Process Of Sponsoring Spouse And Obtaining Canadian Marriage Visas

If you are a permanent citizen of Canada and want to bring your spouse, common law partner or conjugal partner to the country legally, there is a very easy Visa procedure to obtain Canadian Marriage Visas. The basic requirement that a non Canadian citizen needs to meet to apply for a marriage visa is to be a legally married partner of a permanent citizen of Canada. This marriage automatically qualifies a foreign national to apply for a Canadian visa through the spouse who is the permanent citizen.

Therefore, the process of securing a Canadian Marriage Visa starts with marriage. Once a person is married to a permanent citizen of Canada he/she can comfortably move on with the immigration process. The immigrant visa for the spouse of a permanent citizen of Canada is called sponsorship of family class relatives. Other than spouse, the parents, dependent children, cousins, siblings, nephew, niece and grandchildren also come under the family class relatives.

You being a permanent citizen will apply for the marriage visa for your spouse who is a foreign national in Canada by sponsoring your spouse. Once the government approves the sponsorship, you can move on to further processing. Now, the Canadian immigration office will contact the Canadian High Commission of the country your spouse belongs to, and would inform them about this development, and of his/her current status as a Canadian citizen's spouse.

When the High Commission receives this information your spouse will be called at the office for further processing. They will tell him/her to submit all the required documents and personal details. They may also call him/her for an interview. This personal interview is to check whether the marriage has been solemnized out of love or just to secure a Canadian citizenship.

After she/he is through with this interview, she/he will need to go for the medical check up as well. This is needed to check whether they are fully fit to migrate or not, as the Canadian government only allows physically fit people to migrate. After medical checkup, they need to go for security clearance. This is the most important stage of the whole visa procedure.

Getting a security clearance is a very difficult thing to do. This is a lengthy procedure where the Canadian government checks that the persons who have applied for the Canadian marriage visas are of any national security threat to the country or not. After getting the security clearance, they qualify for getting the marriage visa. So, they are given a permanent citizen status.