Wait outside canada

[mehmeh]

Hello everyone 

I am sponsoring my mother to come to Canada and was expecting to hear from CIC if I will be approved as a sponsor or not around mid of 2012.  I was told before I need to be physically present in Canada when sponsoring, but does that mean I need to stay in Canada untill my mom got her immigrant visa or I am allowed to live with her outside of Canada right after my approval as sponsor?  My mom had been living by herself since I migrated to Canada and I felt bad of letting her live a lonely life for so long so I am planning to go back to live with her until she got her visa.

thanks & best regards,

[wilson]

You can stay out side but you should meet all other requirements as specified by CIC in the guide to qualify for sponsoring your mother.

[scylla]

One of the requirements for sponsoring parents is that the sponsor has to be physically present and living in Canada for both stage 1 and stage 2 of processing. So no - according to the rules, you are not permitted to go and live outside of Canada once stage 1 processing has been completed and you have been approved as a sponsor. If you decide to go and live with your mother at any point while the application is being processed and CIC finds out, the application may be refused.

[mehmeh]

Thank you both for taking time to reply........I might have to decide quick whether to make my mom happy now or let her suffer 3 or more years of loneliness, I don't know if it is worth it to wait for the sponsorship & her immigrant visa before we can live together again since we don't even know what the future holds for us =(