Canadian Returning Home with Chinese Wife and Daughter

[gillespiedc]

Thanks in advance for any help we can get. I am 100% born, raised, and lived in Canada for all but the past 4 1/2 years. I got married here in China just over 2 years ago, and my wife and step-daughter actually accompanied me for a holiday to Canada for a month last year. There was quite a bit of paperwork, but the process went very well and they got a 6 month visitor visa very quickly.

Now I wish to return home permanently and want my wife and daughter to accompany me as I resume my career and life in Canada. Is it OK for them to be with me on a visitor visa as we apply for residence from within Canada?

As we apply for the visitor visa, do we need to disclose our intent to apply for permanent residence for them?

 

[Leon]

As a Canadian citizen, you could actually start your sponsorship application while you are still in China which means you move after they already get their PR visa. There are definite benefits coming over as a PR already. They would get health care coverage and your wife would be able to get a job or go to university if she wants to.

 

[gillespiedc]

I have read in other threads here that the outlander pr process can be done while they are in Canada on a visitor visa. Is this true? Does it complicate things? At this point it is becoming important that I return and get on with career as things for me here (work-wise) are limited. But I don't want to leave them behind if it is at all possible.

My wife does not have to work, I can secure employment that will cover our living. And as for school, we can do home schooling with Chinese curriculum until such a time that our daughter is eligible for the public school system in Canada.

Another rsponder provided a toll number for CIC in Canada which I will call next week and seek advise directly. We will also call the visa office here in China and chat with them. If anyone has further advise prior to us calling we hope to hear from you soon. If possible we would like to come to Canada in July (2010).

Cheers!

 

[chelley]

yes, you can apply outland while in the Canada... they need to enter the country legally as visitors (which means they will need to demonstrate they will return, and have, among other things, a return ticket, this could be a sticky point if it becomes evident that they have no plans of returning...)... they should maintain legal status if possible when inside the country (extending visas as necessary during the application process)

if during the process CIC determines that an interview is required they (she) will need to return to china as per the scheduled interview date...

hope that helps some

 

[iarblue]

Your outland app through china should go pretty quickly too.I think leon is totally correct get her PR before she comes.See if you can stick it out in China for 6 more months,but im sure you will have to prove your intent to re establish into Canada if her PR is approved.
So that would be your best route.But a two way ticket is most times cheaper than a single route so if her visitors visa is still good then its totally up to you she can come as a visitor apply outland but could be required for an interview back home.Or apply inland where her interview will be here but inland is a bit longer than outland.
So again the best route would be outland from China.