Sponsor/Permanent Resident Application for Wife - Question

[ryf88]

Hello,

I am currently in the process of sponsoring my wife, and I have already been approved to sponsor her. When we applied for the sponsorship/permanent resident on November 14th 2013, it was considered out land however as of December 20th 2013 she has been here in Canada on a Temporary Resident Visa.

My question is, does anyone know whether I need to submit a new application for inland or should I notify the immigration office currently working on her file and notify them that she is here. My fear is that they will request an interview at the immigration office in Jordan, and she would need to travel to Jordan for this.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Rob_TO]

Hello,

I am currently in the process of sponsoring my wife, and I have already been approved to sponsor her. When we applied for the sponsorship/permanent resident on November 14th 2013, it was considered out land however as of December 20th 2013 she has been here in Canada on a Temporary Resident Visa.

My question is, does anyone know whether I need to submit a new application for inland or should I notify the immigration office currently working on her file and notify them that she is here. My fear is that they will request an interview at the immigration office in Jordan, and she would need to travel to Jordan for this.

If you stick with the outland app, then any potential interview would be held in Jordan. There is no way to change this. Also with an outland app, after her TRV expires if she is unable to extend or get some other status (like study permit) it she will need to return back to home country anyways.

If you cancelled the outland app and applied inland instead, then you would be starting from scratch and have to submit a completely new inland application. In this case, she would have implied status and would have to remain in Canada during the entire inland processing time, not being able to leave for any reason. Current time are 11 months stage 1 (when she could get open work permit) and 8 months stage 2 so 19 months total.

 

[canadianwoman]

Even though she is now in Canada, she can continue with her outland application. I would not cancel it - just continue with it and see how it goes.