Canada has been a popular immigration destination for many years, offering:
A strong economy
Diverse culture
High-quality education system
Unlimited career opportunities
These factors make Canada a promising option for foreigners. With a streamlined immigration system, managed by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the process is smooth and fast. Immigrants can obtain permanent residency (PR) and citizenship within five years and bring their family members through sponsorship.
One of the most common visa options for family members is the Canadian Spouse Visa. If you're the spouse of a PR holder or Canadian citizen, here's what you need to know about applying for a spouse visa.
To qualify for a Canadian Spousal Visa, you must meet the following criteria:
You must be 18 years or older (applies to both the applicant and the Canadian spouse).
You must be the legal spouse of a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
The sponsor (your spouse) must have an approved sponsorship.
Your spouse must have a clean criminal record in Canada.
You must not have been invited to Canada as a sponsored partner within the last five years.
Application form (including sponsorship and PR application)
Proof of relationship: marriage certificate, wedding photos, joint bank statements, messages, etc.
Proof of identity: passport copy, citizenship card (if available)
Financial evidence: employment letter, payslips, tax returns, bank statements of your Canadian spouse
Police clearance certificate (for both applicant and spouse)
Medical examination reports
Photographs for the visa application
Application fee (paid online)
Immigration officials may request additional documents. Check with HelloVisa’s CRIC member for a full document checklist.
The Canadian Spouse Visa process is an online and systematic procedure. Here’s a step-by-step guide:
Your Canadian spouse must apply for a spousal sponsorship visa. They will submit the sponsorship application online to the immigration authorities. Once approved, the sponsorship documents are sent to you, the applicant, for further processing.
The applicant must submit a spouse visa application to IRCC online, along with supporting documents. Forms you need to complete include:
IMM 0008 (General Application Form for Canada)
IMM 5669 (Schedule A - Background/Declaration)
IMM 5406 (Additional Family Information)
IMM 5562 (Supplementary Information – Travel)
You’ll need to pay several fees, including:
Processing fee for spousal visa application
Right of Permanent Residence Fee (RPRF)
Biometric fees
Fees for medical exams and police clearance certificates
Upload additional documents such as medical examination reports, police certificates, and biometric data.
After completing the forms and attaching all the required documents, submit the application online. Make sure everything is accurate, as any errors could lead to rejection. To avoid mistakes, you can hire HelloVisa’s visa experts to handle the entire process for you.
The total cost of applying for a spouse visa includes:
Application fee: $1080
Referral fee: $75
Principal applicant processing fee: $490
Permanent resident fee: $515
Biometric fee: $85
Medical expenses (India): ?5,000
Police clearance certificate (India): ?1,000
The processing time for a Canadian Spouse Visa from India typically takes 8-9 months. However, delays may occur due to:
High volume of visa applications
Incomplete application forms
Missing or incorrect documents
Errors in the application forms
Processing time does not include the time taken for biometric data and medical exams.
At HelloVisa Immigration Consultancy in Ambala, we believe the Canadian Spouse Visa process is more than just paperwork. It’s about reuniting families and building new lives together. Here’s why you should trust HelloVisa:
Every relationship and visa application is unique. We provide personalized advice tailored to your situation to ensure your application meets all legal requirements.
Our team of visa experts is well-versed in the latest immigration policies and procedures, ensuring no critical detail is overlooked.
From form-filling to document submission, we guide you every step of the way to ensure your application is accurate and complete.
With our deep knowledge and experience, we’ve successfully helped many couples reunite in Canada, and we’re committed to maximizing your chances of approval.
At HelloVisa, you’ll always be kept in the loop with transparent updates throughout the visa process.
If you're looking to start your Canadian Spousal Visa application, reach out to HelloVisa today! We simplify the process, handle the paperwork, and ensure that your visa journey is as smooth as possible.
The ability to communicate or convey our messages effectively is the most important of all life skills. Communication is simply the act of exchanging information from one to another, whether this is verbal or non-verbal, written or visual. Keeping a conversation going is something of an art, and not everyone is born with this art but this is something that can be learned efficiently. Effective verbal communication is dependent on a number of factors and cannot be fully isolated from other important interpersonal skills such as non-verbal communication, listening skills and clarification. Clarity of speech, remaining calm and focused, being polite and following some basic rules of etiquette will all aid the process of verbal communication. Communication skills are crucial for building strong foundation for a successful future career of students. In today’s competitive era, communication skills in business are the most sought after quality of an educated person. Reading, writing, listening carefully and speaking effectively are the four most important communication skills for students.
What deserves more attention is that most of the students do not feel comfortable to address the masses or express themselves in public. This is where the students lack the expressive skills. Our everyday programs and teaching methodology are designed to develop these expressive skills, as we strongly opine that students need to learn how to communicate effectively and get the full attention of the listeners/audiences.
Our programs aim at the overall development of an individual not only for the exams but for their bright future as well.
English is the prime business language and it has become a necessity for people to speak English if they are to enter a globalized work environment. The process of learning English can be challenging and time consuming, we can see that it is also valuable to learn and can create opportunities to study/work across the globe!
Many people around us are not lucky enough to go to a brilliant English medium school, while most of those who studied in English medium schools are not able to express themselves well in English or lack the confidence to converse in English. This meant that even though the students learnt English as a subject, they still do not have many opportunities to brush up their grammar and spoken English skills. This later becomes the biggest hurdle for them in their way to success. The current generation of youth that had big dreams and wanted to make a difference suddenly realized after coming into the global platform after their studies that how much they have missed upon the functional English Language Learning! In today’s competitive era, it has become essential that people communicate fluently and efficiently if they want to progress in these cut throat competition times. Unless you have excellent English speaking skills, and knowledge of correct grammatical structures, there will always be a limit to your success and you will always be hindered by your own shortcomings!
Our Grammar and Spoken English course is designed in such a way that it caters to need of every individual who aims to carve a niche in the society. It covers a wide range of topics and everyday situations that will help the learners to overcome this shortcoming in their personal as well as professional life.
All time management begins with planning.
Do you often feel stressed out because you are not able to manage your time while preparing for exam? Time is undoubtedly one of your greatest tools for success in exams like IELTS and PTE where all the modules are supposed to be completed within the given/allotted time periods, and here you truly can't afford not to use it wisely.
In simple words, time management means consciously knowing how much time you should put and spend on a specific activity or question type. Learning how to manage your time gives you a laser focus on the most important things.
Time in exam hall is one of the key factors on how well you score. Besides proper preparation and study for exam, it is important to manage time in exam. All the language proficiency tests though are designed to assess your language still defer in their requirement to write, describe the subjects and even the time factors which affects the scoring. Time management is important in IELTS as well as PTE.
IELTS and time management: The IELTS Reading module requires the test-taker to read three passages and answer 40 questions in 60 minutes. Test-taker can work at his/her own pace. But how much time should he/she be spending on reading and how much time on answering the questions? IELTS writing Module requires test-taker to complete two writing tasks within the given time limit.
PTE and time management: Our day long reading orientation for both IELTS and PTE, will help you how to identify different question types and also be instrumental in learning how to locate and find answers in the given time period. The same pattern would be followed in the classroom during the training and preparation sessions classes in order to make the student comfortable and confident about his/her time management skills. Own your growth and your schedule.
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