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Jul 18, 2016
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Toronto Ontario
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Visa Office......
NDVO
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
18-04-2016
Doc's Request.
N/A
AOR Received.
05-26-2016 from NDVO
Med's Request
completed up front in March 2016
Interview........
Dec 14, 2016
Passport Req..
Jan 16, 2017
VISA ISSUED...
Jan 18, 2017
LANDED..........
Landed Jan 2017
hi,

I have a unique question that someone asked me and I don't know the answer. hoping someone here can help me.

one of my friends's relative in india is widow with a son. her Husband was Canadian PR and died before he could sponsor the wife. I dont have much of the details. but is there any chance of the widow wife to get Canadian PR?
 
AFAIK, I don't think so if the process was never started. There's no widow category like the US has. H&C wouldn't work either since the person needs to be in Canada.
 
Aquakitty said:
AFAIK, I don't think so if the process was never started. There's no widow category like the US has. H&C wouldn't work either since the person needs to be in Canada.

that's what I thought as well. now I am going to find out if the husband was Canadian Citizen or PR status.

thanks
 
I think the widow's only option is to apply for PR through an economic stream like Express Entry or a Provincial Nomination stream.

Whether the husband was a Canadian citizen or PR will make no difference for her immigration process. However if the husband was a citizen and the child was born after he became a citizen, that would make the child a Canadian citizen by default. If the child is a Canadian citizen, that unfortunately won't be of any help to the mother until the child is an adult and working in Canada.
 
scylla said:
I think the widow's only option is to apply for PR through an economic stream like Express Entry or a Provincial Nomination stream.

Whether the husband was a Canadian citizen or PR will make no difference for her immigration process. However if the husband was a citizen and the child was born after he became a citizen, that would make the child a Canadian citizen by default. If the child is a Canadian citizen, that unfortunately won't be of any help to the mother until the child is an adult and working in Canada.

Yes, I thought of the second option where the child was born after the father became the citizen, but I dont know yet if the father was citizen or not.

Thank you for your suggestion.