Sponsor/Applicant Question

[Beehivefive]

My wife and I live together in the States and are applying for her Canadian PR. Being that we live together, she obviously does not need to mail her application paperwork to me. When I mail my sponsorship paperwork in the envelope to Mississauga, should I put my wife's application in a separte envelope INSIDE the envelope I mail?

 

[Ponga]

Everything gets put into a large envelope (or even a small box for some) that will contain 3 smaller envelopes:

Sponsor's forms and requested documents

Applicant's forms and requested documents

Evidence of your relationship (such as photos, cards, letters, testimonials from family and friends, etc.).


The current processing time for a straightforward application for an American is pretty quick; ~ 5 months total.

Good luck!

 

[andrew-brit]

CIC does not instruct you to put the sponsor forms, applicant forms and supporting documents into 3 separate envelopes. They only instruct you to mail everything in an envelope.

Some members like to do the 3 envelope thing to be neat, but once your application reaches CIC all your hard work and planning counts for nothing as they will reorganize your application/envelope contents as they see fit.

Personally I put everything in 1 envelope and had a cover sheet for each section (Sponsor forms, Applicant forms and Supporting docs).

 

[Ponga]

Fair enough.

I was simply one of the ones that made the choice to organize the plethora of paper into three folders.

 

[blueangel371115]

I just separated them by documents other than forms requested. Sponsor's in front, copies of passports ( we put both on one paper. We'll see how that goes since they didn't say we couldn't) my stuff then our proofs. We'll see how it turns out.