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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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    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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    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...