Mohit_ind said:
Hi guys... Seems some real advisors here.
Firstly I would like to brief you all with my case.
My wife is in canada on a study permit with my 14 month old daughter for next two years for her PG.
I hold a valid visitor visa for canada too.
I am a post graduate in management but have no job experience as since beginning I am into business.
I am a self employed person dealing into imports of recyclable meta scrap for india and neighboring countries which is mainly a brokerage between big mills and scrap yards in various countries. My travel history is great with over 25 trips overseas to all developed developing and under developed ones.
Now I need to apply for SOWP as firstly my daughter is not able to settle down properly in the day care so my wife badly needs me to stay for some time until she finishes her PG, secondly with a SOWP I can well do my trade too from canada as even canada is a source for our supplies.
My question here is should I enter canada and then apply for SOWP or should I apply for the same from my india and then visit canada.
Lastly my wife's aunt is in canada who's a citizen since last 35-40 years and she had actually sponsored my wife's stay n expenses and will happily send any document or letter of sponsorship for my application too. She is well settled and owns property in canada which is just occupied by my wife n her.
Would love to have your valuable response on my situation.
Thanks well in advance.
I am sorry but probably my responses won't be very encouraging.
To take care of your daughter you can always go on a visitor visa that you already have.
However, work permit processing times are around 4 months for applications from inside Canada right now.
Plus knowing the work permit scenarios, i must say this is quite a weird profile (your business) which i don't see easily getting past CIC.
Normally a SOWP is allowed to work for any one - but being a business owner is a different thing. You are required often to register a company in Canada to do so - of which often being a permanent resident is a requirement.
I don't know further details of your profile or business but it is very likely that it would not at least be a straight forward case and hence would take time to process and could be refused.
You might still get a SOWP mainly because of your wife's status but i am not sure if you would be able to actually work / run business here.
Lastly, i don't see any impact of having a citizen aunt here. She could support sponsoring a visitor visa, but you already have that.
A SOWP is not something that is sponsored and has no bearing with a relationship being there, except may be an informal understanding that in case you don't get work and your spouse also can't help you might have some one to support. But this is not a formal ground AFAIK.
Once your Spouse completes her education, and gets a PGWP, she would need to get a NOC 0, A or B job for you to be eligible for a SOWP based upon that.