The cost of spousal sponsorship?

[WillNAS]

To clarify, here on the forum, "landing" specifically means becoming a PR. If you are here on a work permit, you have not landed.

Well 1500 is not too much with all things considered.

 

[Bcboundboy]

Mr profiler is right ain't cheap darling

Well, I suppose if you decide you want to spray money at lawyers for no reason you can make it non-cheap, but the vast majority of applicants would have no need to go anywhere near one.

 

[wjmund]

I will break down what i included for expenses so you may understand.

5 trips from Canada to China at about $1500 each = $7500.
3 medicals plus wife's travel at about $600 each = $1800.
2 translators in Hong Kong at $400 each = $800
Renting hotels and apartments in China while visiting wife, 14 months at $500 = 7000.
I have my own house in Canada, so basically paying rent twice.
Consultant for appeal = $3000
Travel to Vancouver plus hotel 2 nights = $450

Also i paid the $1040 to immigration twice = $2080

Total of over $22,000. so you can see total cost is different for everyone.

 

[carolbb23]

it's all money we are doing inland spousal sponsorship plus we have immigration lawyer our journey started December 14,2015 we are a year in the game with everything in so far we are at the 11,000 range

 

[WillNAS]

It seems that applying visa spousal sponsorship is actually much cheaper than express entry.

I work for the University of Toronto, and they are able to quite easily get me a Labour Market Opinion for my job. However it would be over 4k going down that route.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I will break down what i included for expenses so you may understand.

5 trips from Canada to China at about $1500 each = $7500.
3 medicals plus wife's travel at about $600 each = $1800.
2 translators in Hong Kong at $400 each = $800
Renting hotels and apartments in China while visiting wife, 14 months at $500 = 7000.
I have my own house in Canada, so basically paying rent twice.
Consultant for appeal = $3000
Travel to Vancouver plus hotel 2 nights = $450

Also i paid the $1040 to immigration twice = $2080

Total of over $22,000. so you can see total cost is different for everyone.

OP asked for the costs of sponsorship. Travel is a personal choice, not a necessary cost.

Your situation is also not representative of a normal case because you were refused and then appealed.

 

[profiler]

It seems that applying visa spousal sponsorship is actually much cheaper than express entry.

I work for the University of Toronto, and they are able to quite easily get me a Labour Market Opinion for my job. However it would be over 4k going down that route.

Being in Toronto, you might find the medical cheaper. Out in KW we paid less than $250 all in. Add that to $1040 (and if the Principal Applicant is filing inland and wants to work, $255 for the OWP).

 

[carolbb23]

It seems that applying visa spousal sponsorship is actually much cheaper than express entry.

I work for the University of Toronto, and they are able to quite easily get me a Labour Market Opinion for my job. However it would be over 4k going down that route.

it pricey

 

[Bcboundboy]

I will break down what i included for expenses so you may understand.

5 trips from Canada to China at about $1500 each = $7500.
3 medicals plus wife's travel at about $600 each = $1800.
2 translators in Hong Kong at $400 each = $800
Renting hotels and apartments in China while visiting wife, 14 months at $500 = 7000.
I have my own house in Canada, so basically paying rent twice.
Consultant for appeal = $3000
Travel to Vancouver plus hotel 2 nights = $450

Also i paid the $1040 to immigration twice = $2080

Total of over $22,000. so you can see total cost is different for everyone.

Right, but most of that isn't the cost of spousal sponsorship, it's the cost of a long distance relationship. The only costs that are directly attributable to your application are $1800 medicals, $800 translators, $3000 consultant for appeal, $2080 - which is a total of $7680. That's under 1/3 of what you initially said, and that's from an incredibly unusual, complicated application with multiple parts repeated, which most people will get nowhere near.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Right, but most of that isn't the cost of spousal sponsorship, it's the cost of a long distance relationship. The only costs that are directly attributable to your application are $1800 medicals, $800 translators, $3000 consultant for appeal, $2080 - which is a total of $7680. That's under 1/3 of what you initially said, and that's from an incredibly unusual, complicated application with multiple parts repeated, which most people will get nowhere near.

The $3000 for a consultant is not attributable to the app, as it was a personal choice. People can appeal on their own.

 

[WillNAS]

In what kind of circumstances would you need to appeal?

 

[canuck_in_uk]

In what kind of circumstances would you need to appeal?

People can appeal if their app is refused and they don't agree with the reasons for the refusal.

 

[mikeymyke]

I will break down what i included for expenses so you may understand.

5 trips from Canada to China at about $1500 each = $7500.
3 medicals plus wife's travel at about $600 each = $1800.
2 translators in Hong Kong at $400 each = $800
Renting hotels and apartments in China while visiting wife, 14 months at $500 = 7000.
I have my own house in Canada, so basically paying rent twice.
Consultant for appeal = $3000
Travel to Vancouver plus hotel 2 nights = $450

Also i paid the $1040 to immigration twice = $2080

Total of over $22,000. so you can see total cost is different for everyone.

just curious, to save on living costs, why didnt you' just go live in your wife's place?

 

[WillNAS]

People can appeal if their app is refused and they don't agree with the reasons for the refusal.

So why do people get refused? The only thing I am worried about is that we got married very quickly, and did not have a honeymoon. I'm worried they could think it to be some sort of fraud?

I initially planned on getting my partner UK residency, but that would have been even harder.

If I get refused, we are kind of screwed as getting her into the UK will be next to impossible.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

So why do people get refused? The only thing I am worried about is that we got married very quickly, and did not have a honeymoon. I'm worried they could think it to be some sort of fraud?

I initially planned on getting my partner UK residency, but that would have been even harder.

If I get refused, we are kind of screwed as getting her into the UK will be next to impossible.

There are many reasons for refusal but generally, a non-genuine relationship, i.e. a Marriage of Convenience. There are MANY different factors that could lead to such a decision.

You are from the UK, a country as equally developed as Canada, so you are not a Marriage of Convenience risk. IRCC will not think that you entered into this marriage to gain status in Canada.

For perspective, the poster wjmund was refused in their first app because of MASSIVE red flags: only had a 2 month online relationship, married 3 days after actually meeting for the first time in person, didn't speak a common language, had spent little time together, she was from an MOC risk country, etc.

Don't stress. You will have no issues with your app.