Chance for unemployed wife to obtain TRV to visit husband in Canada?

[kingstonc]

We have submitted the PR application through family class sponsorship. As we understand, our TRV application will receive faster processing once we attach the AOR from the PR application. Our question is: how much chance do we have to obtain the TRV if my wife is unemployed? Would it help if my wife's parents write a letter promising they would hire her in their family business after her stay with me for six months?

Would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.

 

[Kaibigan]

We have submitted the PR application through family class sponsorship. As we understand, our TRV application will receive faster processing once we attach the AOR from the PR application. Our question is: how much chance do we have to obtain the TRV if my wife is unemployed? Would it help if my wife's parents write a letter promising they would hire her in their family business after her stay with me for six months?

Would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.

Lack of employment won'y hurt much if wife's application is otherwise solid. By that, I refer to such things as having a hefty bank account (without being artificially stuffed proximate to filing the TRV application); a travel history to places like U.S., U.K., Australia, etc., maybe a nice real estate portfolio back home; young kids anxiously awaiting her return, etc.

I do not think parents' letter will carry much clout. I take it you refer to a family business in her home country. If much turns on that, why is she not working there now?

 

[kingstonc]

Lack of employment won'y hurt much if wife's application is otherwise solid. By that, I refer to such things as having a hefty bank account (without being artificially stuffed proximate to filing the TRV application); a travel history to places like U.S., U.K., Australia, etc., maybe a nice real estate portfolio back home; young kids anxiously awaiting her return, etc.

I do not think parents' letter will carry much clout. I take it you refer to a family business in her home country. If much turns on that, why is she not working there now?

Thank you for the quick reply Kaibigan. My wife's application is not solid without the employment. She has about $12000 in savings. She only travelled to Thailand before. We don't have real estate or kids.

She is not working for her parents because we've been living together in another city in China until a week ago. Do you think it will help if she returns to her parents and works for them now?

 

[Kaibigan]

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She is not working for her parents because we've been living together in another city in China until a week ago. Do you think it will help if she returns to her parents and works for them now?

Well, that would not hurt, but I would be reluctant to see you two living in separate cities just so she can work for her parents. Particularly if it comes out in the TRV process that the employment is very recent. It might not be seen as a particularly compelling reason for her to return home from Canada.

I should point out that I have read here of some who appear to have weak TRV applications being honest with the IRCC and saying they want to be together in Canada pending PR application decision and they have been given TRVs. In other, similar, cases, TRVs have been denied. So no particular outcome is assured.

With any luck, others here will have more guidance. Things seem to have changed somewhat in light of the "new policy" for TRVs for spousal PR applicants. But, again, for some, not much has changed.

I should also point out that I am ill-qualified to advise in this area. My wife and I applied 3 times for TRV for her. Denied each time. The last application went in about a month before the "new policy" announcement. So I can hardly claim a record of success.