I am creating this thread to help all those who wants or will want to add their Spouse to their Canada Application after receiving PPR request.
I will share my timeline and you can share yours in order to help others to understand the scenario.
Synopsis:
Age - 29, residing in USA on H1 visa. Got married in Jan 2020 while Canada PR application is pending.
Application received by IRCC on August 23, 2019.
Feb 5: Received email from CPCO to send Passport
Feb 11: Updated IRCC about marital status change through IRCC Web form
Feb 18: Sent Email to IRCC after not receiving reply for over a week Email Sample
Feb 19: Got mail from cic.gc.ca to check back on the portal
On logging in, I was required to upload my Marriage Certificate
Feb 24: Again got mail from cic.gc.ca reading - new message
-There was a new document attached which required basically all the details of my spouse and needs to be submitted within 30 days
-deadline is March 25 2020
Mar 7 (Present day):
-completed FBI Fingerprints
-waiting for India PCC (Houston Embassy)
-completing required forms i.e IMM_0008, IMM_5406, etc. and preparing other docs
-planning to get her medical done in advance
Hope you are doing well!! Did you submit your documents?
I have the similar situation. I’m in the process of collecting all the required documents.
Have couple questions, would you be able to help me.
Cic profile is now allowing to add the additional document and it seems only one single PDF can be attached and less than 5 MB. I feel all the documents and photos add up to more than 5GB. What are the options if we cannot upload all of them in 1 file.
Please let me know if you have any specific format for the questionnaire that the couple have to answer.
Hello! Thank you for the informative timeline. I wanted to ask if you finally got a decision on your application and how long it took from when you upload your spouse’s documents.
Hope you doing well!!
I am going to share my PR application processing. I applied for a PR application for myself under the provincial nomination from Winnipeg on March 5th, 2019. It took a whole of one year to get COPR and received a Passport request on March 12th, 2020.
March 5: But I updated CIC about the change in the Marital status on March 3rd, 2020 using the IRCC Web form also attached marriage certificate. Also sent an Email to IRCC that I received in the COPR email.
April 20: I waited & Talked to the CIC Client center about this, as COVID-19 going on so it was updated that none of the officers open the file after issuing COPR.
May 7: I sent all the required forms and documentation to add my spouse to the file. Have not got any response throughout the year.
Jan 6:On January 6th, 2021 there is an update in the CIC portal about adding my dependant.
From that day till today no update yet but Medical is under review. I received GCSM notes as well. My file is under process at CPC Ottawa. It is not forwarded to my province. Almost 23 months about to finish since March 2019.
My question is now: what is your opinion about my file? how long it would take more?
Hi, i got PPR as spouse non accompanying, but can i request as spouse accompanying now, we would both like to travel together now. Did anyone face such situation.
Hey did u get any information regarding the process. Even i am an expired COPR holder and my spouse is a PPR mail holder. I was asked to pay total fee again for adding spouse but he already is a PPR holder. What do I do?
My AOR date is 27th October and I received PPR sometime in mid December. I got married in late November and because of that i didn’t send my passport for stamping. I requested ircc to add my spouse to my application.
Now my spouse has been added to my application as a dependent and i am seeing her under my profile.
We have submitted all the documents for her and received the AOR for document submission.
But my question is since i live in US and her still in India, can she exit India now? Will the Indian pcc that we submitted be invalid if she leaves India? Can someone please confirm. Thanks in advance.
P.S. We have also not received BIL request for her
Although, that’s the point of adding someone as a non-accompanying (and why you need to get medicals and the like done for a non-accompanying spouse or dependant) - so you can sponsor them to come later.
I think you just needed to write a webform to IRCC to to update the status of your spouse from non-accompanying to accompanying and then it’s straightforward.
If the spouse is a PPR holder then it sounds like the spouse is eligible to apply for PR individually. So you don’t need to add your spouse.
If you want to add your spouse anyways, you do need to pay the fee to add a spouse I think (though this is cheaper than a separate PR application - either independent or say to sponsor a spouse).
