HAS ANYONE applied for spousal visa from Chile?

[Kferg]

Any Canadian/Chilean couples out there? Any advice?

 

[majesty]

Any Canadian/Chilean couples out there? Any advice?

I am sponsoring my common-law partner from Chile. We are doing outland sponsorship. My partner is residing in Chile until this process is over (hopefully in the next few months). We are almost at the 9 month mark in processing. Have you applied yet? If you have any questions about the process before the PPR stage, I can share my experiences. Good luck to you!

 

[Kferg]

No. We haven’t applied yet. We are in the process of getting all our documents together. We’re hoping to get it all together soon.
I’m moving back to Canada in December for a job and he’s staying here while It processes.

I have a question about translating documents- did you have to translated support documents/proof of relationship? Like bank statements, phone bills etc or just official things like birth certificates?

Did you apply for the work permit for your partner as well? Did you have to translate their University degrees?

I just don’t want to pay if I don’t have to.

 

[majesty]

No. We haven’t applied yet. We are in the process of getting all our documents together. We’re hoping to get it all together soon.
I’m moving back to Canada in December for a job and he’s staying here while It processes.

I have a question about translating documents- did you have to translated support documents/proof of relationship? Like bank statements, phone bills etc or just official things like birth certificates?

Did you apply for the work permit for your partner as well? Did you have to translate their University degrees?

I just don’t want to pay if I don’t have to.

I answered your questions as good as I could in your other post. My partner is in Chile and we applied outland. We never had joint bank accounts, but he was living here in Canada with me while he was on a Working Holiday Visa, when we became common-law and so most of our proof of relationship stuff pertaining to financial things were in English as we did have joint credit cards and he is listed as a beneficiary under my RRSP's and life insurance policy which I hold in Canada. I never lived in Chile so didn't have documents pertaining to me in Spanish except for my partner's life insurance/death benefits policy through his workplace and this we did have certified translations done for it. If your husband is applying for an OWP (are you doing inland sponsorship then?) and he needs to submit his university degree, then I would say get a certified translation for that.

 

[Kferg]

I answered your questions as good as I could in your other post. My partner is in Chile and we applied outland. We never had joint bank accounts, but he was living here in Canada with me while he was on a Working Holiday Visa, when we became common-law and so most of our proof of relationship stuff pertaining to financial things were in English as we did have joint credit cards and he is listed as a beneficiary under my RRSP's and life insurance policy which I hold in Canada. I never lived in Chile so didn't have documents pertaining to me in Spanish except for my partner's life insurance/death benefits policy through his workplace and this we did have certified translations done for it. If your husband is applying for an OWP (are you doing inland sponsorship then?) and he needs to submit his university degree, then I would say get a certified translation for that.

Thanks....maybe lets keep it to this post to avoid confusion. Hahaha.

Do I need to be doing inland sponsorship to apply for the OWP? I said on the other post, We are applying from Chile but I am going back to Canada in December for a job and he is planning to stay here while the OWP or the visa are processing as he has some family stuff to sort out first. I don't know if this will complicate things?

Or do you think it will be better to apply inland and he just comes with me in December. ARGH! This is all so confusing.

 

[majesty]

Thanks....maybe lets keep it to this post to avoid confusion. Hahaha.

Do I need to be doing inland sponsorship to apply for the OWP? I said on the other post, We are applying from Chile but I am going back to Canada in December for a job and he is planning to stay here while the OWP or the visa are processing as he has some family stuff to sort out first. I don't know if this will complicate things?

Or do you think it will be better to apply inland and he just comes with me in December. ARGH! This is all so confusing.

Ok sure!
My understanding is that if you apply inland, the applicant has to remain in Canada for the duration of the sponsorship process. You might want to check the website under inland processing. So if your spouse has to remain in Chile, I would say either he should first take care of his affairs and then you apply and he goes back to Canada before application and remains there until the process is finished (aside from a week or 2 to leave the country) and then he can stay with you and work if he gets an OWP or else he will have to stay in Chile to wait out the process as an outland applicant. In this case, I think it would be OK for him to visit you for a few weeks as Chilean citizens only require a eTA and no visas and that he can show proof that he has ties to Chile and will be returning there if it's just to visit you (actually I think he is entitled to stay up to 6 months to visit you at the discretion of CBSA, but can't work and will remain on visitor status). If you are a Canadian citizen, you are free to travel to Chile or wherever to see your spouse. If you are a PR however, I think there are more restrictions on the amount of time you are allowed to be out of Canada while the application is being processed.

However, outland applicants under family sponsorship are not eligible to get an OWP, unfortunately. Supposedly, inland applications and outland applications are all supposed to be processed (80%) within 12 months. Before Dec 7, 2016, it took much longer for inland applications to be processed. So I would say if you can wait until your spouse has his affairs in order to apply do that as he can work and remain with you in Canada if that is what you guys want to do.

 

[Kferg]

Thanks so much. You have been really helpful and a lot clearer than the CIC website. HAHA.

 

[geografa]

Any Canadian/Chilean couples out there? Any advice?

Close! I'm sponsoring my common-law partner from your Argentinian neighbour across the Andes..

 

[geografa]

I answered your questions as good as I could in your other post. My partner is in Chile and we applied outland. We never had joint bank accounts, but he was living here in Canada with me while he was on a Working Holiday Visa, when we became common-law and so most of our proof of relationship stuff pertaining to financial things were in English as we did have joint credit cards and he is listed as a beneficiary under my RRSP's and life insurance policy which I hold in Canada. I never lived in Chile so didn't have documents pertaining to me in Spanish except for my partner's life insurance/death benefits policy through his workplace and this we did have certified translations done for it. If your husband is applying for an OWP (are you doing inland sponsorship then?) and he needs to submit his university degree, then I would say get a certified translation for that.

Just to add to that one- we did translate EVERYTHING. We translated FB conversations, WhatsApp conversations, the stamps in my passport showing I have been visiting him, plane tickets from when we were both living in South America but in different countries, etc. etc. It is totally weird to read your personal messages from WhatsApp translated into English by a stranger lol! They don't quite pick up on the 'modismos' which gives some pretty hilarious results!
We are ALL lucky Mexico VO people...yikes

 

[majesty]

Just to add to that one- we did translate EVERYTHING. We translated FB conversations, WhatsApp conversations, the stamps in my passport showing I have been visiting him, plane tickets from when we were both living in South America but in different countries, etc. etc. It is totally weird to read your personal messages from WhatsApp translated into English by a stranger lol! They don't quite pick up on the 'modismos' which gives some pretty hilarious results!
We are ALL lucky Mexico VO people...yikes

You played it safe .... it is probably the best thing to do ... however, we didn't translate every single thing that was in Spanish, not because we didn't want to play it safe, just an oversight, because I am pretty anal retentive, but nevertheless we were up to our eyeballs trying to include our 20 pages of passport stamps since I have been to Chile 5 or 6 times as well as Argentina and having been in 7 countries in Europe (probably another reason the security check will take longer) and my partner having come to Canada a few times.

If you can translate everything, it's better, but if we certified translations with the passport stamps, we would have had to take out a loan! lol!