Spouse Sponsorship - Leaving Canada while Permanent Residency is being processed?

Question

Hi -- I am sponsoring my wife from within Canada.
We submitted the complete application in Oct2006. We recevied a confirmation that our case is being processed in January2007.

1- when is she going to get the approval in principle? and when is she going to get the final permanent residency?

Also, we were told that she cannot leave Canada while she her application is being processed. For urgent reasons, she has to leave Canada for a whole month in Dec2007. We were told that the real problem is that if she leaves Canada ... (i) her PR application might be cancelled, and (ii) she might be denied re-entry into Canada.

2- How can she leave Canada and come back without her application being cancelled? First we thought of leaving and returning through the US but because we are going to LatinAmerica, so we are still in the risk of not being accepted for re-entry into Canada. What can we do?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you need to get a special waiver from the immigration office which will allow her to leave for up to 30 days. Talk to the immigration service or an immigration lawyer.