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Hi
1. Did she "land" prior to getting married? If so, then when she returns to Canada she sponsors her spouse: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/spouse-apply-how.asp
2. If she "landed" after she got married, then she can never sponsor her spouse.
arianne02 said:Hello! I just wanna ask what to do. My friend is a live-in caregiver. She went back to Philippines to get married. One month before her marriage, she received her pr. She doesn't know now what to get her husband.
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1. Did she "land" prior to getting married? If so, then when she returns to Canada she sponsors her spouse: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/spouse-apply-how.asp
2. If she "landed" after she got married, then she can never sponsor her spouse.
The key question is when did she land as a PR?
This is not asking when did she get her PR card in the mail but when she did the PR paperwork with CIC.
As she is a live in caregiver, she may have landed at a CIC office without going to the border or re-entering Canada.
If she did this before she got married, she can sponsor her husband as long as they were not common law (living together for 12 months) immediately before she went to Canada because in that case, she would have been obligated to include him on her application.
If she landed after getting married and did not make this known to immigration and add him to her application before landing, she would not be able to sponsor him.
This is not asking when did she get her PR card in the mail but when she did the PR paperwork with CIC.
As she is a live in caregiver, she may have landed at a CIC office without going to the border or re-entering Canada.
If she did this before she got married, she can sponsor her husband as long as they were not common law (living together for 12 months) immediately before she went to Canada because in that case, she would have been obligated to include him on her application.
If she landed after getting married and did not make this known to immigration and add him to her application before landing, she would not be able to sponsor him.
arianne02 said:
If you mean she 'landed' one month AFTER she got married, then she has effectively lost any and all chances to sponsor her husband to come and live with her in Canada. If she were married before she landed, then it was her duty to report to CIC that she was married and to let them add her new spouse to her application and wait until that was completed. By not doing this, her husband will now have to find another way on his own to immigrate to Canada.
Leon on the money with this - where was landing decides the spouse's fate...most LCP PRs nowadays land in-country at the Local CIC office in which case the husband is safe. If she landed on her return from marriage and never told immigration at the POE then the spouse is not a member of the family class and even worse there is scope for misrepresentation = inadmissibility = removal order!