Spousal sponsorship

[armoured]

We've phoned around to all the translation services out there, and none is willing to have us mail in the physical certified true copy to be translated and stamped. They say to submit a scanned copy online. Whilst we can do this, we are inherently making a non-certified copy by scanning it.

You overthink things too much. Listen to the translators in Canada - they've done this before, you haven't.

The way I'd ask them to do it: scan the certified true copy and have them attach that scan to the electronic version of the translation.

(In general while you're possibly technically right, reality in Canada is a bit more relaxed and the translators can be contacted by authorities [if needed, never happens] to confirm that what they translated was the thing. It's part of their professional thing to potentially have to testify and assume a small amount of liability for the power to certify things. A bit like a notary also has liability.)

 

[Jazzed]

@Jazzed, @armoured, and @Kaibigan, thanks again, folks!

To update regarding the certified true copy issue: We managed to get a certified true copy of my spouse's birth certificate from the Consulate General of Mexico here in Vancouver. All we had to do was make an appointment 3 days ahead and pay $21 in cash for the service. My spouse went and picked it up with no issues.

Additional question:
- Now that we have a certified true copy in Spanish, we need to get it translated to English or French. It's noted that the translator will need to stamp both the translated copy, and a certified copy. We've phoned around to all the translation services out there, and none is willing to have us mail in the physical certified true copy to be translated and stamped. They say to submit a scanned copy online. Whilst we can do this, we are inherently making a non-certified copy by scanning it. Will this copy need to be certified by a notary public again once the translation is done and the scanned copy is stamped by the translator to certify that it matches with our original certified true copy we got from the consulate?

This is such a headache (and I apologise for another dense forest of a paragraph above but I hope it makes sense); we just don't want to risk having the application sent back as incomplete due to some stupid bureaucratic red tapes.

Thank you in advance!

Original post from me below:

Don't take this the wrong way but you are absolutely the best.

My husband is half Russian half German and is a real stickler for all the rules and not to mention if I dare butch any of the two languages in my clumsy attempts to speak them with him.

But I think you have him beat.


To summarize I agree with @armoured you are over thinking

 

[mapple007]

You overthink things too much. Listen to the translators in Canada - they've done this before, you haven't.

The way I'd ask them to do it: scan the certified true copy and have them attach that scan to the electronic version of the translation.

(In general while you're possibly technically right, reality in Canada is a bit more relaxed and the translators can be contacted by authorities [if needed, never happens] to confirm that what they translated was the thing. It's part of their professional thing to potentially have to testify and assume a small amount of liability for the power to certify things. A bit like a notary also has liability.)

Thanks a lot for the reassurance, @armoured !

We tend to overthink things, yeah . I know from experience with my own PR application that they can be quite relaxed when it comes to the minute details. Albeit, they can also be quite inconsistent with that leniency, and we just want to make sure we have all of our bases covered. I think we've gone above and beyond what most people would do with their applications, so we'll try to relax a little with all the technicalities!

 

[armoured]

We tend to overthink things, yeah .

You think you overthink things? I noticed that I wrote "overthink things too much", which is redundant, and I have to restrain myself from going back and editing it.

Oh the hell with it, I'm going to edit it, it'll annoy me for days otherwise.

 

[armoured]

My husband is half Russian half German and is a real stickler for all the rules and not to mention if I dare butch any of the two languages in my clumsy attempts to speak them with him.

This reminds me of those stereotype-jokes, 'heaven is where Italians are the cooks [etc] and hell where the English are the cooks', etc.

Hell is Russian grammar and German precision. Ask your husband if he would ever actually say in real life "пятьюстами рублями" (declension of five hundred rubles). Only true freaks would.

 

[mapple007]

Don't take this the wrong way but you are absolutely the best.

My husband is half Russian half German and is a real stickler for all the rules and not to mention if I dare butch any of the two languages in my clumsy attempts to speak them with him.

But I think you have him beat.


To summarize I agree with @armoured you are over thinking

You think you overthink things? I noticed that I wrote "overthink things too much", which is redundant, and I have to restrain myself from going back and editing it.

Oh the hell with it, I'm going to edit it, it'll annoy me for days otherwise.

My wife just read your responses and she said she'll need your contact information to start a support group/intervention for me, LOL!

 

[mapple007]

You think you overthink things? I noticed that I wrote "overthink things too much", which is redundant, and I have to restrain myself from going back and editing it.

Oh the hell with it, I'm going to edit it, it'll annoy me for days otherwise.

By the way, I think that your original text was also correct if you consider "overthink" as a particular action; in which case, that action can certainly be done to an extent that is too much or too many times!

 

[Jazzed]

This reminds me of those stereotype-jokes, 'heaven is where Italians are the cooks [etc] and hell where the English are the cooks', etc.

Hell is Russian grammar and German precision. Ask your husband if he would ever actually say in real life "пятьюстами рублями" (declension of five hundred rubles). Only true freaks would.

The husband speaking, I'm trying to learn to cut her some slack LOL; noting she doesn't even have a Cyrillic keyboard installed. Proudly announcing no, even I'm not always that insanely precise, I just use пятихатка like any sane person, or Пятьсот рублей and declensions if I'm feeling extra formal talking with бабушка.

 

[Jazzed]

This reminds me of those stereotype-jokes, 'heaven is where Italians are the cooks [etc] and hell where the English are the cooks', etc.

Hell is Russian grammar and German precision. Ask your husband if he would ever actually say in real life "пятьюстами рублями" (declension of five hundred rubles). Only true freaks would.

@armoured Yes!!! Absolutely Hell.

 

[Hanouni]

Outland applicants who are in Canada when they receive ppr can do the same virtual landing as inland applicants.

If IRCC knows the applicant is in Canada, they should offer this as default.

Are they automatically informed? Or we need to do something to inform them?

 

[YVR123]

Are they automatically informed? Or we need to do something to inform them?

You need to update your address once you (or your spouse) has "moved" to Canada.

Did you submit address update to IRCC? If not, update via webform. (not exaclty sure how it's currently done )

Not sure what "automatically" means. CBSA will not update IRCC records if that's what you mean.

 

[ravnish0302]

Hello everyone! Just wanted to check for the average time it is taking to receive CoPR/PPR post completion of Biometrics and Medical. Also, post these 2 - what are the processing steps. I am sorry in case the the question is redundant, I wasn't able to join any Whatsapp groups since they are all full.

 

[Jazzed]

Hello everyone! Just wanted to check for the average time it is taking to receive CoPR/PPR post completion of Biometrics and Medical. Also, post these 2 - what are the processing steps. I am sorry in case the the question is redundant, I wasn't able to join any Whatsapp groups since they are all full.

The tracking sheet is regularly updated. You can use it to find these answers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...w5DgFKBmIPNYo6TjlVWAk-xxxA/edit#gid=873641429

 

[annasteve]

Hi guys if we applied under common-law and if we moved to a new place, still in the same city/same province, do we only need to update our address or should we raise a web form with attachments proving we are still staying together? Thanks in advance

 

[F.ayub]

Hello friends please any one knows.. how to do electronicaly sign on schedule A and Additional family information form. Please let me know thanks