My spouse and I submitted an outland spousal sponsorship PR application in October 2021 with me as the sponsor. I am a Canadian citizen and my spouse is an Indian citizen. At the time of submission, my spouse was living in the USA on an F1 student visa (OPT stem employment) and I was living in Canada.
On March 8 2022 we received the "Ready for visa" email (yay!!!) instructing us to send my spouse's passport to New York for issuance of PR visa. I think, normally, COPR documents would also be issued at around this time this visa is given.
Here's where things got complicated: at about the same time as the "Ready for visa" email came to us, my spouse entered Canada on a visitor visa to live with me at my home and ceased to be a resident of or have any status in the USA. Because she was no longer in the US, rather than send the passport to New York, we sent an enquiry to IRCC explaining the circumstances, esp. that she was already in Canada. On May 3 2022 we got a reply instructing us to go online and change her address to our address in Canada. We submitted an address update request on May 5 2022, but this change still does not appear online under client application status. We haven't been able to get a hold of IRCC to find out what the next steps should be for us to get things moving again and obtain COPR while inside the country.
From what I see online, once you get the RFV email, it is usually not much a wait to get COPR. So, it is frustrating to be stuck with only RFV for months now. Do you think there is anything we can do to get things moving again? We are concerned that, after submitting the address change, our application has been moved to the bottom of a pile at a new office and that we have lost our position in the queue, so to speak.
Advice appreciated!
On March 8 2022 we received the "Ready for visa" email (yay!!!) instructing us to send my spouse's passport to New York for issuance of PR visa. I think, normally, COPR documents would also be issued at around this time this visa is given.
Here's where things got complicated: at about the same time as the "Ready for visa" email came to us, my spouse entered Canada on a visitor visa to live with me at my home and ceased to be a resident of or have any status in the USA. Because she was no longer in the US, rather than send the passport to New York, we sent an enquiry to IRCC explaining the circumstances, esp. that she was already in Canada. On May 3 2022 we got a reply instructing us to go online and change her address to our address in Canada. We submitted an address update request on May 5 2022, but this change still does not appear online under client application status. We haven't been able to get a hold of IRCC to find out what the next steps should be for us to get things moving again and obtain COPR while inside the country.
From what I see online, once you get the RFV email, it is usually not much a wait to get COPR. So, it is frustrating to be stuck with only RFV for months now. Do you think there is anything we can do to get things moving again? We are concerned that, after submitting the address change, our application has been moved to the bottom of a pile at a new office and that we have lost our position in the queue, so to speak.
Advice appreciated!
