Spousal sponsorship

[scylla]

Hey what is your thoughts, if you submit application on feb/ march when it will get PPR as per current trend? ( if they are not applied for TRV)

Feb/March 2025

 

[lohit.singh90]

Hi,
Looking for help in applying for a spouse sponsorship application. I am PR in Canada based in Delhi. We got married in 2022 and changed her address to mine in Delhi where I live. After that, I moved to Canada. She got a new job in Bangalore in 2023. I got her PCC done in Delhi and pre-medical in Bangalore. My question is to you Passport address can't be changed unless it's one year of stay at a rented place in Bangalore. What should I write in her Current Address while applying? Delhi address according to Passport or Bangalore address where is she currently staying?

 

[armoured]

Hi,
Looking for help in applying for a spouse sponsorship application. I am PR in Canada based in Delhi. We got married in 2022 and changed her address to mine in Delhi where I live. After that, I moved to Canada. She got a new job in Bangalore in 2023. I got her PCC done in Delhi and pre-medical in Bangalore. My question is to you Passport address can't be changed unless it's one year of stay at a rented place in Bangalore. What should I write in her Current Address while applying? Delhi address according to Passport or Bangalore address where is she currently staying?

actual addresses. IRCC will generally ignore address in passport, because it so rarely means the actual address.

 

[Meloi]

So you are in the situation that you want to sponsor your foreign spouse for permanent residency of Canada and don't know where to start. Here are some tips:

Married, common law or conjugal partners

First you need to pick an application class. There are three of them: married, common-law and conjugal. For all of them, you need to prove the genuineity of your relationship. For common-law, you need to prove that you have lived together for 12 months or longer. For conjugal, you need to prove that you have combined your affairs as much as possible but there are real immigration barriers or other barriers preventing you from living together or getting married. Conjugal is the hardest to prove. For example, if your partner could get a visit visa to come to Canada for 6 months and then apply for an extension to get the full year, even though they will not be allowed to work, that is not considered an immigration barrier. An immigration barrier is if your partner tries to get a visit visa to come to Canada and is repeatedly refused. Some people have had luck with the conjugal class but try to avoid it if possible.

Outland or inland?

Now you need to decide if to apply outland or inland. If your spouse is not in Canada and can not get a visa to go to Canada, you must apply outland. That means that you will send your application to Mississauga and they will approve you as a sponsor. The time that takes is usually 1-2 months to but current processing times can be seen here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/process-in.asp#sponsorship After that, the application is forwarded to your local visa office. If your spouse is residing in a country other than the country of their nationality, you can pick which of the two visa offices you want. Otherwise it will be processed in their country of nationality. You can see the processing times here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/international/05-fc-spouses.asp

If your spouse is staying in Canada as a visitor or on some other visa, you can pick whether you want to apply outland or inland. Outland is generally faster and has appeal rights but a downside to outland is that if an interview is required, your spouse will have to travel to the visa office in the country where it's being processed. Inland has the downside that it's generally not advised that your spouse travels while you are waiting for your processing because it is a requirement of inland that they reside in Canada and if they are denied entry at the border for some reason, your application is gone. If an interview is required for inland, you may also have to wait a long time for it. The inland application would be sent to Vegreville and if all goes well, you would get a first stage approval, usually in 6 to 8 months. The current processing times can be seen here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/canada/process-in.asp#perm_res Then the file is forwarded to your local CIC office where you live and they will contact you for a landing appointment. Getting the PR with inland usually takes 12-18 months. If an interview is required for inland, Vegreville will not give first stage approval but instead will forward the application to the local CIC office without it and you will have to wait for them to have time for your interview. In some cases that can take a year or two. If you do get the first stage approval, your spouse will usually be eligible for health care and an open work permit. It is actually a good idea when applying inland to send an application form for a visit visa extension as well as the open work permit to be given at first stage approval all in one package so it's tied together.

Which method to pick depends on your situation. If your spouses country of nationality has a long processing time or your spouse does not want to have to travel there for a possible interview, then inland is the way to go. For faster processing and freedom of travel during the processing time, outland would be better. You can find the application forms for inland at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/spouse.asp and the application forms for outland at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/fc.asp

Avoiding potential problems with your application

The most common reason for people to be called for an interview is that the visa officer has doubts about the relationship being genuine. It is up to you to send immigration some quality data, emails, chat logs, phone records, photos, letters and other material to prove to them that your relationship is the real thing. Other reasons you might have problems with is eligibility of the sponsor. The sponsor can not be on social assistance, can not be bankrupt and can not have a record of violent crimes or crimes against family members. If that is the case, better talk to a lawyer and get that cleared up before attempting to apply.

Dependent children

If your spouse has dependent children, they must be included in the PR application, even if they are not coming to Canada. They will need to have medicals as well to keep the option open to sponsor them later. The only way that immigration will accept the application without those medicals is if the children are no longer minors and refuse to have it or if the children are in the full custody of their other parent who refuses to make them available for medicals. In that case, your spouse needs to sign a statement stating that they know that they will never be able to sponsor these children to Canada in the future.

Dependent children are classified as single and either under 22 years of age or if they are older, they must have been full time students since before age 22 or dependent on their parent due to a disability or medical problem.

