Hi Tirmizi, I don't have an answer to your question, but rather needed to ask you how long did it take from the moment your sent the application to sponsor your child from within Canada until the moment in which you received notification that they had received the documents? I have the same case, we are PRs but my newborn was born in the USA due to personal reasons. I left to have him in April and came back to Canada in May 2012 and applied to sponsor my son in July. I sent the documents on the 20th of July and got the mail notification that documents were delivered on the 23rd. I just want to have an idea of how long will this process take for a dependent child to get his PR within Canada, since the processing times on the CIC website for sponsored people within Canada talks only about Spouses or Common Law Partners (It says 11 months). Thank you for you kind attention.