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No. You're not on welfare, you're ok to sponsor.

What are you, 12?

Yes, exactly this. You can get a Social Insurance Number the second you land but they do not give cards anymore. When you need it for work, you just give the employer the number.

What province?

InfoLock, can you pls clarify? You're talking about the Confirmation of Permanent Residence (COPR), correct? The PR card normally comes several weeks after landing in Canada.

On it's own, it shouldn't be an issue. I sponsored my wife and we'd only been physically together a grand total of 6 weeks. This is your spouse, correct? We're not talking about a conjugal application?

Thank you and +1 for the info!

+1 bartjones

Absolutely! Keep in mind they have different objectives.

Do you have anything that would support that? I would expect the opposite, war would bring extra scrutiny and the ability to get information from governments would be severely impacted.

Re: Considering withdrawing application Agreed.

Re: Considering withdrawing application - opinions? Did you apply as common-law? And what was the nature of the additional information they wanted?

What province are you in?

In general, I would give high-level and emotion-free answers. Stick to the facts and keep it simple. For the wedding, I would give the number of people that attendend and definitely point out what close family members were there, ie, your parents and siblings, your spouse's family, etc.

Further to what Scylla said, it doesn't matter who wants the divorce, the rules are the rules.

Kangamoose?!? Dammit, I wish I'd thought of that! +1 because jealousy

You can get divorced for 3 reasons in Canada, 2 of which can be started without being separated for a year 1)Infidelity - very hard to prove, will take a long time to finalize and expensive process 2)Cruelty - same as above And, of course: 3)Separation for 1 year. It's the easiest, cheapest and...

For an Australian applying outland, 11 months would be really, really long! Having said that, I wouldn't delay. If need be can you go a few months without working?

You don't get to choose the visa office. Australians rarely get called for interviews. I would say it's probably closer to triple or worse for inland. We were done and dusted in exactly 6 months.

A minor point, but when they say Act of Parliament, they're referring specifically to Canadian federal law. In other words, they don't want to know about your speeding ticket (provincial law) or that time you didn't cut the lawn so you got a fine (municipal law).