Canada is the perfect country to settle with family and enjoy high living standards and quality life. Family sponsored visas are the key highlight of the Canada immigration program. It allows the permanent residents and citizens in Canada to sponsor their eligible family members, i.e. spouse/ common-law partner, parents and grandparents, dependent children, etc. to get permanent residency in Canada. Spousal Sponsorship Program is the most popular immigration category in Canada. Every year, tens of thousands of people apply for a spousal sponsorship visa in Canada and get the same.

Canada’s Spouse Visa Program of Canada is a sub-category of the Family Sponsorship Program only. It allows the Canadian permanent residents and citizens to sponsor their spouse or Common-law-partner for Permanent Residency in Canada.

IRCC(Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada) allows the sponsors of Canadian Spouse Category visas (i.e. Canadian Permanent residents and citizens) to do so. This ensures the hassle free visa allocation to the sponsored people.

To sponsor the Spousal Sponsorship visa, the sponsor must be related to the sponsored person as

• Spouse
• Common-law Partner
• Conjugal Partner

We consider Spousal sponsorship as Outland Sponsorship if the partner being sponsored is outside Canada. The visa Office of the applicant’s home country receives and processes the outland applications. Though the outland applicant can be in Canada and apply as outland applicant.

Inland pathway is the other key option to apply for Spousal Sponsorship program. Inland Sponsorship is the situation where both the partners are in Canada as the partner being sponsored has the temporary status in Canada, i.e. visitor, student, etc. A person being sponsored for Spousal Sponsorship Visa is also eligible to apply for open work permit to work in Canada, while his/her Spousal Sponsorship visa is in process.

You can be a sponsor of the Spousal category visa provided, you are:

• 18 years or above
• A permanent resident or citizen of Canada
• Able to demonstrate that you are not getting any social assistance (apart from disability if any)
• Able to demonstrate that you can provide basic needs to the sponsored person, i.e. your spouse or partner
• If you are residing in Quebec province of Canada, you need to fulfill Quebec’s conditions for sponsorship.