Immigrating with a spouse. Can I land alone first and what are the rules?

[Armenak]

Hi.
I am the main applicant and my points are gained without taking into account my spouse.
I plan to land alone first and then bring my wife when I will get on my feet. In fact I also consider getting a Canadian MA degree before bringing her. So I plan that a period of 1-2 years might pass till she will come.
So I want to find out what are the rules for this case. How much time will she have to come legally within the same application after my landing?
Will be grateful for an advice or for sharing your personal experience.

 

[seema.vashista]

Hi, as u r tHe main applicant, you can land here before u r spouse. But for her, she has the year time from her medical to land here, if she fails to do that her visa expires

 

[Armenak]

Thanx for the respond . Do you know if this statement is mentioned anywhere in the official data? Just want to read the source.

 

[sharedknowledge]

Hi.
I am the main applicant and my points are gained without taking into account my spouse.
I plan to land alone first and then bring my wife when I will get on my feet. In fact I also consider getting a Canadian MA degree before bringing her. So I plan that a period of 1-2 years might pass till she will come.
So I want to find out what are the rules for this case. How much time will she have to come legally within the same application after my landing?
Will be grateful for an advice or for sharing your personal experience.

If your wife was already mentioned on the immigration application, then as mentioned above, she must land before expiry of her medicals. Then, she can go back and come within 3 years time.

However, if she was not on your application, then you will have to initiate a sponsorship application in order that she can join you.

 

[auto_art]

dear all

i included my spouse in my app, but since she was not haivng passport at that time so i ticked that i will travel alone, but i submitted all of her forms with the application. but now she got her passport though i am yet to get medical what should i do so that i could make her travel with me.

 

[namaste]

dear all

i included my spouse in my app, but since she was not haivng passport at that time so i ticked that i will travel alone, but i submitted all of her forms with the application. but now she got her passport though i am yet to get medical what should i do so that i could make her travel with me.

So you listed your spouse as "non accompanying," which means she CAN NOT travel with you to Canada since she will not get a visa. If you want to change the spouse to "accompanying" before your application processing is over, then you should add her as "accompanying" by contacting your VO, supplying updated application forms, and paying the application fees for her. If you go through this route, your spouse will get PR visa the same time as you and both must land in Canada within 1 year. But once landed, you (or spouse) can return home. You only need to live in Canada for 2 years out of 5 to maintain PR.

If you don't do this, then you will need to sponsor your spouse through family class after you are landed in Canada and it can take years for the process to be over.