Good morning all,
I am sponsoring my common-law husband and he is an outland applicant (we both are living in Los Angeles right now). While our application hasn't even been received yet, I'm already trying to work out the logistics of how we effect our move if and when we're approved (of course, I'm also already anticipating it being returned to us as I used abbreviations in the addresses on the application form and just found out we're not to do that - ugh).
As mentioned, we currently live in Los Angeles right now. We want to move to the Vancouver area. Once the COPR is received, we want to fly up to Vancouver to secure a housing rental, however, we won't be bringing our stuff with us on this trip. Our idea was to secure the rental, then fly home, pack up the items we know we'll need for that rental, then drive those back up. There could be a couple of weeks time between flying in and the driving up.
My question is, how should we do this, logistically? Should we fly up and then he just enter as a visitor for the first trip when we're finding a rental, and then enter using his COPR when we drive in with our belongings? Or should he enter with his COPR when we fly in? I'm concerned if we do the latter that he won't be able to enter Canada when we drive up as he will not yet be in receipt of his PR card (I'm hearing it takes upwards of 6 months to receive it) and if we applied for a PRTD in the meantime, that could take a few months to process also (and we likely will only need a few weeks at most).
Has anyone been in a similar situation and how did you make your move?
Thank you!
I am sponsoring my common-law husband and he is an outland applicant (we both are living in Los Angeles right now). While our application hasn't even been received yet, I'm already trying to work out the logistics of how we effect our move if and when we're approved (of course, I'm also already anticipating it being returned to us as I used abbreviations in the addresses on the application form and just found out we're not to do that - ugh).
As mentioned, we currently live in Los Angeles right now. We want to move to the Vancouver area. Once the COPR is received, we want to fly up to Vancouver to secure a housing rental, however, we won't be bringing our stuff with us on this trip. Our idea was to secure the rental, then fly home, pack up the items we know we'll need for that rental, then drive those back up. There could be a couple of weeks time between flying in and the driving up.
My question is, how should we do this, logistically? Should we fly up and then he just enter as a visitor for the first trip when we're finding a rental, and then enter using his COPR when we drive in with our belongings? Or should he enter with his COPR when we fly in? I'm concerned if we do the latter that he won't be able to enter Canada when we drive up as he will not yet be in receipt of his PR card (I'm hearing it takes upwards of 6 months to receive it) and if we applied for a PRTD in the meantime, that could take a few months to process also (and we likely will only need a few weeks at most).
Has anyone been in a similar situation and how did you make your move?
Thank you!