March 2026 - Outland Spousal Sponsorship

[Mrayti]

Hi all, I just submitted mine and my husband's application. Now, I suppose we wait... I don't know the next steps yet. I guess we wait for AOR, but is there a website we need to register to track the process or does that come with AOR?

Submitted: March 23, 2026
Sponsor: Canadian Dual Citizen
Principal Applicant: Tunisia
Application Type: Outland
AOR: Awaiting

 

[jacob1234]

Hi all, I just submitted mine and my husband's application. Now, I suppose we wait... I don't know the next steps yet. I guess we wait for AOR, but is there a website we need to register to track the process or does that come with AOR?

Submitted: March 23, 2026
Sponsor: Canadian Dual Citizen
Principal Applicant: Tunisia
Application Type: Outland
AOR: Awaiting

Firstly, wait for the AOR.
Once you receive the AOR sometime in the beginning of May. You can link your application and start tracking changes/updates from there. Right now, for outland applicants, it is usually around 40-50 days to receive the AOR from the date of submission.

 

[Mrayti]

Firstly, wait for the AOR.
Once you receive the AOR sometime in the beginning of May. You can link your application and start tracking changes/updates from there. Right now, for outland applicants, it is usually around 40-50 days to receive the AOR from the date of submission.

Thank you for the info. It seems the timeline is currently around 15 months, so we can just be patient. I see a last year they seemed to move pretty quickly, wish I applied then! lol

 

[canuck78]

Thank you for the info. It seems the timeline is currently around 15 months, so we can just be patient. I see a last year they seemed to move pretty quickly, wish I applied then! lol

It was always incredibly dependent on the application and there hasn’t been huge processing time changes in reality. There were likely some things skewing the data. Whether your spouse needs further medical testing (additional TB testing fairly unusual in Tunisia) and whether an interview is needed will have a big impact on processing time.

 

[Mrayti]

It was always incredibly dependent on the application and there hasn’t been huge processing time changes in reality. There were likely some things skewing the data. Whether your spouse needs further medical testing (additional TB testing fairly unusual in Tunisia) and whether an interview is needed will have a big impact on processing time.

Thanks for the further info @canuck78 . I read another post that says they are more liberal with their TRV's for spouses these days... wonder what that looks like for Tunisian nationals... I'm going to dig around and see if it's worth applying for him to visit for a couple months after AOR.