Spousal sponsorship

[Nneoma.muna]

Hi,

Has anyone received or knows if anyone received the PPR or COPR during this pandemic (April and May) ?

yes a lot of people. but most are yet to land. only one person said he landed over phone interview

 

[Tintin1984]

We’re now nearly at the end of the process of completing all the forms etc, and should be submitting everything in the next month. Out of interest, is anyone aware of the main reasons why people aren’t successful in obtaining PR?

thanks in advance

 

[maxayma]

Dear All,

I need your advice how to deal with this situation, my application was delivered in May 2020 no file number and no AOR so far. I was refused TRV before in February 2019.

Schedule A
Background / Declaration

IMM 5669

On question

d) been refused refugee status, an immigrant or permanent resident visa (including a Certificate de selection du Quebec(CSQ) or application to the Provincial Nominee Program) or visitor or temporary resident visa, to Canada or any other country?

- I have answered No by mistake

e) been refused admission to, or ordered to leave, Canada or any other Country

- I have answered Yes because of my TRV refusal and in the box I gave further info including my UCI, application date and number as per my IRCC account.

I know this will not count as misrepresentation because I declared the fact about my TRV refusal in the box where they ask for more details. Additionally, I also addressed that in my cover letter I wrote about my Visa applicant refusal.

1) Would this cause Application to be returned back? I assume if an officer will read the box below those question he will know I was only confused question e instead of question d?
2) In case I receive the AOR shall I raise matter and upload a correct version of the form?

 

[amitbhaskar]

Hi there. In the form IMM 5669

I filled up everything and when I click validate button
1. it doesn't give the barcode
2. it doesn't say "validation successful" in the popup & there is no red box as it uses to show up when there was any mistake. So is it validated successfully even though there is no popup?


Any help?

 

[Osmel86]

Hi there. In the form IMM 5669

I filled up everything and when I click validate button
1. it doesn't give the barcode
2. it doesn't say "validation successful" in the popup & there is no red box as it uses to show up when there was any mistake. So is it validated successfully even though there is no popup?


Any help?

Hello. That form doesn´t pop up a barcode

 

[amitbhaskar]

Hello. That form doesn´t pop up a barcode

HEY THANKS FOR THE REPLY.

but my problem was , 1st. no barcode which i understand, this particular form is not supposed to generate bar code.

but when you validate other forms, there is a popup that either says error or says this file has been successfully validated. I am not getting anything after clicking on the validate button. Neither any error nor successful message

 

[SHPAH]

So you are in the situation that you want to sponsor your foreign spouse for permanent residency of Canada and don't know where to start. Here are some tips:

Married, common law or conjugal partners

First you need to pick an application class. There are three of them: married, common-law and conjugal. For all of them, you need to prove the genuineity of your relationship. For common-law, you need to prove that you have lived together for 12 months or longer. For conjugal, you need to prove that you have combined your affairs as much as possible but there are real immigration barriers or other barriers preventing you from living together or getting married. Conjugal is the hardest to prove. For example, if your partner could get a visit visa to come to Canada for 6 months and then apply for an extension to get the full year, even though they will not be allowed to work, that is not considered an immigration barrier. An immigration barrier is if your partner tries to get a visit visa to come to Canada and is repeatedly refused. Some people have had luck with the conjugal class but try to avoid it if possible.

Outland or inland?

Now you need to decide if to apply outland or inland. If your spouse is not in Canada and can not get a visa to go to Canada, you must apply outland. That means that you will send your application to Mississauga and they will approve you as a sponsor. The time that takes is usually 1-2 months to but current processing times can be seen here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/process-in.asp#sponsorship After that, the application is forwarded to your local visa office. If your spouse is residing in a country other than the country of their nationality, you can pick which of the two visa offices you want. Otherwise it will be processed in their country of nationality. You can see the processing times here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/international/05-fc-spouses.asp

If your spouse is staying in Canada as a visitor or on some other visa, you can pick whether you want to apply outland or inland. Outland is generally faster and has appeal rights but a downside to outland is that if an interview is required, your spouse will have to travel to the visa office in the country where it's being processed. Inland has the downside that it's generally not advised that your spouse travels while you are waiting for your processing because it is a requirement of inland that they reside in Canada and if they are denied entry at the border for some reason, your application is gone. If an interview is required for inland, you may also have to wait a long time for it. The inland application would be sent to Vegreville and if all goes well, you would get a first stage approval, usually in 6 to 8 months. The current processing times can be seen here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/process-in.asp#perm_res Then the file is forwarded to your local CIC office where you live and they will contact you for a landing appointment. Getting the PR with inland usually takes 12-18 months. If an interview is required for inland, Vegreville will not give first stage approval but instead will forward the application to the local CIC office without it and you will have to wait for them to have time for your interview. In some cases that can take a year or two. If you do get the first stage approval, your spouse will usually be eligible for health care and an open work permit. It is actually a good idea when applying inland to send an application form for a visit visa extension as well as the open work permit to be given at first stage approval all in one package so it's tied together.

Which method to pick depends on your situation. If your spouses country of nationality has a long processing time or your spouse does not want to have to travel there for a possible interview, then inland is the way to go. For faster processing and freedom of travel during the processing time, outland would be better. You can find the application forms for inland at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/spouse.asp and the application forms for outland at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/fc.asp

Avoiding potential problems with your application

The most common reason for people to be called for an interview is that the visa officer has doubts about the relationship being genuine. It is up to you to send immigration some quality data, emails, chat logs, phone records, photos, letters and other material to prove to them that your relationship is the real thing. Other reasons you might have problems with is eligibility of the sponsor. The sponsor can not be on social assistance, can not be bankrupt and can not have a record of violent crimes or crimes against family members. If that is the case, better talk to a lawyer and get that cleared up before attempting to apply.

