Hi there,
my husband (Canadian Citizen) and I (German Citizen) are currently living in Germany. He was born and raised in Canada and lived there until just a year ago, before we got married. This summer we want to move to Canada. We're about to send off the family sponsorship application (he is going to sponsor me).
The question is: How long my I stay in Canada (as a visitor) while we're waiting for the application to be processed? (May I visit Canada at all while we're in the process of applying from outland?)
Ideally we were hoping to have been able to sent off the application earlier, so that I would have been able to go to Canada with a permanent residency card right away. We saw that currently it takes CIC more than a year to process an application. So that plan won't work anymore.
The other thought was if it would be better for us if I go to Canada as a visitor in the summer, and we're sending the application off as an inland application instead of sending it now out of Germany? However I wouldn't have any legal status in Canada then, right? Or does "visitor" count as a legal status?
Thank you so much in advance for any help on this topic!
- Soph
my husband (Canadian Citizen) and I (German Citizen) are currently living in Germany. He was born and raised in Canada and lived there until just a year ago, before we got married. This summer we want to move to Canada. We're about to send off the family sponsorship application (he is going to sponsor me).
The question is: How long my I stay in Canada (as a visitor) while we're waiting for the application to be processed? (May I visit Canada at all while we're in the process of applying from outland?)
Ideally we were hoping to have been able to sent off the application earlier, so that I would have been able to go to Canada with a permanent residency card right away. We saw that currently it takes CIC more than a year to process an application. So that plan won't work anymore.
The other thought was if it would be better for us if I go to Canada as a visitor in the summer, and we're sending the application off as an inland application instead of sending it now out of Germany? However I wouldn't have any legal status in Canada then, right? Or does "visitor" count as a legal status?
Thank you so much in advance for any help on this topic!
- Soph