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With most applications, that's true - but not when sponsoring a spouse or dependents. This tends to cause some confusion with the DMPs (I had a lot of trouble convincing mine to do the medical without the visa office requesting it first). But yes, in your case, the medical should definitely be...

With the visa in his passport, I don't think they will give him a hard time. And even if they do get annoying, I can't imagine they would actually send him back or anything. But I've no personal experience of this sort, I never had any trouble with any immigration officer and always found them...

For the first one, yes - say you have not visited your sponsor and explain why (no visa). For the second one - There is a difference between living together and temporarily staying at the same place at the same time. I stayed at my husband's family for 2 months, but I wouldn't call it living...

1.) Considering you've been away for 2 years, yes, you are living exclusively outside of Canada. 2.) Shouldn't be an issue, there is no income requirement to sponsor a spouse. But it would be a good idea to explain what you and your husband plan to do for income once in Canada. 3.) Since...

I'm sorry, I don't think that is true. Having an inland sponsorship application in process does not give him any sort of status, he is expected to maintain his status otherwise - study permit, work permit, visitor's status... He can still be approved for PR without having legal status in Canada...

Since you are a Canadian citizen, that means your daughter is also a Canadian citizen. Because of that, you literally can not sponsor her - she doesn't qualify. So you shouldn't include her as a dependent. As a citizen, she can get a Canadian passport, though I'm not sure about what the...

The normal process is: 1.) you do the medical exam 2.) the doctor sends the results to their regional medical center 3.) when the visa office needs the results, they request them from the regional medical center - that is what they use the IMM 1017 form for. So, it's perfectly normal for Ottawa...

Most people who I've seen have their app transferred from Buffalo to another US office ended up getting their PR soon after that. So yeah, I think it's good. Good luck!

Like BeShooBeShoo said, this happens when they have more questions for you. Basically, they look at the application, see if everything's there and everything looks ok. If yes, then you get first stage approval. If not, they send it to the local CIC office for them to deal with. It's not...

What do you mean by "hold the PR"? I have never heard of such a thing. When your husband enters Canada with the visa in his passport, he will become a PR. Done. There's no holding it. They will ask for an address where they can send the PR card, which needs to be in Canada. In order to remain...

Most countries will not allow a person to have two valid passports. Some ask you to return the old passport, others void it - mine was punched with holes. I would expect the same will happen in his case. So, your husband has two choices: a) submit the old passport, get the visa in it and use the...

The visa: it's a one time use visa. It is put in the passport and voided when used - when the person lands. It is set to expire either when the medical expires (1 year after it was taken) or when the passport expires. Whichever comes first! So in your case, if you send the current passport and...

Hmmm. Well, since he hasn't landed yet, he can go home after getting the passport and land upon his return to Canada. That would be perfectly fine. Assuming the visa will be valid that long, it's only valid for as long as the medical is valid (one year since it was taken) or until the passport...

As said before, in order to be able to sponsor, you have to show you intend to move to Canada when your spouse gets her PR. Not years later, but at the same time she gets her PR/lands to become a PR. How long until you get the US citizenship? If it's still years away, then now is too early to...

The checklist (IMM 5491) lists all the forms that have to be sent in - both by the sponsor and the applicant. The sequence of the documents is not super important, though it's advisable to order them as the checklist (IMM 5491) lists them. So yes, the sponsor would open up the spouse's pack...

You don't apply for a PR card, it's automatically ordered when the person lands and become a PR. It will be sent to the address in Canada that he supplies at the time of landing. Since he would normally need a visa to enter Canada, then yes, he will need the PR card to come back into Canada.

1.) I don't know what the process is like in Guatemala. Find out what it takes for a Guatemalan citizen to marry a foreigner in Guatemala and then you'll see. Unless they issue a marriage certificate in English (my country did that, I didn't need to do anything other with it), then yes, you will...

I'll give it a shot :) 1.) I covered this one in a letter explaining how our relationship developed from the first meeting until the time we filed my application. You don't have to include every single detail, just mentioning the trip is enough. If you did anything special on the trip (meeting...

This has happened before. Another couple got their PR app transferred to Belgrade and they got the visa from there, not Vienna. I know Belgrade is not supposed to deal with PR applications, but it seems recently they've moved up and they do that as well. There's a thread about it here...

Yes, you can pay online. If you pay online, you will get the receipt in a file. Print it, fill it out and send it in. The "stamped by an institution" thing only applies if you're paying the old fashioned way - at a bank for example, using a form you have to order from CIC.