Just gonna make this a question for anyone who knows to answer.....

[SmoothiesQueen]

Ok I'm the Canadian, my husband is the one being sponsered. I have a job to come back to Canada to, as I currently live with my husband. My husband also has a job offer.

Here's my question:

Does the government monitor all of this to make sure our wage and job stay the same as what we put on our immigration papers. I ask this because...what if I wanted to switch jobs at some point...or go back to school. Or what if my husband went back to school. Or what if due to being a mom...I choose to cut down to part time hours?

Am I free to do this? Or what if I decide since my husband is working fulltime at a good wage...I'm going to be a stay at home mom until my kids are a bit older? Do I have to stay at the same job with the same hours and wage until my husband is no longer a PR but a citizen?

I'm just confused on this issue.

[kelKel]

Absolutely not.  You have the right to work, stay home, work part time whatever you choose! 

[SmoothiesQueen]

So I basically just need to prove that I do have a job to come home to to start...and make sure that whatever I choose to do...I support my family like I promised on the forms...and that we never seek social assistance. Beyond that we good?

Thank goodness!!!

Its not that I'm not gonna be doing what I say I'm gonna be doing when I write this out for immigration. Its just knowing if I choose not to, that I would have the freedom.

So really I was just checking my rights here lol lol!! Cuz I didn't want to say two years down the road decide to stay home...and get some call from immigration saying they've been monitering my wages and noticed they've gone down, as have my working hours and wth....or wondering why I've switched jobs from the one I put on my application.

[kelKel]

Don't worry.  Could you imagine the manpower it woukd take to keep track of everyone and what their current employment was . They do this for other streams of immigration such as business, investor or self employed.  For example a stipulation of their visa is that they start and invest money in a business and years later it's found out they have just been working as an accountant.  There are no such rules for sponsors.

Circumstances change,  babies are born,  people change careers.  This is life and they can't control all these factors! 

[SmoothiesQueen]

Thank you so much kelkel....you took a load off my shoulders. I just wanted to know for sure. This whole process is so confusing my worst fear is doing something wrong to jeapordize it when we've taken such effort to do everything by the book to avoid delays or any confusion!

[kelKel]

Believe me I understand!  Its over for us but I still  have a fear something will go wrong 

[SmoothiesQueen]

especially with the new immigration laws coming in about the two year conditional PR. I kinda support it....but at the same time...I'm always hesitant with these things because often the law has good intentions but sometimes when it's being enforced...it can go a little haywire.

Thats wonderful its over for you guys! I bet that was a relief and a half!!

[missmini]

loooool to KelKel, it's over now...but me too, i tend to worry too much abt thinks, so i think i'll do the same 

my answer now based on common sense: i don't think they monitor anything; first, it's not a sworn declaration, second it's something u declare and sign currently but neither u nor them know what will happen in 1 year time; sometimes if the process takes too long and they need updates, they will ask again

so don't worry, the most imp for them is to see that u can both financially support urselves and future family for the next 3 years (it does not matter if it's with the current job or other future job or through scholarships from university or u staying home and only ur husband working)