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    Spousal sponsorship new intake announced for July 2 2026

    Well, this is just horrific. They're opening the spousal sponsorship pathway after the processing pause, now with well over 40,000 applications in the queue, and have announced an intake quota of 14,000 in the next two-year period, and they're only opening it at first for people whose AoR from...
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    Order of letters: eligibility to sponsor/AOR/R10 completeness?

    Hi - sanity check, I have read people's timelines where they get a separate AOR letter indicating R10 completeness, and then afterwards they get a letter to say the sponsor has been found eligible. Is this correct/usual? We submitted mid-February, received confirmation of submission at the...
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    Medical Exam and Open Work Permit (OWP) – Outland Spousal Sponsorship

    Yes, it is legal to say, for example, that you want to visit temporarily for 1 month, while also waiting to move more permanently in, say, 12 months. And the officer will take into account your dual intent when deciding to give the TRV. To convince the officer of the temporary nature of the...
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    Medical Exam and Open Work Permit (OWP) – Outland Spousal Sponsorship

    Yes, but you would have just submitted a TRV request proving to the agent that you will return to your country after the visit you are applying for, that it's necessary for you to go back, for reasons X Y and Z, and impossible that you would overstay. Then once you get to Canada, oops, those...
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    Medical Exam and Open Work Permit (OWP) – Outland Spousal Sponsorship

    How is it "supposed to work" for sponsored spouses who need a TRV to visit Canada: they have to first prove temporary intent (dual intent) to get the TRV in the first place, then they are allowed to apply for an OWP but expected to be able to wait almost a year (presumably in Canada), which...
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    February 2026-Outland spousal sponsorship

    Is your information up to date? I absolutely realize that you can't trust information online but I can find several sources saying things similar to the following which I am pasting in: Yes, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has implemented more accommodating measures for...
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    PR Portal - Proof of Relationship to Sponsor File Limits?

    Oh man, I didn't bother with air ticket receipts. I figured my passport stamps, and photos of us together in ten different trips to my spouse's home country would be enough. And this morning I realized that a page I had copied from my airBnB booking history, to show that I had booked rooms in my...
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    PR Portal - Proof of Relationship to Sponsor File Limits?

    We just submitted today after going through all that... there is a limit of ten files per category. Because of that we combined photos into one document (which was very hard to get under the file size limit). I was going to put the 20 photos into 4 different files, but my spouse instead put them...
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    Spousal sponsorship: is it still true that an outland application with an accompanying minor child is exempt from the Quebec processing cap?

    And if so, does this only exempt the application from the initial CSQ wait, or also from the long wait at the end when Quebec puts a bottleneck on the number of sponsored spouses actually granted PR?
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    Spousal sponsorship question for QC

    Is this true? I am about to submit (outland) and have been told the opposite: that they will actually do the first federal part now, just up to where they tell you the application is complete, you're eligible to sponsor, and the next step is to apply to Quebec for the undertaking etc. So they...
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    Expected timeline for new outland spousal sponsorship applications after the pause is lifted?

    Thank you -- could you confirm one thing for me? After Quebec emits the CSQ, is there any other Quebec-based bottleneck that is known about, or is the process from that point on all identical to any other federal application? I ask because I can't figure out why the expected times are currently...
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    The timeline of 2023 Spouse sponsorship application from Quebec

    Hi, do you know why it took 11 months from the IRCC application to invite you to submit the CSQ application?
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    Expected timeline for new outland spousal sponsorship applications after the pause is lifted?

    Hello, I'm about ready to submit the application to sponsor my spouse, who is living outside Canada. I'm counting on being given the ok to go ahead to submit to Quebec before the pause is lifted on June 26. First, is this a reasonable assumption--do we know what the current processing times are...