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Quick question about the requirement that the sponsor resides in Canada:

My wife is a Canadian citizen and is sponsoring me (a U.S. citizen). She lives in Canada but is thinking of taking classes for a semester or two at a university in the U.S. We are trying to figure out whether this means we have to show proof that we will be moving to Canada once I get my PR or whether she is still considered to be residing in Canada.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

If her intention is only to be in the US temporarily, and she'll still have a permanent address in Canada, it's better to use the Canadian address and not have it be an issue. I know of one couple who ended up in a big mess because he was living in Canada, about 10 minutes from the border, but had a multiple-entry work visa for the States and a job there that he'd worked for 14 years. They made the mistake of using the address in the States of a friend that she was staying with, and where he would come and stay with her when he was working (thinking they had to show cohabitation), and they ended up having to jump through hoops - including him having to quit his job - just to prove that he intended to re-settle in Canada . . . when he'd actually never left. They nearly had their application refused because the immigration officer just could not be convinced that he didn't intend to send his wife to Canada and stay himself in the States. It was insane.

Thanks! That's what I was leaning towards too, and the experiences of that couple definitely confirm that.