why US/CA applicants have relatively easy application?

[CA17CA]

I was always wondering why American/Canadian couples mostly have quick and easy family sponsorship application. As I see here in the forum it usually takes 3-4 month for processing while other applications from elsewhere might take a year or even more.
I feel this is not fair because American/Canadian can easily stay together on visa-free visits while others might be forced to be separated for a year or more just waiting for the decision. At the same time, it is very difficult for the sponsored applicant (if not a US citizen) to be granted a visitor visa to visit the sponsor in Canada.

Another example that drives me crazy is the case if you are NOT a PR or citizen (on study or work permit for example). If you have this case you can bring your wife in few days on visiting visas (I know many cases). While PR applicants cannot do the same just because they are PR.

Why don't all applicants easily bring there wives on visiting visa or something else (not a PR) and then apply from in-land. I know there will be back holes if this happens, but also there should be a different system than existing one. For me, the most important thing is to be together with my spouse, not to grant her a PR status (at least for now).

Just wanted to share my thoughts. Wish you all to be united with your spouse, and congrats to all who got approval recently.

 

[Miraclejj]

I was always wondering why American/Canadian couples mostly have quick and easy family sponsorship application. As I see here in the forum it usually takes 3-4 month for processing while other applications from elsewhere might take a year or even more.
I feel this is not fair because American/Canadian can easily stay together on visa-free visits while others might be forced to be separated for a year or more just waiting for the decision. At the same time, it is very difficult for the sponsored applicant (if not a US citizen) to be granted a visitor visa to visit the sponsor in Canada.

Another example that drives me crazy is the case if you are NOT a PR or citizen (on study or work permit for example). If you have this case you can bring your wife in few days on visiting visas (I know many cases). While PR applicants cannot do the same just because they are PR.

Why don't all applicants easily bring there wives on visiting visa or something else (not a PR) and then apply from in-land. I know there will be back holes if this happens, but also there should be a different system than existing one. For me, the most important thing is to be together with my spouse, not to grant her a PR status (at least for now).


Just wanted to share my thoughts. Wish you all to be united with your spouse, and congrats to all who got approval recently.

All because that we are cousins. Or it is because the Canadian government felt guilty about the Canadian burned down the white house two hundred and three years ago, so the special treaty is the special compensation for that.

 

[scylla]

I was always wondering why American/Canadian couples mostly have quick and easy family sponsorship application. As I see here in the forum it usually takes 3-4 month for processing while other applications from elsewhere might take a year or even more.
I feel this is not fair because American/Canadian can easily stay together on visa-free visits while others might be forced to be separated for a year or more just waiting for the decision. At the same time, it is very difficult for the sponsored applicant (if not a US citizen) to be granted a visitor visa to visit the sponsor in Canada.

Another example that drives me crazy is the case if you are NOT a PR or citizen (on study or work permit for example). If you have this case you can bring your wife in few days on visiting visas (I know many cases). While PR applicants cannot do the same just because they are PR.

Why don't all applicants easily bring there wives on visiting visa or something else (not a PR) and then apply from in-land. I know there will be back holes if this happens, but also there should be a different system than existing one. For me, the most important thing is to be together with my spouse, not to grant her a PR status (at least for now).

Just wanted to share my thoughts. Wish you all to be united with your spouse, and congrats to all who got approval recently.

It's not just the US - it's also countries like the UK, parts of Europe and Australia/NZ. Processing times for spousal sponsorships are typically faster for these countries since historically there's been less abuse of the spousal sponsorship program (i.e. less fraud, non-genuine relationships). Countries with higher rates of application fraud require more scrutiny and therefore typically take longer. Another factor is how difficult it is to run a background/security check in a country. This is very easy and fast for Canada to do in the US since these countries share many of the records. Much more difficult for Canada to do this in other countries (specifically in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia) - which extends overall processing times.

Yes - those on study permits and some on work permits are allowed to apply to bring their spouses to Canada (either through a visitor visa or work permit). However many are refused. So this is by no means a slam dunk and many of them are in fact separated for many years. Some classes of work permit also don't qualify for this benefit at all.

 

[Sneakydriver]

USA and Canada are pretty much the same country that's why haha. Seen Americans getting getting PR in less than 90 days! I feel it's unfair as well, but that's the way it is...

 

[Bcboundboy]

Because they have relatively little to gain by defrauding the system.

Incomes, job opportunities, political/civil rights, and standards of living are broadly comparable in Canada and the US (and western Europe). A person is very unlikely to fake a relationship in order to gain those things they already have. This makes processing easier in two ways: (1) There's less fraud that takes place (2) There's less reason to look for fraud in any given application.

People living in dictatorships, or flawed democracies, or countries with widespread poverty, have a great deal to gain by faking a relationship. So every single relationship automatically needs to be tested harder, and there is a higher incidence of fraud from those countries leading to more widespread suspicion.