Is it worthy withdrawing my application for PR under common law?

[GilbertVan]

Hi guys,
Newbie here and I have some questions hopefully anyone could answer.

I submitted PR application for my girlfriend last year July and CIC asked us to provided some additional police certificate in August. Since then we didn't hear anything back from them.

Lately my girlfriend received invitation of ExpressEntry because she got another degree and her points raised a lot.

Now I'm wondering if we should accept the express entry invitation and apply her PR under that
OR
we still under the family class.

There are few factors we are considering right now:
1. Could we get refund if we withdraw?
2. If we want to, who should withdraw the application? Me as a sponsor or her as a primary applicant?
3. Which one is faster and more reliable? Since we already submitted application on July and it almost half years from now, does it worth we withdraw it and start another application?
I know EE is pretty fast and it usually can get done within 6 months.

Any comments or opinions are appreciate. If anyone has similar situation, that will be great.

Thanks for your help.

 

[FrostiRose]

Hi guys,
Newbie here and I have some questions hopefully anyone could answer.

I submitted PR application for my girlfriend last year July and CIC asked us to provided some additional police certificate in August. Since then we didn't hear anything back from them.

Lately my girlfriend received invitation of ExpressEntry because she got another degree and her points raised a lot.

Now I'm wondering if we should accept the express entry invitation and apply her PR under that
OR
we still under the family class.

There are few factors we are considering right now:
1. Could we get refund if we withdraw?
2. If we want to, who should withdraw the application? Me as a sponsor or her as a primary applicant?
3. Which one is faster and more reliable? Since we already submitted application on July and it almost half years from now, does it worth we withdraw it and start another application?
I know EE is pretty fast and it usually can get done within 6 months.

Any comments or opinions are appreciate. If anyone has similar situation, that will be great.

Thanks for your help.

You don't have to withdraw your family class application in order to do an EE application, it's perfectly fine to have both going. I'm not sure, but I don't think you can get a refund. Maybe on the Right for Permanent Residence Fee? I don't know....

 

[ahmedwaly]

I guess the sponsorship application will be done faster , in case you withdraw will only get the RPRF fee and lose other processing fees . After PCC is mean near end already , she can apply for EE side by side but will pay fees again too .

 

[GilbertVan]

Hi,
thanks you guys for answering.
I made a phone call with CIC, they suggested I don't withdraw I get one of them approved.
Then withdraw the other one.

But yeah, I can only get around $490 back as they started processing my case.

 

[KBH]

Hi,
thanks you guys for answering.
I made a phone call with CIC, they suggested I don't withdraw I get one of them approved.
Then withdraw the other one.

But yeah, I can only get around $490 back as they started processing my case.

I would agree with that assessment. It anything were to go wrong with the EE app, you would likely regret withdrawing the common law app. Nothing wrong with having 2 apps under 2 different streams and no rule against it.