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Does My Wife Need to Redo Biometrics for Sponsorship Application?

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amir1993

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Dec 23, 2021
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Hi Friends,
I applied for my wife’s sponsorship on May 24, and after receiving her AOR, I applied for her visitor visa. She completed her biometrics in another country (no VAC in ours), but her visitor visa was refused, and she is now back home.

Today she received a biometric collection request for her sponsorship application. Since biometrics are valid for 10 years, does she need to do them again? Is there a difference between visitor visa biometrics and sponsorship biometrics?

Thanks for your help!
 
amir1993 said:
Hi Friends,
I applied for my wife’s sponsorship on May 24, and after receiving her AOR, I applied for her visitor visa. She completed her biometrics in another country (no VAC in ours), but her visitor visa was refused, and she is now back home.

Today she received a biometric collection request for her sponsorship application. Since biometrics are valid for 10 years, does she need to do them again? Is there a difference between visitor visa biometrics and sponsorship biometrics?

Thanks for your help!
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yes, she need to do it again, just go ahead and provide it at the nearest biometric collection point
 
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thanhtam23 said:
yes, she need to do it again, just go ahead and provide it at the nearest biometric collection point
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Thank you for your help. May I know the reason behind this? It doesn’t make sense. This is the same person with the same fingerprints and the same face, and the biometric procedure is identical.
 
amir1993 said:
Thank you for your help. May I know the reason behind this? It doesn’t make sense. This is the same person with the same fingerprints and the same face, and the biometric procedure is identical.
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beat me :)
i only know they need biometric for every PR application, even it’s for the same person
my wild guess is perhaps they store it somewhere differently?
 
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thanhtam23 said:
my wild guess is perhaps they store it somewhere differently?
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My guess is that they think it's much more important to double-check and confirm biometric data for permanent residents, even if repetitive, so that the records they have are correct. (Info sharing more extensive, etc)
 
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armoured said:
My guess is that they think it's much more important to double-check and confirm biometric data for permanent residents, even if repetitive, so that the records they have are correct. (Info sharing more extensive, etc)
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the main problem is there is no Canadian embassy or VAC in my home country and she has to travel to another country. It'll definitely get expensive ☹️
 
amir1993 said:
the main problem is there is no Canadian embassy or VAC in my home country and she has to travel to another country. It'll definitely get expensive ☹
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Very sorry to hear that. I am sympathetic, just communicating that's the requirement.
 
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