Leaving Canada and Returning on another tourist visa

[CanaSask]

Hello,

I am Canadian and my wife is South Korean. We applied for permanent residency in April 2014 outland through Manilla and my wife arrived in July. Her tourist visa is expiring and instead of extending it, she decided to take a short vacation back to Korea to see friends and family for about a month. She leaves this Saturday. She will come back to Canada on another tourist visa. I was told by a friend to apply for a visa extension before leaving since there is a chance she will be refused entry coming in on another tourist visa. Is this possible? I would expect this to be extremely rare. We have been married for 2 years and are waiting on our permanent residency application.

 

[brucem]

Hello,

I am Canadian and my wife is South Korean. We applied for permanent residency in April 2014 outland through Manilla and my wife arrived in July. Her tourist visa is expiring and instead of extending it, she decided to take a short vacation back to Korea to see friends and family for about a month. She leaves this Saturday. She will come back to Canada on another tourist visa. I was told by a friend to apply for a visa extension before leaving since there is a chance she will be refused entry coming in on another tourist visa. Is this possible? I would expect this to be extremely rare. We have been married for 2 years and are waiting on our permanent residency application.

Nobody can give you a definite answer as its dependent on the CBSA officer she deals with and the answers she provides. The fact you have a PR app in process and she has not overstayed her original visitor visa is good. As long as she understands that she is still a visitor until the PR is approved and avoids bringing lots of baggage that looks like she is moving permanently before her PR is approved will avoid unncessary attention. I doubt she will have any issues though, many people do it.

 

[CanaSask]

Thanks for the reply. Thats basically what I thought as well. Thanks for the reassurance.

 

[Jamesdavid3]

There should be more of a better answer for this. It shouldn't just be up to the CBSA officer but I very much doubt he will say NO if you tell him you already have a application in process.