My husband and I met in 2010 and we have been together for 6 years. He came here with a work visa that expired 5 years ago.
Together we have a 3 years old daughter, and plenty of evidence of our relationship. We got married in 2014 and now we have our application just about ready to be sent.(the reason we did not send it before was because of financial issue.) The thing is that a couple of weeks ago CBSA called my home and talked to him, they told him to meet with them in our local CBSA office. Once there they seized his passport, told him he was under arrest,(but didn't take any enforcement action against him and told him that this won't show in any police system or any of that, what I assumed is that it was maybe a protocol thing to say he was under arrest, I mean I don't know.) They also told him that he has to check with the CBSA every 2 weeks, and if we move we must let them know. Then they told us that they were gonna give us the opportunity to send the application for PR. They told us to get everything we need, then send the application and once we do that, we must call them and they then will contact CIC and ask them to take our application from the bottom to the top to see if we are approved in principal (basically to see if I meet the requirements to be a sponsor.) The officer said that if we are approved in principal then he will basically leave us alone until the application is processed and if My husband receives permanent resident status he will get his passport back but he he does not he will have to leave the country. He also told us that once we send our application for PR he will meet with us and this time there may be a counsel who will likely issue my husband an exclusion order but since the application will be in before that happens, my husband does not have to leave until CIC determines if I meet the requirements to sponsor him, and if I do, then we will have until he gets his PR or he is refused. He said that CIC will want to know whether we are a genuine couple or not.
My questions are, will CIC know about this meeting with CBSA? We asked the officer we met with and asked him if we should write a note telling them about it, but he said that what we did during that meeting has nothing to do with our application. I asked him that if we don't tell CIC, won't they see that we are hiding something or we misrepresented ourselves, but he said that they won't.
A guy I know told us that we should disclose this information with CIC but we are so confused that we don't know what to do.
By the way, the reason my husband stayed was because I almost died and had no one to look after me, and he was the only person there with me during an entire year of hardship I went through. After that we struggled financially since he is not allowed to work. However, I never took any welfare or assistance from the government.
Together we have a 3 years old daughter, and plenty of evidence of our relationship. We got married in 2014 and now we have our application just about ready to be sent.(the reason we did not send it before was because of financial issue.) The thing is that a couple of weeks ago CBSA called my home and talked to him, they told him to meet with them in our local CBSA office. Once there they seized his passport, told him he was under arrest,(but didn't take any enforcement action against him and told him that this won't show in any police system or any of that, what I assumed is that it was maybe a protocol thing to say he was under arrest, I mean I don't know.) They also told him that he has to check with the CBSA every 2 weeks, and if we move we must let them know. Then they told us that they were gonna give us the opportunity to send the application for PR. They told us to get everything we need, then send the application and once we do that, we must call them and they then will contact CIC and ask them to take our application from the bottom to the top to see if we are approved in principal (basically to see if I meet the requirements to be a sponsor.) The officer said that if we are approved in principal then he will basically leave us alone until the application is processed and if My husband receives permanent resident status he will get his passport back but he he does not he will have to leave the country. He also told us that once we send our application for PR he will meet with us and this time there may be a counsel who will likely issue my husband an exclusion order but since the application will be in before that happens, my husband does not have to leave until CIC determines if I meet the requirements to sponsor him, and if I do, then we will have until he gets his PR or he is refused. He said that CIC will want to know whether we are a genuine couple or not.
My questions are, will CIC know about this meeting with CBSA? We asked the officer we met with and asked him if we should write a note telling them about it, but he said that what we did during that meeting has nothing to do with our application. I asked him that if we don't tell CIC, won't they see that we are hiding something or we misrepresented ourselves, but he said that they won't.
A guy I know told us that we should disclose this information with CIC but we are so confused that we don't know what to do.
By the way, the reason my husband stayed was because I almost died and had no one to look after me, and he was the only person there with me during an entire year of hardship I went through. After that we struggled financially since he is not allowed to work. However, I never took any welfare or assistance from the government.
