Spousal sponsorship based on court marriage

[User853582]

I just recently received my ECOPR and am still waiting for my PR Card to be delivered. I plan on getting married in a couple of months after receiving my PR card. My would-be husband is an overseas applicant. We have been in a relationship for only six months, but this is 100% legit. It is family family-arranged marriage. Considering our current financial stage, we are planning to do a court marriage in India and apply for Spousal sponsorship right after legal marriage. We will do it big family event after 6 months. How will this impact my application? What extra documents should I be attaching to get it passed successfully? Is it advisable to take an IRCC consultant's help for filing, or can I do it by myself? I don't have enough money to pay to consultant, but also considering the current rejection rate, I don't want to take a risk on a spouse application.

Also, is it advisable to file his application right after the court marriage, considering I am a recent PR, or are this no issues? Thank you in advance.

 

[scylla]

I just recently received my ECOPR and am still waiting for my PR Card to be delivered. I plan on getting married in a couple of months after receiving my PR card. My would-be husband is an overseas applicant. We have been in a relationship for only six months, but this is 100% legit. It is family family-arranged marriage. Considering our current financial stage, we are planning to do a court marriage in India and apply for Spousal sponsorship right after legal marriage. We will do it big family event after 6 months. How will this impact my application? What extra documents should I be attaching to get it passed successfully? Is it advisable to take an IRCC consultant's help for filing, or can I do it by myself? I don't have enough money to pay to consultant, but also considering the current rejection rate, I don't want to take a risk on a spouse application.

Also, is it advisable to file his application right after the court marriage, considering I am a recent PR, or are this no issues? Thank you in advance.

Since it's a family arranged marriage, wait until all of the marriage and celebration formalities are completed, including the big family event, before submitting the sponsorship application.

 

[User853582]

Since it's a family arranged marriage, wait until all of the marriage and celebration formalities are completed, including the big family event, before submitting the sponsorship application.

Thank you, Should I apply under Spousal sponsorship or family class which is the best? it will be outland application

 

[scylla]

Thank you, Should I apply under Spousal sponsorship or family class which is the best? it will be outland application

You don't chose between the two if you are applying outland. You either apply inland or outland.

 

[Ram89]

I just recently received my ECOPR and am still waiting for my PR Card to be delivered. I plan on getting married in a couple of months after receiving my PR card. My would-be husband is an overseas applicant. We have been in a relationship for only six months, but this is 100% legit. It is family family-arranged marriage. Considering our current financial stage, we are planning to do a court marriage in India and apply for Spousal sponsorship right after legal marriage. We will do it big family event after 6 months. How will this impact my application? What extra documents should I be attaching to get it passed successfully? Is it advisable to take an IRCC consultant's help for filing, or can I do it by myself? I don't have enough money to pay to consultant, but also considering the current rejection rate, I don't want to take a risk on a spouse application.

Also, is it advisable to file his application right after the court marriage, considering I am a recent PR, or are this no issues? Thank you in advance.

Hi op. Did you eventually do court marriage and apply for spousal sponsorship before actual wedding ceremony ? Did they ask for any additional proof of wedding

In my case I am planning to apply after engagement and court marriage

 

[armoured]

You don't chose between the two if you are applying outland. You either apply inland or outland.

To be clear: 'inland' corresponds to 'spousal or common-law partner living in Canada' class, 'outland' is 'family class.' Outland is the only option available for those whose spouse's or outside Canada.

Only clarifying that inland/outland are commonly referred to but they're not the terminology used on the forms.

 

[hotsalsa]

Hello, I can confirm that it is acceptable to apply for spousal sponsorship even after a super-intimate court marriage. I have done the same and have an application in progress (refer signature). We plan to do a bigger, more traditional wedding celebration later on, if we feel like. But for now, yes, it is alright to apply for spousal sponsorship as long as you can provide the exhaustive list of documents and information to IRCC.

 

[abff08f4813c]

To be clear: 'inland' corresponds to 'spousal or common-law partner living in Canada' class, 'outland' is 'family class.' Outland is the only option available for those whose spouse's or outside Canada.

Only clarifying that inland/outland are commonly referred to but they're not the terminology used on the forms.

Agreed, that is helpful to know.

Alas, what's extra confusing about the terminology used by the forms themselves is that, under the law, "family class" seems to cover both cases (or in other words, "family class" seems to cover both inland and outland - which is different to how you explain it works on the form).

(The main example on my mind here, perhaps because I just went through a bunch of posts about it recently, is the "forgot to mention my marriage to IRCC before I landed" case. Obviously trying to loophole through this by getting your spouse into Canada under some other visa/permit independently and then using your own PR to sponsor your spouse inland isn't going to work.)

E.g. if you look at IRPR 117(9)(d) which you can find here: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-2002-227/section-117.html

(9) A foreign national shall not be considered a member of the family class by virtue of their relationship to a sponsor if

• .... the sponsor previously made an application for permanent residence and became a permanent resident and, at the time of that application, the foreign national was a non-accompanying family member of the sponsor and was not examined.