Did they ask you for the relationship questionnaire, spouse birth certificate, PCC, medical etc?
Armstrong17: In my case, the following (in italics below) is the excerpt from the mail asking for documents. Hope it helps you!
"... If you are the principal applicant of a permanent residence application already in process, you could add your spouse or common-law partner, dependent children, and their dependent children to your application, even if they were listed as a non-accompanying dependent in the initial application.
To do so, we invite you to send your add-on request through the IRCC webform available on our website. You can attach the following forms and documents in the field reserved to that effect:
A new Generic Application Form for Canada (IMM 0008)* with supporting documents,
(If applicable) A Schedule A - Background/Declaration (IMM 5669) form,
(If applicable) An Additional Dependants/Declaration (IMM 0008DEP) form,
(If applicable) A signed Additional Family Information (IMM 5406) form,
A copy of the birth certificate, marriage certificate or proof of common-law relationship,
A copy of the family member's valid passport,
Police certificates for all countries where the family member over the age of 18 has lived for more than 6 months since turning 18,
A letter of explanation, and
If applicable, the proof of payment."
Basically, our case is relatively unique. Me & my husband both are currently on PGWP. We had 2 seperate CEC PR files under process before we got married. We both received seperate invites in Sept 2022 draw and we filled out application independently. When we got married in Nov2022, we raised 2 seperate we forms for both of our applications to IRCC declaring our marriage and clearly mentioned that we would not add the spouse as dependent as the spouse has own file under process.
Armstrong17: Okay, that's good that you two had raised separate webforms mentioning that you two didn't want to add spouse as dependent in your respective applications. May I ask, did you two get response/acknowledgement on the two webforms. If yes, what was it?
My file stills shows in process... Nothing has moved since bio & medical completed, however, my husband's tracker shows everything complete but he received this notice last week mentioning documents to be submitted to add the spouse to existing application. The list that you had shared seems similar but it had other documentation requirements as well alongwith relationship questionnaire and also pictures of wedding and trip events etc. Basically, our case was so straight forward that we both were expecting individual approvals but now this notice confused us.
On top of it, they need this all to be shared in less than 5mb file.
One of the immigration lawyers I consulted online mentioned IRCC has made a mistake in asking you for those documents as your case doesn't require adding spouse so raise a web form. Whereas, when we called IRCC phone line, the agent mentioned your previous web form was very clear still you got the notice so you should submit all documents now rather than just filling the web form.
Armstrong17: After reading the two paragraphs above, the following is what I think you may want to do:
- Can your husband reply to the email received by him that asked for additional documents? I mean, does it accept reply? (Most probably, in this case, the email would have come from a "do not reply" email-box.) If he can, indeed, reply, please communicate your concern by replying to that mail.
- If IRCC has requested your husband to send additional documents despite your previous webforms, I think it makes sense to send those documents to them because, at least, this way the ball would keep rolling; otherwise, the file could linger in "waiting for documents" status for an indefinite time. My suggestion would be to, definitely, supply those requested documents, plus, add a letter of explanation just at the start mentioning the specific need in your case, citing dates of the Webforms already raised in this regard. Your husband may want to also include your application number, your UCI, etc. as well, that will help the officer in tracing more details, if needed. Ensure that the subject-line clearly conveys your specific need/request.
- You didn't tell whether IRCC asked your husband to upload the additional documents via Webform or My CIC account. In my case, it was Webform. Nevertheless, I understand that the 5 MB constraint is very restrictive, and I struggled for around 7 hours before I could upload documents via Webforms. I can give some tips here:
- Use the following page for compression, as it is very helpful: https://online2pdf.com/
- Compress pictures to a good extent - IRCC doesn't need HD quality pictures!
- Compress forms to an extent that they are legible.
- You can use two separate Webforms (assuming IRCC asked your husband to use this way), if you find that one Webform would just not work with you. I, myself, used two Webforms, and got acknowledgement from IRCC for both, too.
- I hope that you are aware of the following tracker. It provides you more information than your My CIC account, and my be helpful to you. https://ircc-tracker-suivi.apps.cic.gc.ca/en/login
Not sure what should be our next step.
