zardoz said:
If the sponsor is a Canadian citizen, no problem. If however the sponsor is a PR, they are pushing their luck a little with a month. If CIC find the sponsor unavailable when they need to contact them, they *might* take the view that the sponsor is not resident in Canada and push the "abort" button.
Bottom line: It's probably going to be OK, but it's a small risk.
I am not getting the link now but what I know it said in that link that its OK.
For example, I am a PR since June-2012 and applied for my wife outland in 2013. Within a month I got both sponsorship approval and CSQ for her.
I am also a full time permanent employee at Montreal and I can afford to take vacation for a month long. so why shouldn't I be taking if I want?
In my knowledge, if you are not residing in Canada for over 6 months/year then you are putting your PR status in trouble and your sponsorship can face issues, but 1 month should be ok.
Still I hope my wives file gets processed soon as its in Singapore now and says "application received"; I can't take it any more, this separation is killing me.
But at the end its just my way of thinking.