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    First Time Filing Tax in Quebec: Outland Spousal Sponsorship

    My wife and I moved to Montreal last year after she was accepted for Outland Spousal Sponsorship. She has been working full time and I have been going to university full time soon after we both landed in Canada. This will be our first year filing taxes in Montreal, and we called H&R Block but...
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    Social Assistance Application while Sponsoring Spouse

    My spouse is currently being sponsored by me to live in Canada and she is working while I am going to school. Along with her salary and my part time student loan it is currently not enough for our monthly expenses so I applied for social assistance. During the application they asked for spousal...
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    TD1 Form - Personal Tax Credits Return, Line 7

    I am born in Canada and my wife and I met and were married while traveling overseas. We have lived together overseas and we are now living in Canada after we waited for IRCC's approval for her Outland Spousal Sponsorhip. Right now I am a full time student and only have personal savings and a...
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    Spousal Sponsorship: Arriving in Canada

    My wife is approved for her outland spousal sponsorship and she has the Canadian Single Entrance Visa in her passport to allow for entry into Canada. (We applied December 2020) We will be flying from overseas to Montreal together in a few weeks and are actually not sure what the next steps are...
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Email from IRCC

    Ah yes, of course - that makes sense. Thanks, will do!
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Email from IRCC

    Yep, we have timed the medical exam to not surpass a 365 day duration before our 1 way flights to Canada. Now, we are both fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine (Pfizer), but whether or not Government of Canada requests that we quarantine for 2 weeks by the summer of 2022 is still to be...
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Email from IRCC

    Luckily we are not in a rush to move, and we made that clear in our intent to move. We have been going with the official timeline of 18 months given by IRCC at the time of our application, as we are learning they can be quite different depending on the application / luck. Our plane tickets are...
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Email from IRCC

    My wife, the primary applicant, received the following PDF in email today. We mailed our Outland Spousal Sponsorship application to IRCC back in December of 2020 and have already submitted the biometrics, doctor visit, and further proof of our intent to move. Is this the final piece to...
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    Permanent Residence Card: Medical and Dental Coverage

    Hi everyone, My wife is being sponsored via Outland Spousal Sponsorship while we are living overseas and getting ready to move back to Canada next summer. She will be getting a PR card upon entry into Canada, but we are wondering how medical will work - will she be covered upon entry into...
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Creating a Backup Plan (Just in Case)

    Hi all, We mailed our outland spousal sponsorship on December 20, 2020, and have completed the biometrics, medical, and CSQ, so we are just waiting to hear back from IRCC. The final approval. We believe our application package to be very strong. But sometimes things are out of our control...
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Canadian University

    Is it considered "bad" in the eyes of IRCC to have the Canadian sponsor moving back to Canada to go to university? Do they need to see the sponsor working full-time? I plan on working part-time, along with going to university. But I would expect university life to take most of my time...
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    Proof of sponsor's intention to return to Canada

    We are getting very concerned about our outland spousal sponsorship approval. We mailed our application package on December 20, 2020 with the intention of moving to Canada by mid-June 2021. We checked online for the timeframe involved and it matched, so we have been planning for this date...
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship: June 15, 2022 Intended Date for Flight to Canada?

    Hi all, I have created a new thread to ask this particular question (now that we better understand the situation, I hope this is OK to make a new thread about our more focused question). We mailed our outland sponsorship package to IRCC in Canada on December 20, 2020 and our desired date of...
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    Looking for assitance with replying to email: Section 130(2)

    Also, my spouse's medical exam was completed on July 13th - we understand that the outland spouse and sponsor must leave the country to fly to Canada within 1 year after the medical exam.
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    Looking for assitance with replying to email: Section 130(2)

    June 2022 is our intended date to arrive in Canada, assuming we receive the approved.. As I mentioned above we understood the processing time would be approximately 18 months after application...
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    Looking for assitance with replying to email: Section 130(2)

    Thank you for the reply. We mailed our outland sponsorship package to Canada at the end of December 2020 with plans to move to Canada by June 2022. This is because on the official IRCC website it says approximately 18 months processing time (Quebec sponsorship taking longer than other...
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    Looking for assitance with replying to email: Section 130(2)

    Thank you for the helpful reply. So it sounds like they did not deny us but they are asking for more info. We also hope there are no red flags that will forever remain in their system due to this: “I am reviewing your application for a permanent resident visa as a member of the family class. I...
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    Looking for assitance with replying to email: Section 130(2)

    My wife and I are doing an outland spousal sponsorship. We have already received emails from IRCC regarding the federal approval for the sponsorship, have completed the biometrics within the first few months, and up until now we thought everything was going well so far. After scanning and...
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Timeframe

    So with that being said, we should be approved before July, 2022?
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    Outland Spousal Sponsorship - Timeframe

    Hi folks, - We mailed our Outland Spousal Sponsorship from overseas to IRCC December 23, 2020. - Spouse completed biometrics earlier this year. - Requested medical exam with panel physician is underway this week. - CSQ (for Quebec) is being processed and will expect it in approximately 30 days...