Thanks for your reply. So no matter how long it doesn’t really matter. I just hope for the best on your application.
My wife overstayed for 2 years before we applied for PR, she landed last July, app was all completed in 11 months. We never got tangled up with the CBSA, one of the lucky ones and such a relief we are living a normal and stress free life now!
I have read here people have been approved for PR with 5+ years overstay even with CBSA involvement so it can still end good eventually.
It’s never an ideal situation of course and seems a bit of a roulette wheel as to if CBSA will become involved and how long the sponsorship takes as some people report much longer waiting times.
And you can find some overstay cases not ending good but from what I read here as long as you’re a genuine couple and compile a solid app backing it up it will most likely end positively.