Visitor visa application for my spouse after submitting sponsorship application

[Maxxx]

I am a Canadian permanent resident (citizen of Trinidad and Tobago) living and working in Canada, and I will be sponsoring my wife to come to Canada with me in the near future.
My question is about her applying for a visitor visa to come to Canada and visit me while the sponsorship application is taking place.
She has been granted visitor's visas prior to us being married, and has visited me numerous times, but her last visitor visa expired last year, and this will be the first time she will be applying for a visitor's visa as my spouse.
She has been permanently employed in Trinidad for over 10 years so I am hoping this will show that she has ties to Trinidad.
Is it likely that the visitor visa application will be rejected, and if it is rejected, will this adversely affect the sponsorship application?

 

[Leopold_31]

Its like a lottery, you never know if it will be rejected or not.
I heard from many other people that rejection of a visitors visa will not affect your sponsorship process.

 

[sshh13]

I am a Canadian permanent resident (citizen of Trinidad and Tobago) living and working in Canada, and I will be sponsoring my wife to come to Canada with me in the near future.
My question is about her applying for a visitor visa to come to Canada and visit me while the sponsorship application is taking place.
She has been granted visitor's visas prior to us being married, and has visited me numerous times, but her last visitor visa expired last year, and this will be the first time she will be applying for a visitor's visa as my spouse.
She has been permanently employed in Trinidad for over 10 years so I am hoping this will show that she has ties to Trinidad.
Is it likely that the visitor visa application will be rejected, and if it is rejected, will this adversely affect the sponsorship application?

Leopold_31 is right. Do not worry, it will not affect the sponsorship process at all. Just make sure, that your wife will apply for TRV after you will be approved as a sponsor. In this case she will have more chances to get the positive answer.
Moreover your wife have quite good chances, because she had a visa before, she was visiting you a lot and she have never overstayed. The fact that she's working at the same place for 10 years is important too. As I was suggesting to Leopold_31 before, let her write a good cover letter, where she can explain her purpose of the visit and all those facts about having visa before, travelling to Canada numerous times and never breaking immigration laws, having a good stable job, being in the sponsorship process at the moment as the factors that she does not have intention of staying in Canada illegally. Do not forget to attach all supporting documents and the proofs of your relationship (pretty much the same which you have sent in your sponsorship package)

 

[Leopold_31]

Leopold_31 is right. Do not worry, it will not affect the sponsorship process at all. Just make sure, that your wife will apply for TRV after you will be approved as a sponsor. In this case she will have more chances to get the positive answer.
Moreover your wife have quite good chances, because she had a visa before, she was visiting you a lot and she have never overstayed. The fact that she's working at the same place for 10 years is important too. As I was suggesting to Leopold_31 before, let her write a good cover letter, where she can explain her purpose of the visit and all those facts about having visa before, travelling to Canada numerous times and never breaking immigration laws, having a good stable job, being in the sponsorship process at the moment as the factors that she does not have intention of staying in Canada illegally. Do not forget to attach all supporting documents and the proofs of your relationship (pretty much the same which you have sent in your sponsorship package)

That might be kind of hard, for the sponsorship process I printed out a bunch of conversation logs, call logs, photos, western union reciepts etc
But on online visa application all you can attach is 4mb files, which is very small. I am kind of worried I won't be able to include all the required information.

 

[sshh13]

That might be kind of hard, for the sponsorship process I printed out a bunch of conversation logs, call logs, photos, western union reciepts etc
But on online visa application all you can attach is 4mb files, which is very small. I am kind of worried I won't be able to include all the required information.

I agree with you. That was exactly what I have experienced while preparing my own application package. I felt myself as the wizard of oz trying to stick all my documents in 4 MB. But believe me, it s possible. Split your documents into two parts: most important and less important proofs. For me it was as follow:
Most important:
- marriage cert
- photos (it was hard, but I sorted all our photos and picked up 36. 9 photos on each page of the doc)
- copy of joint bank account
- copy of joint medical insurance
- a few emails

Less important:
- copies of my husband's visas (when he was visiting me in my home country)
- copies of paid airtickets and hotels (when we were travelling together)
- copies of admission tickets for some attractions we have visited together)
- a few more emails (i did not attach skype or phone calls)

Most important docs went to the folder Proofs of relationship. Less important went to the folder Letter of explanation.
The hardest thing was to find balance between reducing the size of the document and keeping acceptable quality of the pictures (especially photos). The best option is to use .docx format in Word. It can create lower size documents and apart from that it has the function of reducing the size (File- REduce the size of the doc - 150 or 96 dots per inch). I noticed that if to use the same option of size reducing in .pdf - the quality of the picture become horrible. Somehow, in Word it remained the same.
After that you can save it as .pdf (docs size will became bigger) or to keep as .docx and upload it just like that.
It can be a bit tricky at the beginning and it will take time for sure, but it worth the result.

 

[Leopold_31]

Thank you for great advice

 

[Maxxx]

Thank you for your input everyone.....it was most appreciated.
If anyone else has any other insight please feel free to share.