PPR & Request for Evidence of Sponsor's Residence in Canada

[KirstenJW83]

So I got the email today requesting my husband's passport copy, which makes me SOOOO HAPPY!

However, the email also asks for the following:

"SPR's residency: Evidence that your sponsor resides now in Canada. This includes but is not limited to: pay stubs, utility bills and banking history of the last month. May you please also inform us whether your house in the USA has been sold and if so, please provide proof of the sale. Drivers licences, Property tax assessments, Social Insurance or Health Insurance cards are not sufficient This must be received at this office by: 01/03/2014"

This is confusing because I currently live in the U.S. and am waiting here with my husband until his PR is approved.... we said in our application that this may be the case, and provided evidence of our PLANS to relocate... So.... ideas what I need to submit????? I could send in responses to job applications I've submitted, but that doesn't prove I am CURRENTLY in Canada...??? Also, we are going to live with my parents (which we also said in the application), so even when I am living there, we won't have utility bills in our name... and I don't plan on working in Canada until January, due to taxation complexities (I'm a dual citizen)... I do have a joint bank account in Canada with my mom, but obviously I don't use it much from here.

This is what I've come up with for additional evidence of intent to move:
- Boarding Agreement for my horses, which I have already moved to Saskatchewan
- Letter stating that I have applied and met requirements for teaching cert in Saskatchewan
- Job app. responses from Canadian businesses
- Applications for substitute teaching here (to provide evidence that I quit my full-time job and am subbing until we move, as I said I would in our application)
Should I just send these, along with a note that I decided to stay in the US until my hubby's app is approved? Or will they deny us because I'm not *currently* in Canada..???

Also, our house is under contract, set to close in December. Should I provide the current sales contract for that portion, or just say it has not sold as of now??

Thanks!!

 

[wowsers]

These confusing requests seem suddenly to have become quite common, possibly because CIC are attempting to catch up after the strike and under pressure paying insufficient attention to their papers. Previous posts on this forum attribute it to someone at CIC filling up a wrong form, one intended for use when the sponsor is a PR (in which case the sponsor must be resident in Canada to apply as a sponsor.) Since you have dual citizenship (presumably US and Canada) you are a Canadian citizen and entitled to apply for sponsorship even if you currently live (as you do) outside Canada. I would write back reminding CIC that you are a Canadian citizen and entitled to apply even though residing in the USA. In case what concerns CIC is evidence of your intention as sponsor to return to reside in Canada when permanent residency is granted, spell it out for them (your plans, job qualifications and applications, horses etc). The additional evidence you mention seems very useful.

 

[KirstenJW83]

Thanks so much! I have spent the morning amassing a mountain of additional evidence of our intent to relocate... so hopefully that satisfies them if that's their concern! We also do have the sales contract for our house, which I assume should demonstrate that we're serious about the move! I will attach that, as well, even though we won't close until December.

Thanks again!