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Is An Immigration Lawyer Needed for Spousal Sponsorship Approval?

Blog posted on by Evelyn Ackah in Family Class and Spousal Sponsorship

Is An Immigration Lawyer Needed for Spousal Sponsorship Approval?

Although you don’t need lawyers or immigration consultants for submitting a spousal sponsorship, spousal sponsorships can be confusing. Spousal sponsorship applications can be confusing. At Ackah Law, we advise that you consult an immigration lawyer who has experience in Family Class applications so that you don't waste time or money - or risk having your immigration application rejected.

Recently we received this grateful testimonial from an Ackah Law client:

Thank you! what a great team effort! Your guidance on this matter since 2017 has been greatly appreciated!
- Kelly, on his wife's Spousal Sponsorship

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) sponsorship regulations allow you to sponsor a spouse or partner to become a permanent resident of Canada if:

  • you are a Canadian citizen, registered in Canada as an Indian, or a permanent resident of Canada
  • you're 18 years old or older
  • you live in Canada
  • you have can prove you have enough income to provide basic needs for your spouse or partner’s dependent children.

IRCC considers marriage fraud and sham marriages, including a marriage of convenience, a serious issue. In 2010, changes to Canada's immigration regulations made any spouse ineligible to be sponsored if their marriage's "primary purpose" at the time of the wedding was to gain immigration status. Recently, CBC News shared one immigrant couple's story that after 20 years, the British Columbia man and his wife are still living in different countries because multiple attempts to sponsor her for Canadian permanent residency have failed.

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If you have any questions on spousal sponsorship or marriage fraud that you'd like to discuss before you apply, please contact Ackah Immigration Business Law at (403) 452-9515 Ext. 100 or 1-800-932-1190 or email us directly to find out if you are qualified to move to Canada.

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Evelyn L. Ackah, BA, LL.B.

Founder/Managing Lawyer

Ms. Ackah is passionate about immigration law because it focuses on people and relationships, which are at the core of her personal values. Starting her legal career as a corporate/commercial ...

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It is one thing to earn a living; it is another thing to make a difference in the world.

This is our formal thank you note to Evelyn Ackah and the Ackah Law Team for all the effort they put into helping us navigate and finally resolve the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration back in the spring of 2012.

A friend referred us to Evelyn; he assured us that Evelyn would take good care of us. Our friend was confident we were in good hands and said Evelyn would do her very best to help us and she did! At the time we did not know that his referral would go far beyond finding us help. Slowly we realized that it would become our own personal story of how we received grace and were reminded of the power in paying it forward

We wrote a detailed page of our dilemma, explaining how we came to be in the position we were in (overwhelmed with the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration and the uncertainty that we faced as a young family in Calgary). Evelyn agreed to take on our file with her team. They found the time to personally call us and listened intently and understood the details of what we were dealing with. They gave us their time, an honest opinion and provided clear direction which proved to be invaluable advice. Months went by but in time, we received word from Ackah Law that the Immigration office had finally reviewed our file and a decision had been made allowing our family to finally put the immigration matter to rest. We were finally able to focus again to live our lives without fear or pending doom.

Looking back now, even the sun appeared to shine a little brighter that day. At first we didn’t know whether to bake them a cake, drive out to meet their team, find their offices and personally thank them with a mighty hug or simply cry out to the heavens in thankful relief. Instead we emailed them to express our heartfelt thank-you and we hoped that they would know deep in their hearts just how grateful we were for all of their help.

Even though we relied on emails and phone conversations to communicate with them that year, we will always remember their constant professionalism, their kindness and understanding at a time that brought us so much pain not to mention fear. As if all their hard work wasn’t enough, Evelyn then then casually mentions that all their work was done pro-bono! We were thoroughly humbled!

To this day we are still eager to share how wonderful they all are as human beings but even more than that, we continue to pay it forward in honour of them, their service to us and their continued dedication in helping others.

Eternally thankful

– The Brummunds

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