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Franz - 27 Jun 2006 04:22 GMT

Greetings all, I am totally lost in the process involved in bringing my
American wife to Canada. Could someone give me some idea as to the time
frames involved. While I reside in Quebec at the moment it is our intent
to reside elsewhere. Being as we will not remain in Quebec do we have to
submit to all their extra nonsense??? While all this paperwork is in
flux can my wife remain in Canada? Can she get some temporary work
permit while waiting? Thank ever so much for you assistance :-)

Franz in Montreal

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S P Arif Sahari Wibowo - 27 Jun 2006 20:20 GMT

> Greetings all, I am totally lost in the process involved in
> bringing my American wife to Canada.

Firstly, there are two completely separate procedure to sponsor
a spouse / common-law partner: under Family Class (outside
spousal), which processed in a visa office outside Canada, or
under in-Canada Spousal / Common-law class, which processed in
Canada, and require the PR applicant to be in Canada during the
application process.

Read about Family Class here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/sponsor/out.html

Read about in-Canada Spousal / Common-law class here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/sponsor/in.html

There are also a forum specialized in Canada spousal /
common-law partner immigration. You can take a look:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canadian_immigration/

> Could someone give me some idea as to the time frames
> involved.

Family class can be faster, for USA citizen in USA currently as
short as 4 months if there is no problem whatsoever. in-Canada
spousal is longer, currently at least 8 months. But not sure how
it will work in Quebec, though.

> While I reside in Quebec at the moment it is our intent to
> reside elsewhere. Being as we will not remain in Quebec do we
> have to submit to all their extra nonsense???

AFAIK if your spouse will live in Quebec after become PR or
during the application, even for short time, it will be almost
impossible not go through Quebec immigration.

> While all this paperwork is in flux can my wife remain in
> Canada?

For family class: she may be able to visit, but not live in
Canada. For in-Canada spousal: she have to.

> Can she get some temporary work permit while waiting?

For family class: no. For in-Canada spousal: after the first
stage of approval.

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Immigration Forum / Canada / June 2006

Comming to Canada from USA