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My wife and I filed for outland spousal sponsorship in mid-August of 2022 and we haven't heard anything back from IRCC. Obviously it'd be pretty early to expect a decision or request for more information or an interview, but shouldn't we have received an acknowledgement of receipt by now? We've...

Hi there. After many months of doing and redoing our application my wife and I are finally ready to submit our packet for spousal sponsorship. But since IRCC updated their fees, I needed to pay a small amount more. When I got the receipt for that, though, I noticed the expiration date was listed...

Hi there. I have three questions about paying my fees for my spousal sponsorship application. 1. My wife and I have been working on our application for quite some time, and IRCC has increased the application fees for applications for permanent residence this year. We paid about a year ago for...

Hey there. My wife and I are getting ready to submit our application for sponsorship and as part of the financial requirements we need to submit her Notice of Assessment from last year from the CRA. We just downloaded the file from the CRA website, but the document says it will be issued August...

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Lol understood! Thank you. As for: The only thing I'd ask as a follow-up here is- does the math change at all if we haven't lived together and we don't have kids? We've been in a relationship for 5 years but probably spent less than 2 collectively together, and never more than 2-3 months at a...

Greetings. My wife and I are filing for family-class sponsorship so that I can come to Canada and live with her. We have finished our paperwork and we are now writing a cover letter. We've told the story of our relationship over the course of about 10 pages- how we met, some details about...

Hey there. My wife and I (Canadian, U.S., respectively) are about to send in our application for spousal sponsorship and we're a bit worried that our documents showing our relationship is recognized are a bit sparse. Right now we have "Documentary evidence of financial support between you and...

Hi there. I am applying for residence in Canada under the family class, specifically spousal sponsorship. I have a police certificate to include with my application, but it was issued in April. We will likely be submitting our application in mid-January. Does anyone know for certain how long a...

Hi there. Quick question about the visit information section on IMM 5532 (the table for Part C, Question 4). The form says to fill out the "to" and "from" date columns in YYYY-MM format (like 2020-03 for March of 2020). Yet when I enter a date in this format, I get an error message telling me to...

Thanks for the reply! I'm glad that worked- I think I'll do something similar. I've already put together a document with clippings of each travel receipt. This summarized version takes up about 7 pages. I think I'll include the full receipts in the package after that packet, and explain why both...

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Howdy, folks. My wife and I are wrapping up my application for her to sponsor me for PR status via the family class category. I'm doing our proof of relationship and proof of visit documents (section 7 in "Supporting Documents for Sponsored Persons" on IMM 5533). I was hoping to get some input...

Sorry to reply so much later. I requested my FBI police certificate. That came up with nothing. I just sent for my unredacted, state police record just in case. As of right now, though, I have very little information about the case. I know it was around when I was 16 or so, so 2014ish. I know...

Got it. Thank you for the info!

Thank you for this reply- it covered basically all of my questions. We do indeed have proof of many visits, so I don't anticipate an issue there. I'm currently employed at ~30 hours a week. Would you suggest holding off on the application until I increase these hours/my income, or do you think...

That's extremely good to hear. I've asked this elsewhere, but do you think I should declare this record? It's not on my FBI report, I've sent a request to my state police for an unredacted version in case it's there. If it is, should I include it? Assuming 2 years before getting married (or...

Unfortunately, she is just starting school this fall. She won't be graduating for a few years. I work in a warehouse so while I'm sure I'll be able to find some work when I arrive, I don't think I can say my skills are in demand in any real sense.

Hi there. I'm a US citizen trying to gain permanent residence in Canada to live with my wife, who is a Canadian citizen. I am at a crossroads with how we should file our paperwork. I apologize that I'm just asking for general advice here, but this is sort of where I'm at. We have worked through...

Great, thank you for the advice!