Sponsorship Residency Question

[ezedek]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to address the residency question in the sponsorship application. I've been in Asian for 4 years. However, I'm here in a tourist visa capacity. I don't have a home in Canada anymore, but I still have my full furniture in storage. I work online for a Canadian company in which I own stakes. I obviously have family (mother, brothers) in Canada. Do I still qualify as resident of Canada?

If I don't then would flying back there again for couple of weeks and renewing all my expired paperwork before I drop the application qualify?

 

[zardoz]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to address the residency question in the sponsorship application. I've been in Asian for 4 years. However, I'm here in a tourist visa capacity. I don't have a home in Canada anymore, but I still have my full furniture in storage. I work online for a Canadian company in which I own stakes. I obviously have family (mother, brothers) in Canada. Do I still qualify as resident of Canada?

If I don't then would flying back there again for couple of weeks and renewing all my expired paperwork before I drop the application qualify?

No, not if you are attempting to sponsor a member of the Family Class and you are supposed to be resident IN Canada during the whole of the application process. You may be a resident for tax purposes but not for immigration purposes.

 

[Rob_TO]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to address the residency question in the sponsorship application. I've been in Asian for 4 years. However, I'm here in a tourist visa capacity. I don't have a home in Canada anymore, but I still have my full furniture in storage. I work online for a Canadian company in which I own stakes. I obviously have family (mother, brothers) in Canada. Do I still qualify as resident of Canada?

If I don't then would flying back there again for couple of weeks and renewing all my expired paperwork before I drop the application qualify?

Why do you care? If you're a Canadian citizen, you can sponsor your spouse while residing anywhere in the world.

If you are not physically living in Canada during the application process, then you are not residing in Canada. You will need to submit proof you intend to relocate back to Canada after the PR app is completed.

 

[Aquakitty]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to address the residency question in the sponsorship application. I've been in Asian for 4 years. However, I'm here in a tourist visa capacity. I don't have a home in Canada anymore, but I still have my full furniture in storage. I work online for a Canadian company in which I own stakes. I obviously have family (mother, brothers) in Canada. Do I still qualify as resident of Canada?

If I don't then would flying back there again for couple of weeks and renewing all my expired paperwork before I drop the application qualify?

How can you be here on a tourist visa if you are a canadian citizen or permanent resident? Do you mean you are just here visiting like a tourist?

If so, as the others have said, that's ok. You'll have to provide proof that you intend to resettle in Canada when your spouse gets their PR. Your Canadian job does help even though it's remote, and also providing proof of your items in storage in Canada will also help.

 

[Rob_TO]

How can you be here on a tourist visa if you are a canadian citizen or permanent resident? Do you mean you are just here visiting like a tourist?

He's in Asia on a tourist visa.

 

[ezedek]

No, not if you are attempting to sponsor a member of the Family Class and you are supposed to be resident IN Canada during the whole of the application process. You may be a resident for tax purposes but not for immigration purposes.

The WHOLE application process? That can take up to a year. I can't be travelling back and forth during that time? I can't just go back, stay for couple of months, drop the application, then travel back on out?

Having to stay in Canada for an entire year is hardship on my family, because I got three toddlers. Going back, getting things started, dropping the application, then going back and forth is much more doable.

 

[truesmile]

Then don't. Your first post on this forum indicates you are a Canadian Citizen, so you don't have to be in Canada like non-citizen/PR sponsors do. Just show intent to move to Canada upon your wife being granted PR.

 

[zardoz]

The WHOLE application process? That can take up to a year. I can't be travelling back and forth during that time? I can't just go back, stay for couple of months, drop the application, then travel back on out?

Having to stay in Canada for an entire year is hardship on my family, because I got three toddlers. Going back, getting things started, dropping the application, then going back and forth is much more doable.

As I said, IF it is a requirement for the particular sponsorship that you are applying for, that you have to reside in Canada, (example, parent/grandparent or that you are not a citizen), your situation would not meet this requirement. In your case, this is irrelevant.