Visitor Visa after applying for PR Sponsorship

[nakash]

I am a Canadian PR and recently submitted the sponsorship application for my wife on Feb 1, 2012 to CPC-M.
Soon after our wedding, we had applied for a visitor visa for my wife and it got rejected. We both are Indian Citizens. My wife is currently unemployed. Reasons given by Visa officer were:

1. Family ties in Canada and in your country of residence.
2. Travel History
3. Your current employment situation

Now since her PR is going to take months, we would like to take a second shot at visitor visa, so that she can at least come here for a few months before her passport is requested for PR visa stamping, at which point she can go back to India and complete the PR formalities, so that she can come back here as a PR permanently. Now my question is, what do we do different this time to convince the visa officer? We are planning to apply after we receive the file number, so we can quote that file number and say that we have already applied for sponsorship and she has to go back to India in any case for stamping, even if she is living here with me for a few months.

Any ideas, suggestions? What extra documents should we include to strengthen our visitor visa case?

Thanks
Nakash

 

[pinklady]

I think it will be rejected again.
Because you and married they think she will not leave Canada again. She also does not have a job so fewer ties to her home country.

Even if she got a job you are unlikely to be successful since you have PR application in process so she will obviously be leaving the job soon to join you in Canada.

Unless you can prove somehow that she will leave canada again it will be refused again.

 

[AmandaHsu]

Sorry to hear that but I have to say that your wife should apply the visa before sending PR application. Because I've been hearing the same stories over and over and it seems like you'll have nothing to do with that.

Since you've applied PR outside Canada, it will be difficult for your wife to prove that she is not intend to stay in Canada which is concerned most by visa officer. Although you mentioned that "providing your file number to convince the officer", I don't think it would work personally because the officer might wonder that " what if your wife's PR is not approved, will she just stay in Canada illegally since her husband is in Canada....".

 

[nakash]

Thank you guys for your responses. Appreciated.