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By Henry J. Chang, Dentons LLP | 2 Minutes Read March 15, 2012

CIC imposes five-year waiting period for sponsored spouses and common-law partners

On March 2, 2012, the Government of Canada announced a regulatory change that now requires sponsored spouses or common-law partners to wait five years from the day that they are granted permanent residence status in Canada before they can sponsor a new spouse or partner. The objective of this regulatory change was to discourage immigration fraud in spouse/common-law partner family class cases.

Article by Henry J. Chang, Dentons LLP / Employee Relations, Immigration / Canada, employment law, Foreign workers, Hiring foreign workers, immigration fraud, permanent resident, sponsored common-law partners, sponsored spouses

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