marriage in Quebec Canada

[IAMQT143]

Hello everyone,.I'm new here,hope you can help me..me and my partner ( canadian) been living together in Thailand for 3 years..now I applied for a tourist visa , if I'll be granted a visa we are planning to married
when i get there..my partner was not living in Canada for almost 4 years he went home last January 2016 and stayed only for two weeks..So my questions are,
1.After marriage does my partner can still sponsor my PR?even he was not living there for almost 4 years?can I stay with him while processing my spouse visa or do I need to go out of the country?
thank you so much for your help..

 

[John013]

Hello everyone,.I'm new here,hope you can help me..me and my partner ( canadian) been living together in Thailand for 3 years..now I applied for a tourist visa , if I'll be granted a visa we are planning to married
when i get there..my partner was not living in Canada for almost 4 years he went home last January 2016 and stayed only for two weeks..So my questions are,
1.After marriage does my partner can still sponsor my PR?even he was not living there for almost 4 years?can I stay with him while processing my spouse visa or do I need to go out of the country?
thank you so much for your help..

Yes, he can sponsor you no problem. And yes you can stay with him in Canada as long as your keep a valid status, like you can keep extending your visitor visa but this wont work indefinitely. You should know that inland applications take a lot longer than outland, so it might be faster to go back to Thailand and let him sponsor you from there, average processing times for outland applications are now 12 months.

 

[manbrar]

hello i apply spouse visa for my husband who lives in india. we sent our file to mississauga on may 30th and we still didnt get any response. u guys have any idea how long they will take ? thnku

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Yes, he can sponsor you no problem. And yes you can stay with him in Canada as long as your keep a valid status, like you can keep extending your visitor visa but this wont work indefinitely. You should know that inland applications take a lot longer than outland, so it might be faster to go back to Thailand and let him sponsor you from there, average processing times for outland applications are now 12 months.

It is perfectly fine for a person to be in Canada while an outland app processes. There would be no need for OP to return to Thailand. Note that 12 months is NOT the average processing time; that is IRCC's hopeful benchmark processing time.