Adding dependent pre/post landing for PR

[Bob456]

Hi,

Need advice on below. Thanks in advance.

My friend is currently residing outside Canada and having Canada PR landing visa/papers and needs to complete landing by end of Sep 2015. She is unmarried currently.

Can she get married before completing landing and inform CIC and add her husband in PR application?

If she gets married after completing landing, can she apply visa for her husband
and at the same time apply for his PR so that both can stay in Canada during the time her husband's PR application is in process?

I am aware that she can sponsor her husband from Canada, but that will take 8 to 12 months while her husband has to be outside Canada until he gets PR.

 

[Bob456]

Hi,

Can anyone please advice on this question. Thanks

 

[zardoz]

Hi,

Need advice on below. Thanks in advance.

My friend is currently residing outside Canada and having Canada PR landing visa/papers and needs to complete landing by end of Sep 2015. She is unmarried currently.

Can she get married before completing landing and inform CIC and add her husband in PR application?

If she gets married after completing landing, can she apply visa for her husband
and at the same time apply for his PR so that both can stay in Canada during the time her husband's PR application is in process?

I am aware that she can sponsor her husband from Canada, but that will take 8 to 12 months while her husband has to be outside Canada until he gets PR.

If she marries before she lands in Canada, she must immediately inform the visa office that issued her COPR document. They will ask her to return it to them as is would no longer be valid. The new spouse would have to be added to the application and fully processed before they would reissue an updated COPR to her, and optionally to the new spouse.
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should she attempt to complete landing with a COPR declaring her as single if she has married. Google IRPR 117(9)(d). Getting married after landing is OK, as long as they have not already qualified as common-law partners. If they have, the process, as if they were married, would have to be followed.
There is lots of information on here about the pros and cons of various types of sponsorship, so I won't elaborate on this.

 

[Bob456]

Thanks Zardoz.