SPOUSAL SPONSORSHIP-

How can I bring my wife/ common law partner to Canada?

According to Immigration Levels Plan 2022-2024, Canada gives high Priority to Spousal Sponsorship. Canada aims to welcome around 80,000 new immigrants through its Spousal, Partner, and Children category per year. Most of these immigrants will arrive as the spouses and partners of Canadians or Permanent Residents.

The processing time for spousal sponsorship applications is one year.

Whether you are a Temporary Resident, Permanent Resident, or a Citizen, we can help you to bring your spouse to Canada.

If you are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, here is an overview on how you can sponsor your spouse, common law partner or conjugal partner for Canadian immigration.

Canada’s spousal sponsorship process explained-

The first stage is to make sure that you and your partner both meet eligibility criteria. You will have to establish that both of you were and are in an ongoing genuine relationship and you are not in a relationship for the convenience of getting Canadian permanent residency.

Canadian Citizen cans sponsor spouse or common law partner even if they are outside Canada. Canadian citizens can apply to sponsor from abroad as long as they demonstrate to IRCC that they will live in Canada once the application is approved. Permanent residents can only sponsor their spouses while staying in Canada, even if their partner is living abroad.

Eligibility criteria for your Canadian partner

Canadian citizens and permanent residents may be eligible to sponsor if they:

• are at least 18 years old;
• are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, or they are an Indigenous person registered under the Canadian Indian Act;
• demonstrate they are not receiving social assistance unless they have a disability; and
• can provide for the financial needs of the sponsored person.
• If married, the marriage should be legal in the country where it occurred as well as in Canada.

Eligibility criteria for you as the person being sponsored

One of these three relationship categories must describe your relationship with your Canadian partner:

• Spouses: You and your Canadian citizen or permanent resident partner were legally married at an in-person ceremony.
• Common-law partners: If you are not legally married to your Canadian partner, you must have been living together for at least 12 consecutive months.
• Conjugal partner: If you are not legally married to your Canadian partner, but have been in a marriage like relationship for at least one year, reside outside of Canada, and are unable to marry them due to circumstances beyond your control , IRCC may consider the relationship as a conjugal partnership. Some of the reasons preventing marriage may include cultural, religious, or legal reasons.

You must be at least 18 years old to be sponsored under any of these categories.

Inadmissibility- You must also pass health, security, and criminality screening to ensure that you are not inadmissible to Canada.

How to apply for spousal sponsorship

Once you establish that you and your partner are eligible for sponsorship, you can then get application package on the government web page. Then you have to pay the necessary fees on IRCC’s website, which include a processing fee, a right of permanent residence fee, and a biometrics fee. You may be exempted from doing biometrics if you have done it in the past 10 year. You have to submit two applications together at the same time: a sponsorship application and a permanent residence application.

Undertaking

Once your application is approved, you and your partner still have to uphold some of the conditions of spousal sponsorship. Your Canadian partner is financially responsible for you for three years. If you ask the government for financial assistance in that time, your partner may be forced to repay the government.

You as the sponsored person may not sponsor another partner for five years after having been sponsored.

Sponsor your spouse for Canadian immigration

Our Immigration consultants (RCIC) are fully licensed and qualified as required by the (ICCRC) which is the primary governing body for the Immigration industry in Canada. Our organization has acquired the knowledge and experience needed to help you successfully conclude your Immigration Case and make it as hassle free as possible.

Please contact us to book your free 15 minutes consultation.

How can I bring my Spouse, Common law partner or dependant children if I am a Temporary Resident in Canada who is studying or working in Canada Temporarily?

Your spouse or common-law partner and dependent children can come with you to Canada or visit you in Canada, if they:

• meet all the requirements for temporary residents to Canada,
• satisfy an immigration officer they will only stay in Canada temporarily,
• can prove they have no criminal record, if necessary, and
• meet all the conditions for getting a temporary resident visa, if they are from a country or territory whose citizens require a visa in order to enter Canada as visitors.

Depending upon the scenario you can apply for open work permit for your spouse. Your dependant children may apply for study permit/ visit visa.

Our Immigration consultants (RCIC) are fully licensed and qualified as required by the (ICCRC) which is the primary governing body for the Immigration industry in Canada. Our organization has acquired the knowledge and experience needed to help you successfully conclude your Immigration Case and make it as hassle free as possible.

               Please call us to book your 15 minutes free consultation.