You will need to declare at landing that your marital status has changed at which point you will need to add your spouse to the application as non-accompanying and she will need to have medicals and background check done. Only way to avoid that is to marry after landing, and if you wish, sponsor her for PR.
You MUST add tour spouse to your application if you get married before landing. It doesn't matter is she isn't coming to Canada with you. If you don't include her, she will be forever excluded from the Family Class, meaning you won't be able to sponsor her. Adding her to the application will add several months of processing time.
Otherwise, you need to wait until after landing to marry.
You MUST add tour spouse to your application if you get married before landing. It doesn't matter is she isn't coming to Canada with you. If you don't include her, she will be forever excluded from the Family Class, meaning you won't be able to sponsor her. Adding her to the application will add several months of processing time.
Otherwise, you need to wait until after landing to marry.
Completely wrong. The spouse would be forever excluded if OP landed without including her.
Also wrong. If he does this, he will be refused landing. OP needs to sort this out BEFORE landing.
You MUST add tour spouse to your application if you get married before landing. It doesn't matter is she isn't coming to Canada with you. If you don't include her, she will be forever excluded from the Family Class, meaning you won't be able to sponsor her. Adding her to the application will add several months of processing time.
Otherwise, you need to wait until after landing to marry.
No, she doesn't have to create an express entry profile, you must inform IRCC of your change in family composition and you'll be required to provide her medicals, PCC, marriage certificate and other forms. Before you ask, yes this is required even if she's non-accompanying.
Informing and having her accompany is better to avoid hassles of family sponsorship. There is no difference in paper work for accompanying or non accompanying for cases like this, I suppose.
If you get married at any point after you submit eAPR, then you need to notify IRCC and amend your application. Your spouse must get background check and medicals regardless whether your spouse is accompanying.
AFAIK, your landing in Canada must be done within 1 year of your medicals, so this is something to consider when gathering the documents to apply with your spouse as this will add more processing time to your application.
May I ask you please, for the medical check, should the spouse go ahead and do upfront check using the main applicant's application number and UCI without waiting for CIC to give the list of documents, or he/she should wait till CIC inform them the things to submit.
I have informed CIC of the change 2 weeks ago, haven't heard from them. I wonder if it is okay if my husband books the upfront medical check right now or will need to wait till CIC replies.
