Can you sponsor Common Law spouse if you are on a tourist visa?

[raycrawford]

I was reading a thread where a Canadian is in Korea on a tourist visa and asked can I sponsor my partner as a PR to Canada.

This was his answer?

1.  No.  Your status in the country can't be "tourist" if you're sponsoring your partner under the "common-law" category.

I don't understand this?  I am sponsoring my common law spouse and have been in the Philippines on tourist visa for 15 months.

Any shed any light on this?

Regards,

Raymond.

[ariell]

Sounds to me  like whoever answered had misunderstood the question. So, you can't come to Canada under a tourist visa and apply to sponsor your spouse/partner, obviously. I think that's what the person that answered was thinking. But of course you can be a Canadian citizen living in another country on a tourist visa and apply to sponsor your spouse/partner. How else would you be living together? Can you post the link where you saw the question?

[Leon]

Link to the answer.  The other posters situation might have been different from yours, also possible that the answer he got was incorrect.