06/22/2022
Due to the pandemic and other variants, there is an increasingly high number of people who are forced to live separately from their family members. A concrete example are spouses who should have been reunited in 2020 but are still waiting to be reunited in Canada because what used to take 10 to 12 months is now taking over two years.
When Sean Fraser, the new minister of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada was appointed to office, his mandate letter of December 16, 2021, clearly stated that he would, “work to strengthen family reunification by introducing electronic applications for family reunification and implementing a program to issue temporary resident status to spouses and children abroad while they wait for the processing of their permanent residency application.”
For those in this hard situation, they patiently wait for this promise to come through.
However, in the meantime, applications must be made because the longer it takes to submit the application, the longer it takes for a response. This is also true when the application isn’t properly submitted because when there is a missing document and something must be resubmitted, that is another two to three months tacked onto the already long wait time.
Do yourself the favour of hiring a professional who knows what’s best for your situation. No one person is the same. Some may have children, some may come from countries that are not visa exempt and some do. Avoid having to wait another two to three months because there was a form that was filled out incorrectly or a document that was not submitted.
Give yourself that peace of mind and visit www.onvisioncanada.com for more information.
For more information on Sean Fraser’s mandate letter, please click on the link below.
https://pm.gc.ca/en/mandate-letters/2021/12/16/minister-immigration-refugees-and-citizenship-mandate-letter