Help regarding spousal sponsorship

[jaggy999]

Hi everyone,

My wife is an MBA(17 yrs of education) in India and I'm a BSc graduate(15years of education).

She is younger to me and we both belong to same caste/religion.

Can the fact that she is more educated than me, create any doubt in visa officer's mind?

I'm thinking of providing a explanation for the same.

Kindly provide your valuable inputs.

 

[keesio]

Hi everyone,

My wife is an MBA(17 yrs of education) in India and I'm a BSc graduate(15years of education).

She is younger to me and we both belong to same caste/religion.

Can the fact that she is more educated than me, create any doubt in visa officer's mind?

I'm thinking of providing a explanation for the same.

Kindly provide your valuable inputs.

Education gaps can be an issue if it is big differs against (perceived) cultural norms. One example was in the news a few years ago where a Pakistani applicant was denied because the woman being sponsored from Pakistan had more eduction than her Canadian husband sponsor (who is also of Pakistani decent)
http://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2013/04/29/marriage_fraud_canadian_immigration_officials_tread_thin_line.html

But that gap was quite large as the husband only finished high school vs a university degree for the wife. Since both you and your wife have a University degree, it is likely a non-issue even if she has a post-grad degree. Also the couple in the article had various other issues that factored in so it is unlikely that just the education gap was the sole problem.

 

[jaggy999]

Education gaps can be an issue if it is big differs against (perceived) cultural norms. One example was in the news a few years ago where a Pakistani applicant was denied because the woman being sponsored from Pakistan had more eduction than her Canadian husband sponsor (who is also of Pakistani decent)
http://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2013/04/29/marriage_fraud_canadian_immigration_officials_tread_thin_line.html

But that gap was quite large as the husband only finished high school vs a university degree for the wife. Since both you and your wife have a University degree, it is likely a non-issue even if she has a post-grad degree. Also the couple in the article had various other issues that factored in so it is unlikely that just the education gap was the sole problem.

Thanks for the reply. I asked a few people and they told it won't be a issue. Waiting for a few more inputs

 

[ABCml]

Thanks for the reply. I asked a few people and they told it won't be a issue. Waiting for a few more inputs

I can't imagine it being an issue.. my wife's education is greater than mine - similar to your differences. It didn't come up in her interview.., but that was Beijing - a different cultural set of red flags. Can't imagine that your providing the "explanation" that you mentioned would be bad thing, if it didn't sound too defensive, and thereby drawing some suspicion to the subject...

 

[bigredmoose]

Hi everyone,

My wife is an MBA(17 yrs of education) in India and I'm a BSc graduate(15years of education).

She is younger to me and we both belong to same caste/religion.

Can the fact that she is more educated than me, create any doubt in visa officer's mind?

I'm thinking of providing a explanation for the same.

Kindly provide your valuable inputs.

I wouldn't worry about it. At the end of the day you both have university degrees. The fact that one is a master's and the other a bachelor's doesn't seem very relevant.

 

[keesio]

I wouldn't worry about it. At the end of the day you both have university degrees. The fact that one is a master's and the other a bachelor's doesn't seem very relevant.

Yes, agreed. High school and University is one thing. But once both have at least post secondary degrees (University or greater), it is not much of an issue.

 

[bigredmoose]

Yes, agreed. High school and University is one thing. But once both have at least post secondary degrees (University or greater), it is not much of an issue.

Meh - even high school and university isn't that odd, in my opinion. I can't imagine any kind of education gap being a big red flag, but if there are other negative indicators then it would likely add to it.

 

[keesio]

Meh - even high school and university isn't that odd, in my opinion. I can't imagine any kind of education gap being a big red flag, but if there are other negative indicators then it would likely add to it.

Again, cultural considerations come into play here. I was born and grew up in the US but it was still a big deal with my parents (and the ethnic Korean community they were part of) that I, being the guy, have at least as much education as my wife or have a really good job (ideally both). It used to be that the guy also had to be older but it is not as big a deal anymore as long as the age gap is like a year or two at most where the wife is older.

 

[canadianwoman]

CIC cares more if it is an arranged marriage. In which case, if the Canadian spouse has considerably less education than the Indian spouse, they will want to know why the parents agreed to such a match. I would think that if this is the only difference, they would not mention it, since you both have university degrees. If there were other red flags, such as the wife being considerably older, the two being of different castes, different religions, etc., then they might include the educational difference as well.

 

[jaggy999]

Thank for all the replies ....I won't be adding any explanation on this one.