Outland Spousal Sponsorship - When to enter Canada

[Maplekoala]

Hello

I am brand new here and have just started researching Spousal Sponsorship.

My husband is a Canadian/Australian citizen who has lived outside of Canada for nearly 20 years (mostly in America), I am an Australian citizen. We currently both live in Australia and are considering moving to Canada.

I understand that an Outland application (as it would be) takes approximately 12 months from the Sydney office, but I would like to know once a permanent residency visa is approved, how long would we have to enter Canada? It is a big decision to move and I am trying to gauge the time-frames we have to work with.

Many thanks (I am sure I will be back with more questions but I do plan to research as much as I can first on this forum!)


MK

 

[MilesAway]

Sydney used to be one of the fastest offices, with some people being done within 2-4 months. You'd have to check the Sydney thread to see what the current trends are.
The visa expiry is generally linked to the date of your medicals. It usually expires 12 months after your medicals were done. So if you did your medicals on July 2017, you should have until July 2018 to land.

 

[Hurlabrick]

MilesAway is correct, in that when the CoPR is issued, it will have an expiry date, which is the date that you must land in Canada to declare permanent residence. That date is usually one year from the date of your medical.

However, that does not necessarily mean that you have to have sold up and be moving permanently by that date.

So you can 'land to declare Permanent Residence (i.e. activate your CoPR)' in Canada, stay for a couple of days (or get the next plane back) then return to Oz to sell up.

You can then do a later landing where you 'land as settler' which would be when you move permanently to Canada and declare your 'goods accomanying' and 'goods to follow' etc.

Some reading about it here:

http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Spousal_Sponsorship-Canada/FAQ_-_New_Application_Forms#I.27m_not_ready_to_move.21_What_do_I_do.3F

 

[Maplekoala]

Thank you so much for your replies. At first glance it looks like Sydney has about a 12 month period of processing. I will keep a little eye on it as we look into this further. I understand about the landing date now too.

Warm wishes

MK

 

[miss_tizzle]

We are doing outland Australia right now and Australia is a lot quicker than the 12 month timeframe. 12 months is the basic range they give all outland. You can get PR status anywhere from 4-8 months with Australia. We submitted Feb 8th and we got our AOR2 April 12th. I suspect my husband will have PR by August at the latest. And they're right, it's based on your medical. And you can declare.