Applying for spousal sponsorship / permanent residency

[marlaANDmateh]

Hi All

My canadian citizen fiance and I ( british citizen ) will be getting married before the end of the year here in Canada.

At the moment i am here on a temporary resident visa ( being from the UK i automatically qualified for this on entry into Canada ) for six months.

Due to a few issues we can't get married until i've got about one month left of the six months ( sometime around november )


The thing is, we are going to apply to extend my temporary residency on the grounds that we want to stay together whilst the permanent residency application is going through.

This is the question : will they want us to have plenty of savings in the bank to prove i can support myself while i am waiting for the permanent residency via spousal sponsoship to go through ?

I understand that finances arent taken into acount for spousal sponshorship ( as long as my wife isnt on welfare whcih she isnt )

But we just wanted to know if we will have to have savings in the bank so that the extension of my temporary residency is succesful .

Hope you understand the question.

Thanks

MaTeh

[deedee]

hello, in the spousal sponsorship category you do not need to qualify for a minimum salary in order to sponsor your spouse, nor do you need to provide bank records or information, other than to prove that you are working and not on government assistance.