Hi Guys
Hope you all had a good New Year celebrations. Here is my situation and would appreciate if you can offer some suggestions.
I'm a PR holder who lived in Canada for about 16 months (9 months in work permit and the last 7 months as a landed immigrant). I subsequently left Canada for work reasons. My PRC expires by March 2013. I guess i need to complete 24 months to renew the card which leaves me with a deadline of returning back to Canada by late 2011.
My issue is how to sponsor my wife and kid? I see that as a PR holder i can only sponsor them from Canada and not from outside.
Does anyone know of an option of applying for spouse and kid PR from outside Canada (unfortunately I'm not very sure whether my spouse would qualify as skilled immigrant on her own)
An option i thought was that all of us travel to Canada (wife and kid on visit visa and they get 180 days i suppose) and once we are there, i can manage to find a job and submit their sponsorship? Downside of this being applications will have to be done from Canada and there is no right of appeal and the process is extremely time consuming etc.
Suggestions please!
Cheers
Hope you all had a good New Year celebrations. Here is my situation and would appreciate if you can offer some suggestions.
I'm a PR holder who lived in Canada for about 16 months (9 months in work permit and the last 7 months as a landed immigrant). I subsequently left Canada for work reasons. My PRC expires by March 2013. I guess i need to complete 24 months to renew the card which leaves me with a deadline of returning back to Canada by late 2011.
My issue is how to sponsor my wife and kid? I see that as a PR holder i can only sponsor them from Canada and not from outside.
Does anyone know of an option of applying for spouse and kid PR from outside Canada (unfortunately I'm not very sure whether my spouse would qualify as skilled immigrant on her own)
An option i thought was that all of us travel to Canada (wife and kid on visit visa and they get 180 days i suppose) and once we are there, i can manage to find a job and submit their sponsorship? Downside of this being applications will have to be done from Canada and there is no right of appeal and the process is extremely time consuming etc.
Suggestions please!
Cheers