SPOUSE VISA
Spouse Visa offers an opportunity to every citizen or permanent resident to settle along with their family in Abroad. Immigration for the spouse, common-law or conjugal partner of a permanent Canadian resident is permitted through a system of sponsorship. A person with permanent residence or a citizenship can sponsor the applicant for a time period of three to ten years, until the applicant establish in the country.
This program doesn’t have any point system like other immigration programs. This sponsorship takes around 12 months to process the application. The potential sponsor should be able or willing to provide for the financial needs of a spouse or common-law partner.
To sponsor your spouse or common-law partner or conjugal partner, the potential sponsor must sign a legal contract with IRCC. This program is created with the motive to stay with your loved ones in your destined country. Spousal sponsorship allows your common-law partner, spouse, or conjugal partners to become a permanent resident.
Spouse Visa Relationship Characteristics
The following are some basic characteristics required for spousal sponsorship though they are married or unmarried:
- They should have a mutual commitment.
- They should have an intimate relationship so; there is sexual exclusivity.
- There should be interdependency over them in physical, emotional, financial and social issues.
- They should have a permanent and long-term, genuine and continuing relationship.
- Both should care for their children together.
Spouse Visa Requirements
Below listed are the few eligibility criteria that should be for spousal sponsorship :
- The potential sponsor should be 18 years of age.
- Should live in Abroad or should be planning to return to Abroad; once their spouse or common-law partner becomes a permanent resident .
- Must not be committed of any violence or sexual offence.
- They should not be imprisoned.
Submission of the application
- If you have submitted your application, the sponsorship permanent residence and open work permit applications can be submitted together in the Case processing centre in Mississauga (CPC-M).
- If the permanent resident application submitted yet did not receive approval: the application for Open Work permit can be submitted in hard copy to the Case Processing Centre in Vegreville (CPC-V) in Alberta.
- If the permanent residence application has been approved the open work permit application can be submitted online or on a hard copy to the Case Processing Centre in Vegreville (CPC- V) in Alberta.