How soon my spouse will get the Canada PR?

I assume you mean that your spouse will be PR too.

I was married to 2 asian woman before. THe later one is still my wife Here are the 2 imigration storries.

The first one was from China and i lived 2 years with her together in China prior the marriage. After we married , we filed the application. I am PR since over 25 years here in Canada. Her immigration went so smooth. Not even an interview. It took 8 months to complete.

For the second one, which by the way had better credentials than the first one, even had money and several houses in China the story went like this:

We applied and even did the health check prior it was requested to save processing time. One day , about 9 months after we applied we got invited to an interview at the Hon Kong consulate.

We went there, not really knowing what to expect. That officer woman, after seeing that my wife’s English skills are not that great, after about 3 minutes flat out decided that my wife is fake and only married me to gain access to Canada.

I was speechless. Clearly that was a full show stopper. I received a letter with the reasons why they refused her. Stating that no communication between me and her would be possible and therefore she declares the marriage as fake.

I do not have to speak English with my wife because I speak Chinese and she , at that time was about to get the A1 German language certificate. So we usually communicate either in Chinese (i lived 15 years in China and sure picked up some language skills during that time) or if we wanted could also communicate in German and of course in English or a mix of all 3 languages. Until today we always got the point across and we are still married.

What followed was an appeal and 100s of angry letters to the government, immigration and so on. — No USE and a lot of money wasted.

So we took a rest with this. 7 years later we applied again. Forms, sponsorship app and so on. The whole game again and again we were invited to the consulate for an interview. Point for point we took the first refusal letter apart and delivered proof that my wife was not fake. From pictures to letters of friends that stated that our marriage was not fake.

After hour the officer decided that we are not fake and we won.

My lesson learned from that, if they refuse you, dont spend money on lawyers and appeals. No use ! Go gather evidence and apply again. Important is tht you can supply them as many documents in the interview as possible to proof your case.

As to the time line, at the website of immigration Canada you can see an approximate time frame which differs from consulate to consulate. It is just an approximate time line and best guess from them I assume.

Every question they have, every document missing that they have to request from you will so stall your application. Therefore make triple sure that you have everything they request and do not forget to SIGN THE PAPERS !

Simple things like that will add easily 1 or 2 months to the processing time. IN general, immigration applications can at best take 8 months, at worst - well there are people that waiting for over 10 years !!! and the outcome is like playing lottery. AS you see on my case, even that you are married, does not mean that they will let your wife in.

I know one case of a friend where a woman (china) and husband (Canada) applied. During the application process she became pregnant. What a game changer that was. She informed the immigration department from the fact, since of course they would need PR status for the child too after it is born.

She was advised that she should wait until the child is there. So she did and in the interview she was asked to supply DNA test results that the child is from her husband. What an insult that was. She was married for several years and both wanted a child. Since reliable DNA tests can be only done after the child reaches an age of 3 years, their immigration application came to a delay until she could supply that requested test results.

At times i ask myself if it is worth all that hassle. In 1960 you married, take the marriage certificate to your countries government and get a passport for the spouse. End of story. These days, it is unbelievable where we are heading.

Governmental cancer. Governments grow and grow but the population is not growing. Today vs. 1960s we have computers to handle a 1000 times more workload than the people in the 60s could been handling .. but … it appears that this does not happen.