Soyta said:
I have sponsored my wife recently. After all the excitement going through the process and bringing my spouse to Canada, a visa was granted for her. I was happy and being prepared to receive her. However, my relationship with her goes south dramatically after getting the visa. Eventually, she told me that she has no interest in the marriage or to live with me but to come to Canada. She told me she will fly to Toronto without my assistance and settle there. I live in a different province. I feel that I am betrayed and scammed. I just want to file my divorce and stop her from coming to Canada. I don't want to see her landing to Canada and create sponsorship problems as I have signed with CIC to take care of her for 3 years.
Any advice will be appreciated? Thanks.
Does she have Conditional PR (condition 51) indicated on her COPR? If you were married less than 2 years at the time you submitted the app, then she should have conditional PR and would be required to live with you for 2 years after landing. Such an obvious case like this one where she will not even live with you from day 1, sounds to me like a super easy case where CIC would be able to revoke her PR status is she was able to land.
If she has not yet done the official PR landing, then as mentioned above you need to
immediately call CIC and CBSA to report her and see if they will cancel her COPR. There is the chance that even if you do report everything, the CBSA officer may not see the info in time and would allow her to land as a PR. Timing now is critical for you.
You may want to also consider telling your wife that you have cancelled your sponsorship and when she tried to use her COPR to land in Canada, CBSA will see in their files she is no longer in a relationship and you have withdrawn sponsorship, and will deny her landing and send her right back to her home country from the airport. Hopefully in this case, she doesn't even try to land.