PR Card Expired - with Inland sponsorship - Attn:LEON

[jeymi]

Hi Leon,

My PR card was expired on Feb 14, 2012. I filed an inland sponsorship to sponsor my common-law partner on Dec 6, 2010 and it was transferred to local cic on Nov 15, 2011. Would this affect my sponsorship?

By the way, I sent my request on PR renewal on Feb 27.

Hope to hear from you.

Thanks.

 

[Leon]

I don't see why it would affect your sponsorship. Do you meet the residency requirements and have you applied to renew your card? Was your application transferred to local office with or without first stage approval?

 

[jeymi]

My PR card was expired on Feb 14, 2012. I meet the residency requirement. I stayed here in Canada for 733 days (# of days before my PR card expired). And currently living in Canada. I submitted my renewal on Feb 27.

Our file was transferred to local cic without AIP.

I'm just wondering if this will affect my sponsorship because the PR card that I submitted in our application was already expired. Also in foss notes, it says that service standard date is Feb 29, 2012. But we haven't heard anything from them. No ecas update or letter.

 

[Leon]

I guess you will find out when they call you for your interview then. Have you contacted the local office to find out how long it takes?

 

[jeymi]

We haven't contacted our local cic. Our cic is in vancouver. There's one member here that his file was transferred in Vancouver on Oct 2011 and he got his interview and AIP on Jan 31st. I hope that we could here from them soon.

I will PM you the remarks from our foss notes.

Thank You.

 

[aman_248]

ATTN: LEON

Hey all,

I live in Canada as PR since March 2013 and am planning to sponsor my wife from Saudi Arabia. We got married on December 30, 2014. As filing up the sponsorship application, I came across some requirements and I need some clarification about it.

1. I am planning to go to Saudi Arabia after I apply for a visit, and as soon as the process is complete and hopefully approved, her and I will be coming together. I know am supposed to reside in Canada till the process is finished and her PR visa is printed. According to what I just described I have these questions:

a) Am I allowed for a short trip while the application is in process, if yes, how long should the trip be?

b) If I can't travel at all, can I wait till she gets her PR visa printed and go spend some time with her and her family for about a month or two and then come back together. If yes, how long till her visa expires, keeping in mind that her medical check is valid for only one year?

c) If we have enough time regarding her PR visa expiry date, which is good, what would happen if the medical check up expires during my stay over there with her? Can she just do another medical check up or how would it work?

2. To proof that our marriage is true, we are required to provide telephone bills showing that we have been contacting each other, same with emails. We've never used our mobile phones to contact each other(as it is very expensive) nor emails unless sharing documents for PR and sponsorship applications. However, we've always kept in touch on a daily basis through chatting apps such as whats app, Telegram, Facebook, BBM messenger, and about two to three times per week we used apps such as Tango, Viber previously, Line etc. as a mean of contacting each other for video and voice calls. We also used prepaid phone cards very rarely because we have constant data on our phones that we didn't need to use prepaid phone cards much. Will that be enough of a proof? And will the immigration accept it?

3. I have been working as a Lab Technician in Centennial College since January 2015, which is less than a year if I was to apply for sponsorship right now. That being said, regarding question no. 3 on IMM5481 Sponsorship Evaluation Form, does it imply that I would need to work for at least 12 months before sponsoring my wife?

Thanks in advance

 

[Leon]

As a PR sponsor, you must be residing in Canada. You should stay at least until the sponsor approval is through which takes a couple of months. After her file has cleared Mississauga, you can go visit her for a short trip. I would recommend staying no longer than 2-3 weeks and make sure somebody is going to your house on a regular basis in the meantime to check your mail and messages in case immigration tries to get in touch.

You can visit her again when she gets her visa and travel with her back when she lands. Her visa is only valid as long as the medicals so if her medicals and visa expire while you are there and she did not land yet, you would have to apply to sponsor her again from scratch. Immigration will not just say sorry your visa expired, we'll just give you a new one. Not unless maybe there are inforeseeable reasons why she couldn't land in time and she had advised them of that like a serious illness, accident etc. If she has important things to attend to, she could still land in Canada, stay for a few days and then return home to take care of business. Letting the visa expire should be avoided at all costs.

You can try to find ways to print out some of your conversations. Like screen shots of some of your what's app conversations.

If you are only sponsoring your wife, you do not need the financial evaluation. There is another form you fill out. You do not need to have worked for a year.