk of overstay, she might be denied an open permit in which case she might have to wait until you both get PR.

When you include your wife on your PR application from the get-go, you do not have to prove that your relationship is genuine. You just have to provide your marriage certificate. It is only when you sponsor that you have to prove your relationship.

So that means I'll include her in my PR application, and her open work permit application as well right? I'm gonna go back to Vietnam at the beginning of next year, and probably get a marriage certificate. When I get back, i'll send applications altogether, and she either get the open work permit early and come here or get denied and have to wait for a year for her PR just like me.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, and thanks again!!!

 

[Leon]

So that means I'll include her in my PR application, and her open work permit application as well right? I'm gonna go back to Vietnam at the beginning of next year, and probably get a marriage certificate. When I get back, i'll send applications altogether, and she either get the open work permit early and come here or get denied and have to wait for a year for her PR just like me.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, and thanks again!!!

You should not send your PR application together with her application for an open work permit. They are separate applications and processed at different locations. The only time you send an open work permit application together with a PR application is if you were sponsoring her inland. Then they would be processed in the same office.

For your wife's work permit, you would apply for it at the Canadian embassy in or nearest to her home country. They would need a copy of the marriage certificate as well as your work permit and some info about her and how she just wants to stay with you and will not overstay in Canada.

 

[hiep3010]

You should not send your PR application together with her application for an open work permit. They are separate applications and processed at different locations. The only time you send an open work permit application together with a PR application is if you were sponsoring her inland. Then they would be processed in the same office.

For your wife's work permit, you would apply for it at the Canadian embassy in or nearest to her home country. They would need a copy of the marriage certificate as well as your work permit and some info about her and how she just wants to stay with you and will not overstay in Canada.

Okay, I see, so she'll need to send her application to Canadian embassy in Vietnam after we married. And there's a small problem, my work permit will expire in Jan 2015, her work permit will have the same expiration date with me if she got it. I can apply for bridged open work permit but what about her because PR won't be issued by then.

Thanks

 

[Leon]

She would also be able to extend her work permit based on your bridged work permit. You should apply for her extension and your bridge permit at the same time.

 

[hiep3010]

She would also be able to extend her work permit based on your bridged work permit. You should apply for her extension and your bridge permit at the same time.

Thank you so much for your help!!!