Questions about Spouse PR and visit visa

[StopSpamming]

Apologies if a similar question has been posted on this forum before. I have my COPR and plan to move to Canada in August. After obtaining my PR card, I will leave for my marriage and then return to Canada with my spouse immediately. My current plan is to apply for a visitor visa for my spouse before marriage so that she can enter Canada using this visa while I use my PR card. Once we are both in Canada, I will apply to sponsor her PR. I would appreciate any suggestions on whether this is a sound plan or if there are any mistakes I am making.

Additionally, I assume that I can apply for an Open Work Permit for her once I receive the AOR for her PR application, allowing her to stay with me while her PR is being processed. Is this correct?

 

[armoured]

Apologies if a similar question has been posted on this forum before. I have my COPR and plan to move to Canada in August. After obtaining my PR card, I will leave for my marriage and then return to Canada with my spouse immediately. My current plan is to apply for a visitor visa for my spouse before marriage so that she can enter Canada using this visa while I use my PR card. Once we are both in Canada, I will apply to sponsor her PR. I would appreciate any suggestions on whether this is a sound plan or if there are any mistakes I am making.

Additionally, I assume that I can apply for an Open Work Permit for her once I receive the AOR for her PR application, allowing her to stay with me while her PR is being processed. Is this correct?

All basically correct but the real question is whether she will get a visitor's visa. Basically no-one can say what the chances are.

So it's a plan based on a rather large and unknowable contingency. Whether that's 'sound' or not, perhaps a question of semantics.

 

[StopSpamming]

All basically correct but the real question is whether she will get a visitor's visa. Basically no-one can say what the chances are.

So it's a plan based on a rather large and unknowable contingency. Whether that's 'sound' or not, perhaps a question of semantics.

Understood, thanks for confirming.
While she is applying for the visitor visa, she is not going to show any ties with me. She will be applying as an independent who is currently working in her home country and plans to visit Canada with sufficient funds and probably a travel itinerary.

 

[canuck78]

Why not get married now and add her to the application that would eliminate any possibility of a long separation.

 

[StopSpamming]

Sorry a bit confused, add her to which application? My PR application is approved and I have my COPR. I can't start spouse PR before I actually enter Canada since I have not done a soft landing yet to get my PR card.

 

[armoured]

Sorry a bit confused, add her to which application? My PR application is approved and I have my COPR. I can't start spouse PR before I actually enter Canada since I have not done a soft landing yet to get my PR card.

I second the suggestion above.

Process is this: you'd get married, contact IRCC (as the COPR states, you MUST inform them if your family situation changes), they would cancel (pause really) the current COPR and direct you to add your spouse to the application.

She'd have to do medicals and biometric etc and eventually IRCC would issue new COPRs for both of you (and new visas etc). You would both land as PRs from day one.

So would mean more delay for you to arrive as a PR - a minor thing compared to having to wait for your spouse to get a visa.

About only downside is if your spouse is medically inadmissible or for security reasons, you'd be rather stuck. Both infrequent scenarios (eg you'd probably already know if serious medical issues).

 

[StopSpamming]

Thank you for the suggestions, appreciate it. Only issue right now is my COPR expires in August and my marriage is set for October, changing the marriage date to a date earlier than August is quite impossible in my scenario but I will consider it.

 

[canuck78]

Your future spouse should be applying for TRV now in case it takes a few months. If denied she could apply a second time. An approved TRV doesn’t guarantee entry but it is much better than no TRV.