Spouse sponsership questions?

[cute]

Hi All,
I have couple of questions about spouse sponsorship, please calrify....

I am living and working in Canada ( PR status), I am planning to get married in India and want to sponsor my wife after my wedding.
My Questions:

1. Is it better to launch her sponsorship application at Indian or Canada ? which one is faster?

2 Is it good idea to apply visit visa before wedding , and after wedding launch her application at New Delhi( read outland is faster)?

3. If she applies visit visa before wedding, what are her chances to get it?

4. Incase if she get visit visa( before wedding) , after wedding( while her sponsorship case is underprocessing at New Delhi office) can she visit Canada and stay with me?

Thanks in advance!!!!

 

[CharlieD10]

1. New Delhi's current timeline is 8 months for 80% of cases. An Inland application takes 11 months for stage 1, plus up to 8 months for stage 2.

2. You can apply, the chances of her being denied are fairly high, especially with a Canadian resident fiance.

3. Her chances are 50/50, same as everyone else's from a non-visa-exempt country. Either she gets it, or she doesn't.

4. No. New Delhi requests the passport of applicants as soon as they receive the file, and she cannot send it overseas via courier (it is illegal). She would need to be in India to submit her passport, and remain there to wait for her PR application to be completed and her passport returned to her.

 

[cute]

Thank you Charile,
4. New Delhi requests the passport of applicants as soon as they receive the file
corrct me if i am wrong, PPR is the last step, isn't it? once all the process is done then ND office will ask for the passport right?

so is there any other way ? other than waitng 8 months or so?

 

[CharlieD10]

No, PPR is not the last step for New Delhi and several other Asian offices. They request the passport as part of processing NOT when they are ready to issue the visa. The visa is held from the beginning of processing until the end.

As for other ways, she can try to get a student permit for a Canadian university or a work permit for a Canadian employer if she qualifies for either. If finances are not an issue then you can apply Inland and wait the 20 or so months.

 

[cute]

Thanks again Charlie,
In our case we are not yet even engaged, so can she apply a normal visit visa ( purpose sight seeing or something) wihout mentioning abt me?