Re: Spousal sponsorship. Pickup of resident card/interview
So I hope you can help. We applied inbound in Sept 2014 and living here in Halifax, N.S. Finally got the letter from our local office that the application has been completed and that I (since I'm the sponsor) am to accompany my wife to the office on February 11th where the application will be finalized. Everything sounds great right? Well I check my wife's tourist visa expiry, and I kid you not, it will end FEBRUARY 5th!!!! She had flown out last August as her mother died and she was let back in even though at that time her tourist visa had expired. My fault at that time as I thought it was ok if the permanent residence application was in process that it wasn't necessary to extend the tourist visa yet again. Anyway my question now is do I really have to extend the tourist visa (lots of paperwork for that, or take.a trip over to Maine and come back in to get the stamp) for those SIX DAYS that it will be expired when we go to the interview to get the final decision? Part of me thinks 6 days is no big deal, yet I don't want to arrive at the final phase like this and them say "Oh her tourist visa has expired so we're denying her permanent residency". Which would really suck. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.