Refusals due to income and medicals

You will be asked to provide information about your income but you will not be denied to sponsor your spouse and dependent children because you do not make enough money. It is possible though that if you make absolutely no money at all that immigration may ask you how you plan to support yourselves.

Spouses and dependent children are also exempt from the clause about excessive demand on health care so you do not have to worry about them being refused for that reason.

Sponsoring your spouse while living in another country

If you are a Canadian citizen, you can sponsor your spouse without being in Canada but you do then have to prove that you are planning on moving to Canada when your spouse gets approved for permanent residency. Such proof can include having arranged jobs, being accepted to college, having arranged housing or letters from friends & relatives stating that they know of your plans and that you can stay with them while you look for housing etc.

If you are a PR, you must reside in Canada in order to sponsor your spouse. You can chance short vacations (remember that a Canadian vacation is generally no longer than 2 weeks) but if immigration finds out that you are not in Canada, you risk getting your application refused.

Hi Leon!
You explained very clear..
How about my friend is a Canadian Citizen not divorced but been separated with ex husband since 2015, she have an affidavit for emotional abuse then the ex already filed a credit splitting for CPP.. Now, my Canadian friend has a common law but became out of status for over staying his visitor visa for almost 3 years is it possible to sponsor him as common law even she's is not divorced and btw they have a child together now.. ???
TIA

 

[armoured]

Hi Leon!
You explained very clear..
How about my friend is a Canadian Citizen not divorced but been separated with ex husband since 2015, she have an affidavit for emotional abuse then the ex already filed a credit splitting for CPP.. Now, my Canadian friend has a common law but became out of status for over staying his visitor visa for almost 3 years is it possible to sponsor him as common law even she's is not divorced and btw they have a child together now.. ???
TIA

Asked and answered elsewhere. Please don't ask the same question all over.

 

[Rohitjaswal23]

Hi guyz i am just new on this website and been using this thread first time (recommended by friend)
I submitted application for sponsorship of my spouse in last week on November. I received pre arrival in first week of march. Could anyone tell me how much time it takes to get passport request and Copr

 

[armoured]

Could anyone tell me how much time it takes to get passport request and Copr

Not really.

 

[sherryl89]

Please help, can someone sponsor a spouse in Canada if you are in school at the moment and receiving loans and bursaries? Your spouse is here in Canada?

 

[Singh24]

Hello, Looking for some help with the application form IMM5532 - Pact C. I have read some forms and haven't been able to conclude on how to tackle this particular question.

Question 4. If you are not living together, have you visited each other during your relationship?

A bit of my background to this. My wife and I were introduced to each other in July as a setup for an arranged marriage and in August we got engaged, and for that, I flew back to India. Few weeks after our engagement, I flew back to Canada and my wife stayed in India. And now earlier this year we got married, for which I spent 2 months in India. How should I handle the above question regarding whether have you visited each other during your relationship? Does it mean after marriage? or from the time I have know her, so I need to include my engagement trip as a visit? If you guys can please help with this, that would be great.
Thanks!

 

[armoured]

Hello, Looking for some help with the application form IMM5532 - Pact C. I have read some forms and haven't been able to conclude on how to tackle this particular question.

Question 4. If you are not living together, have you visited each other during your relationship?

A bit of my background to this. My wife and I were introduced to each other in July as a setup for an arranged marriage and in August we got engaged, and for that, I flew back to India. Few weeks after our engagement, I flew back to Canada and my wife stayed in India. And now earlier this year we got married, for which I spent 2 months in India. How should I handle the above question regarding whether have you visited each other during your relationship? Does it mean after marriage? or from the time I have know her, so I need to include my engagement trip as a visit? If you guys can please help with this, that would be great.
Thanks!

Just write short and factual as you have here. Be up-front that it was an arranged marriage. And yes, include the visit before. But the time spent cohabiting ( I assume) after marriage is of more importance, so details and photos of that should be emphasized.

 

[masa94]

Anyone Cairo visa office applied last year??

 

[Peace2023]

I received GCMS notes and got the secondary review for the Sponsor eligibility. Searched the forum and I'm not happy due to the uncertainty in the timeline now. There is no clarification provided as to why is secondary review required. Anyone in the same boat?

 

[Satishrana.7061.sr]

Hi Fellow Members,

I received a Passport request in Spousal PR, and with that, we need to inform the CPC Mississauga that there is a Change in contact information: mailing address, e-mail address, or telephone number. And this information we need to update on this given link in the document -: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/contacts/web-form.asp. So, can you guys please provide me with how to change the address in the given link I tried going there but I do not see a form to fill out. So, can you guys please guide me on this? Thanks a lot in advance.

 

[Sai08]

Hi,
My PR application under spousal sponsorship (Outland) submitted on Nov 6th. Received AOR on Jan 5th and gave biometrics on Jan 11th. I've received Pre arrival letter on Feb 10th. From then there is no update. Awaiting for passport request. Will it get more delay to get PPR?

 

[Sai08]

Hi guyz i am just new on this website and been using this thread first time (recommended by friend)
I submitted application for sponsorship of my spouse in last week on November. I received pre arrival in first week of march. Could anyone tell me how much time it takes to get passport request and Copr

Hi my application submitted in 1st week of November. I got pre arrival on Feb 10th. I'm also waiting for passport request. Can you please update if you get PPR. Thank you