Hi. i am engaged from last 2 years and will get marry in December 2016. i am an international student but my fiance has Canadian permanent resident card. how long its gonna take to get PR after marring him. My student visa will get expire in July 2017. somebody told me, he can apply for open work permit after applying for spouse sponsorship. If anyone know about the details, please share with me. Thanks.

The birds do it, the bees do it.....even cuckoos ... Cole Porter.

Just a few basic questions and you don't have to answer them. Do you both have the same address? Do you both have a joint account with a local bank? I can ask more questions and a lot more sensitive ones too, but that is not the criteria. You now know how you both should build the scenery up and DOCUMENT your backgrounds to make your application process a lot simpler and also for a quicker for the granting of the PR and from with in Canada.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/2005/2005-02-18.asp

Who gives a hoot. There is no pangs of separation and you both are under ONE Roof and so enjoy the Bliss. Let it take its own course. I hope you get the drift.

Renew your visa Right on time before its expiry. (No need for a student Visa.) There is a Bridging Visa for that too. You should have your work permit even now, if you have not applied for and got one to work. Just renew it at that time when you are extending your VISA.

If by that time you have all of the process complete with additional information on hand later, please post it here. (No Numbers etc.,) We can tell you what next to do at that time. Everything will fall in its place. In my books you both are well set. Please do not leave Canada till the whole process gets completed and you are a PR., here.

Congratulations to you both.

AND Good Luck and a Happy Married Life.

FH.

{Anyone else is getting engaged? We will have the have the very first couple who will tie their knots here in Canada, if you both show up on Saturday and bring the Rocks with you too.}

Hi. i dint complete my course yet. I get a semester off from college for D-day and we r gonna apply for spouse sponsorship asap. we don't have any joint account or lease signed by both of us because we staying in different province. but we usually fly to see each other, all the phone records, video calling since 3 years shows our genuine relationship. i wanna switch to another course any when i will get PR card. Is it possible that i will get open work permit after marriage until i get PR card?

To get a work permit while you are studying here as a student, you have to provide all of the details and must APPLY for it and obtain it. (There is a small fee)

Since you say that you have a TWO Year Student Visa, your Work Permit should run in tandem for the same duration, which means it also expires when your student visa gets completed.

If you dropped out of the courses for any GENUINE reasons and want to resume back in the same course or change it, then, get an approval from the same institution and submit the same to the CIC (IRCC) and obtain an extension to your Student Visa also. (You have to extend your Visa anyway.) Find out if you can pay the fees at a later date, when you rejoin.

You can wait till you receive your PR and the fees will drop to the normal levels after that. All of this is taking into consideration that you got married and you are applying for the Spousal Sponsorship and get your PR status. Work Permit does not stop, when the Application is in progress.

See if it helps.

FH.

You should keep a running diary from the day you got in as a student with all of the details. Also save all of the expenses, ticket costs, stays together with the location and dates and in detail with pictures if you have them. If you can go as far back as THREE Years, then document them also. These items will help you immensely in your getting the Sponsorship approved as early as possible. fh.

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Originally posted by harsimar

Hi. i dint complete my course yet. I get a semester off from college for D-day and we r gonna apply for spouse sponsorship asap. we don't have any joint account or lease signed by both of us because we staying in different province. but we usually fly to see each other, all the phone records, video calling since 3 years shows our genuine relationship. i wanna switch to another course any when i will get PR card. Is it possible that i will get open work permit after marriage until i get PR card?

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Thanks for your advice. i have more questions as well. e already mentioned in previous queries that i got 2 years study course, if i want to complete only first year of my study then college can give me certificate course of one year. i dont need to continue the second year. by doing one year study i will get work permit of 8 months, in that time my application will be submit for spouse sponsorship. in case, if i wouldn't get approval for PR status, do i have to leave the country or i can stay because my husband is here?

You entered Canada on a Student Visa. (TRV) Your initial stay with that Visa is for TWO Years. You should also get a Work Permit from the first day of arriving here for a period of TWO Years. Do you have it? If not get one. till the visa expires.

You are here and the situation has changed. You are now entering into Marriage to a Canadian PR. The question will be, can he support you or you have sufficient funds to continue here with the funds you have. DO YOU have enough money? Please see the form that you will be filling out for sponsorship.

Since the Educational institution will give you a Certificate, you can use it to obtain employment with it. Can you get one? If not, you have NOT completed the Course and they might not give you one. Check with them. The Visa and the work permit will still be valid for Two years from the date you arrived. But they will not extend the work permit unless you study here and continue with your education and Complete it. Are you willing to re-join the course and complete it? Ifg NOT, then the Student Visa will expire too and the work permit will stop with it.


When do you propose to get married and apply for the sponsorship? If it is within the next thirty days, then, you stand a chance of getting a file number from them, only IF You can prove that you have sufficient funds to support for the next few months.

Living in two different parts of Canada will cost you twice the rent etc., If you both are under ONE Roof, then, you will save enough and the funds that one of you have, might be sufficient to get by for both of you. They might see that in a lighter vein and approve your Sponsorship Application. That is a call that IRCC will be making. Also you will have to go through a health check and so also all of the people they might ask from your side of the family too. (Do not leave anyone out)

THIS Sponsorship is from WITHIN Canada. So, you stay here as long as it takes to see the process through and currently they are very much in favour of it and you have better chances of getting through the process and a lot sooner too. It all depends upon the back log of the process, plus our summer is here and it slows down a little bit too. So, expect it to get completed in the new year, IF you apply within the next 30 days.

These are all ideas and you both have to be the ones to do the required completion and if you both jump into it and get things completed, then, things will move in a different direction for YOU. He is already here and has no problems,

So, you take care,

FH.


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Originally posted by harsimar

Thanks for your advice. i have more questions as well. e already mentioned in previous queries that i got 2 years study course, if i want to complete only first year of my study then college can give me certificate course of one year. i dont need to continue the second year. by doing one year study i will get work permit of 8 months, in that time my application will be submit for spouse sponsorship. in case, if i wouldn't get approval for PR status, do i have to leave the country or i can stay because my husband is here?

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