withdrawing previous file

[sedrak]

Hi All,
i applied for a file in my country on 2004

and i came to Canada on 2008 as a visitor,

i got married at the same year 2008 from Canadian citizen,

we applied our file (Under sponsorship marriage status)  in side Canada through lawyer...and we mentioned to him about the  previous file in my country .

He said it's ok leave it, we will not cancel it,that's was around(7) month ago

after that i got a call from him saying you have to sign declaration to cancel the previous file,

the immigration asked for that, i signed it and he sent it

Our Concern  and question Me and my wife is:,

if you please anyone notify us about these questions


-why did our lawyer told us leave the previous file?

- why did the immigration want to cancel it after the lawyer said leave it don't cancel it.

- Would that cancellation (for the previous file) effect our  file under sponsorship status?

Thank you

[RobsLuv]

It's my understanding that you can't have two applications running at the same time - your lawyer probably knew that, at some point, CIC would ask you to cancel one or the other but he was probably wanting to keep the first in process in case there were "issues" with the second (spousal) application. 

The cancellation itself probably won't hurt the sponsorship file - you had to choose one or the other to keep and the lawyer probably chose the sponsorship file because they go faster.  It is possible, though, that the fact that you had applied to come to Canada already - prior to marrying your sponsor - might cause them to question whether your marriage was only entered into to facilitate your entry to Canada.  You may end up being requested to attend an interview to address concerns about your "genuine relationship" . . . that will depend on how strong the evidence was that you submitted with your application.  Hopefully your lawyer helped you with that, and they will be convinced and not require an interview.