I agree that family sponsorship and adding a spouse during the end of refugee application process is very different. The timeline is different.But it's the same method with spousal sponsorship. Because your spouse needs to get biometric, medical and she needs to send her passport to visa office at the emd of process, same method, same process. But the difference is:
- In " add on process" you don't need to provide a lot of evidences for IRCC
- But in "sponsorship process" you have to provide a lot of evidences for IRCC
Even the medical exam "passing" condition is different. Not sure about specifically refugee but for non-family sponsorship, if the spouse is deteremined to have excessive medical demand, the application can be refused. Same for most of the criminal and background check. Any of the princple applicant or the dependent (spouse is this case) can result in refusal.
BUT for family sponsorship of a spouse of a PR/Canadian citizen, the PA (in this case the spouse), will not be refused based on medical check. Timeline of the sponsorship is also not 2 years. You are posting in the wrong section and the wrong discussion and therefore, you will get wrong answers.
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