Dependent children

If your spouse has dependent children, they must be included in the PR application, even if they are not coming to Canada. They will need to have medicals as well to keep the option open to sponsor them later. The only way that immigration will accept the application without those medicals is if the children are no longer minors and refuse to have it or if the children are in the full custody of their other parent who refuses to make them available for medicals. In that case, your spouse needs to sign a statement stating that they know that they will never be able to sponsor these children to Canada in the future.

Dependent children are classified as single and either under 22 years of age or if they are older, they must have been full time students since before age 22 or dependent on their parent due to a disability or medical problem.

Refusals due to income and medicals

You will be asked to provide information about your income but you will not be denied to sponsor your spouse and dependent children because you do not make enough money. It is possible though that if you make absolutely no money at all that immigration may ask you how you plan to support yourselves.

Spouses and dependent children are also exempt from the clause about excessive demand on health care so you do not have to worry about them being refused for that reason.

Sponsoring your spouse while living in another country

If you are a Canadian citizen, you can sponsor your spouse without being in Canada but you do then have to prove that you are planning on moving to Canada when your spouse gets approved for permanent residency. Such proof can include having arranged jobs, being accepted to college, having arranged housing or letters from friends & relatives stating that they know of your plans and that you can stay with them while you look for housing etc.

If you are a PR, you must reside in Canada in order to sponsor your spouse. You can chance short vacations (remember that a Canadian vacation is generally no longer than 2 weeks) but if immigration finds out that you are not in Canada, you risk getting your application refused.

Hello I am a Canadian citizen born and raised in Canada. I married my wife in Lebanon last year. She is lebanese and now we are living in kuwait. I did the spousal sponsorship for my wife with our immigration council in Montreal. Then it was finished and sent to nova
Scotia to the correct department. It was signed and received March 1st. However the application has not been opened, no application number given nor was any email sent to us or our council, is this normal even with COVID 19 that for 3
Months we haven’t heard anything?

 

[Glacier]

Hi My annual income for the last 4 years has been
2015-2016- 10000 cad
2016-2017- 12000cad
2017-2018- 13000cad
2019-2020- 25000cad
Apart from this annual income I have around 15k cad of savings in my own personal account. Can anybody please let me know if I stand a chance to be elegible to sponser my spouse and one child with the current financial situation
Thanks

You dont need to show income for spousal sponsorship, though they ask you for employment letter and Noa's of last 2 years. All they check is you are not on EI or any grant. Hope this helps

 

[Glacier]

Hi everyone,

I am about to submit my spouse sponsorship application.

Was wondering if they are still accepting applications amid the lockdown right now.

If yes, for anyone who recently submitted the application, did you request signature?

Many thanks.

Yes they are , you can check on www.cic.gc.ca or call there call centre to confirm

 

[Osmel86]

HEY THANKS FOR THE REPLY.

but my problem was , 1st. no barcode which i understand, this particular form is not supposed to generate bar code.

but when you validate other forms, there is a popup that either says error or says this file has been successfully validated. I am not getting anything after clicking on the validate button. Neither any error nor successful message

Well, it must actually say ¨Validation completed sucessfully¨. Which PDF Viewer are you using???

 

[Canada2020eh]

Hello I am a Canadian citizen born and raised in Canada. I married my wife in Lebanon last year. She is lebanese and now we are living in kuwait. I did the spousal sponsorship for my wife with our immigration council in Montreal. Then it was finished and sent to nova
Scotia to the correct department. It was signed and received March 1st. However the application has not been opened, no application number given nor was any email sent to us or our council, is this normal even with COVID 19 that for 3
Months we haven’t heard anything?

Unfortunately your application was received just before everything virtually shut down. 2-3 months would be a normal time to get AOR, right now nobody knows how long it will take, just hope for easing of restrictions in Canada and more people getting back to work so they can get back up to speed on the processing. You know they received you app, just have to be patient.

 

[Diplomat07]

Hi I cancelled my application for spousal sponsorship but we still had our interview. I wrote a letter on the web form to reverse the cancellation. The ircc replied and said they sent a note on my file and advised the responsible office. They said I should hear a reply when a decision is made as they are still processing my file. Does this mean my husband can still get his pr visa with this application?

Hi, If you do not mind me asking, was there any specific reason they called you for an interview?

 

[Belarusian]

experts tell me please, as proof I need to provide copy of PR-card of my spouse, at the moment I have a copy of the old card (it ended), because the husband wait still new PR card 3 monthes. could this be a problem when crossing the border?

 

[SHPAH]

Hi, If you do not mind me asking, was there any specific reason they called you for an interview?

May I ask exactly where you wrote your web form letter?

 

[Anne16]

Hi

We're requesting GCMS notes for my PR application. Please help us fill up the form "CONSENT FOR AN ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PERSONAL INFORMATION REQUEST". So sorry we're confused as to how we will enter our information here. My PR husband will submit this, is the "1. Designated Representative’s Information" my details or my husband. How about in "2. Applicant's Information" and in 2.1 Related Individual’s Information.

Thanks in advance!

Anne16