Dual citizen (US/CA) sponsoring wife/daughter - Plan A/Plan B

[NJB2021]

Hello! I'm a dual citizen (US/Canadian) who's preparing to sponsor my wife and daughter. Our US passports were expired so we have applied for renewed ones plus one for my daughter. In the meantime, we're preparing everything for the sponsorship application so when the passports arrive we'll be ready to submit.

Our Plan A is apply outland and get PR before moving to Canada. However, with the volatile situation here in the US, I'm also want to have a Plan B ready in case we need to leave sooner than later. We're working with an immigration lawyer who has said we could apply outland, then potentially come to Canada prior to the PR being complete. The only thing would be that my wife wouldn't be able to work until PR went through. My questions are:

1) Does that sound correct?
2) If so, would my wife and daughter be in the country on temporary visas and therefore still need to leave every 6 months until the PR went through?
3) If that's the case, would there be any advantage to applying Inland instead?
4) Also, I have a Canadian citizenship certificate but not a Canadian passport. Would a certificate and a US passport be sufficient?

For Plan B, I'm basically looking for what the most likely situation would be to successfully get us over the border, where we could then have the time/breathing room to complete the process.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

 

[scylla]

Hello! I'm a dual citizen (US/Canadian) who's preparing to sponsor my wife and daughter. Our US passports were expired so we have applied for renewed ones plus one for my daughter. In the meantime, we're preparing everything for the sponsorship application so when the passports arrive we'll be ready to submit.

Our Plan A is apply outland and get PR before moving to Canada. However, with the volatile situation here in the US, I'm also want to have a Plan B ready in case we need to leave sooner than later. We're working with an immigration lawyer who has said we could apply outland, then potentially come to Canada prior to the PR being complete. The only thing would be that my wife wouldn't be able to work until PR went through. My questions are:

1) Does that sound correct?
2) If so, would my wife and daughter be in the country on temporary visas and therefore still need to leave every 6 months until the PR went through?
3) If that's the case, would there be any advantage to applying Inland instead?
4) Also, I have a Canadian citizenship certificate but not a Canadian passport. Would a certificate and a US passport be sufficient?

For Plan B, I'm basically looking for what the most likely situation would be to successfully get us over the border, where we could then have the time/breathing room to complete the process.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

1) Yes.
2) You would need to apply to extend their status from within Canada. No need them to leave the country.
3) Your wife would qualify for an open work permit about half way through the process. Note that you would have to move to Canada first before submitting the inland application.
4) Yes

 

[NJB2021]

1) Yes.
2) You would need to apply to extend their status from within Canada. No need them to leave the country.
3) Your wife would qualify for an open work permit about half way through the process. Note that you would have to move to Canada first before submitting the inland application.
4) Yes

Thank you for this response. This is helpful!

 

[canuck78]

Thank you for this response. This is helpful!

Your child should have Canadian citizenship through you and doesn’t need to be sponsored.