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Please Help: Extending Wife's Visitor's Visa While Awaiting Permanent Residency

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jneva053

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Hello. I hope someone can help us.

My wife, son and I are now in Canada waiting for my Wife's permanent residency (PR) through family sponsorship application to be processed. Everything was going smoothly until the medical examination where we now have to wait for an appointment with a specialist which could take months to a year.

My wife is allowed to stay in Canada until Nov. 8th, 2017 so I am now applying to extend and change the conditions of her stay to allow her to get a work permit.

Part of the application (IMM5708) asks "how long are you planning to stay", and the answer is of course permanently as she is awaiting PR. Unfortunately the field asks for specific From/To dates. How should so go about entering that in?

I of course do not want to make any mistakes on the application as it would cost another $100 and possibly create overstay.

I would appreciate any help we can get about this frustrating process. We had no idea the medical exam would cause this many problems and so much stress.

Thanks!

Jon
 
jneva053 said:
Hello. I hope someone can help us.

My wife, son and I are now in Canada waiting for my Wife's permanent residency (PR) through family sponsorship application to be processed. Everything was going smoothly until the medical examination where we now have to wait for an appointment with a specialist which could take months to a year.

My wife is allowed to stay in Canada until Nov. 8th, 2017 so I am now applying to extend and change the conditions of her stay to allow her to get a work permit.

Part of the application (IMM5708) asks "how long are you planning to stay", and the answer is of course permanently as she is awaiting PR. Unfortunately the field asks for specific From/To dates. How should so go about entering that in?

I of course do not want to make any mistakes on the application as it would cost another $100 and possibly create overstay.

I would appreciate any help we can get about this frustrating process. We had no idea the medical exam would cause this many problems and so much stress.

Thanks!

Jon
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IMO, either put the date you expect her PR application to be completed, or 6 more months from Nov 8.
 
Did you sponsor her for PR using the inland or outland stream?
 
scylla said:
Did you sponsor her for PR using the inland or outland stream?
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We started the application in Korea and then moved to Canada to get our lives started here as soon as possible. So I think we started in the oil and stream and then switched to inland? If that is possible. Will that affect her application to extend her stay or change her condition of stay?
Thanks for the help.
 
jneva053 said:
We started the application in Korea and then moved to Canada to get our lives started here as soon as possible. So I think we started in the oil and stream and then switched to inland? If that is possible. Will that affect her application to extend her stay or change her condition of stay?
Thanks for the help.
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Sorry for the typo. Darn autocorrect. Not "oil and stream" but outland stream.
 
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jneva053 said:
We started the application in Korea and then moved to Canada to get our lives started here as soon as possible. So I think we started in the oil and stream and then switched to inland? If that is possible. Will that affect her application to extend her stay or change her condition of stay?
Thanks for the help.
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1. Nope not possible, you started as an "out of Canada" spousal sponsorship and it remains so. So she is not entitled to an open spousal work permit. To work, she would require LMIA and then apply for a work permit.
 
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What PMM said. She doesn't qualify for a work permit - and you can't switch an outland application to inland.

She will need to apply to extend her status as a visitor in Canada before her allowed visit expires to keep her status legal. Working is not an option unless she's able to obtain a full time job offer from an employer and that employer is able to obtain an approved LMIA (in that case she can apply for a closed work permit).
 
PMM said:
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1. Nope not possible, you started as an "out of Canada" spousal sponsorship and it remains so. So she is not entitled to an open spousal work permit. To work, she would require LMIA and then apply for a work permit.
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Wow. You have a firm knowledge of the ins and outs of this extensive and complicates process. Thank you for the information.
 
scylla said:
What PMM said. She doesn't qualify for a work permit - and you can't switch an outland application to inland.

She will need to apply to extend her status as a visitor in Canada before her allowed visit expires to keep her status legal. Working is not an option unless she's able to obtain a full time job offer from an employer and that employer is able to obtain an approved LMIA (in that case she can apply for a closed work permit).
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Thank you very much for your response. I suppose she unfortunately just has to wait until her PR application is approved before she can do anything. It is really starting to wear on her and I feel responsible. She wants to start doing something...anything, and contributing to Canadian society.

Anyways, would you agree with bellaluda's post above that for the "expected duration of stay" field of the application to extend her stay she should but the end of the next sixth month period as the end date? Or the expected date of PR approval and final processing.

Thanks again so much for all of the input. I feel completely helpless and lost sometimes to be honest.
 
I would ask for a visitor visa extension of either six months or a year and mention that an outland sponsorship application is in progress and she's waiting out the processing in Canada.
 
I will just add that it is quite early to apply for the extension. You should wait until October.
 
Since she is a visitor a and you'll be paying for the appointment you may have access to private clinics depending on where you located.
 
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