International Marriage and Spousal Sponsorship

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Marrying someone overseas? Here you can find out everything you need to know about marrying your fiancee overseas and sponsoring them to immigrate to Canada. Just click on the button above to select your spouse's nationality and you will find complete information on the process: everything from what documents you need to get before you travel abroad, to marrying in your spouse's country, to sponsoring your spouse to become a permanent resident and Canadian citizen. If you are having trouble finding the information you need, you can always contact us for a consultation, or submit an email inquiry in the box below.

About Spousal Sponsorship

Citizenship and Immigration Canada classifies a spouse as a marriage partner aged at least 16 years who has legally married a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. The international marriage has to be legally accepted by the civil powers in the country where the marriage took place. Note that a foreign wedding ceremony does not signify an officially authorized marriage if it has not been registered correctly with the civil authorities in the country where the marriage took place. Under Canadian law, only a valid Marriage Certificate can confirm that your international marriage is legal in Canada. Under the spousal sponsorship initiative, Canadian citizens and permanent residents can also bring over their common-law partner, same sex partner, conjugal partner and their foreign spouse’s dependent children.

This process is complicated and we are here to help. If you cannot find all the information you need on these pages you can contact us for a consultation to see what we can do for you. To date, Immigroup Inc has not faced one application refusal in 8 years of doing spousal sponsorship.

Immigroup is a private company. We are not the government. All application forms can be found for free on the relevant government websites. Applying with a private company such as Immigroup entails service fees in addition to the fees charged by the relevant government agency. Experts will review, finalize, and submit all applications.

• Marriage certificate from the civil authority of the country where the marriage took or will take place.
• Proof of a genuine relationship both ways. This includes letters, postmarked envelopes, copies of emails and of records of online conversations, greeting cards, phone bills (not pre-paid cards), photos, copy of plane tickets and boarding passes, passports with entry and exit stamps from the country where your foreign spouse resides, money transfers.

Please note that what you need to legally marry in a given country depends upon that country's laws. You should check our country specific pages [link to button above or list below].

Process

The process of spousal sponsorship for permanent residence in Canada has two different aspects:

1. The spousal sponsor submits a sponsorship to Citizenship & Immigration Canada on behalf of his or her foreign spouse who lives abroad for residing in Canada.
2. The foreign spouse residing abroad completes an application for permanent residence in Canada.

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