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Originally posted by india343

who are Adam and FH I am from india and punjabi

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From what I gather from your posts is that you got PR to Canada a long time ago. At that time you were working and still have 2.5 years to go. This tells me that you are not yet ready to accept a clean breakaway from your JOB and also from INDIA. So, what we will be helping you with currently is to help you decide once and for all that you will leave India and get back into CANADA and get re-united with your Family at large and with your spouse.

Let us take one item at a time.

1) You spouse can now enter here and stay and get her APPEAL for PR completed and once she appeals she can also apply for an extension of her Visa too till the whole process gets completed. It will take a good year of stay here for the completion. ALSO, you will need a good lawyer to help you with the appeals. So tackle that situation first.

That does not mean she can leave Canada for good after that. She still has to follow the instructions provided to her and complete the required 730 days OR less within the next FIVE Years and stay as a PR till she reaches 65. Then the Citizenship process kicks in. After 65 years of age, she does not have to take the language test to qualify for the Citizenship. Of course, she can always learn the language for FREE and become proficient and speak and write any of the languages. Now that is as far as you need to know about the spousal PR is concerned., till the Citizenship exams. I will leave it there for the time being.

2) Now to your case.: You have two choices. One is to take an EARLY retirement from your job with a pension and square your things there in India, but please keep the residence available to you and the family, till such a time you all feel that you will not return again to India. After your decision making process, if you are free to retire and then want to get back into Canada, you will have to follow the process all over again, which will be a lot quicker as the rest of the family is settled there in Canada.

On the contrary, if you want to follow the APPEAL Process for your PR right now, then ask a lawyer to appeal the same while your wife's appeal process is in progress and the lawyer can swing it in your favour on Humanitarian Grounds. as your wife is already in Canada and the rest of the family has already settled down here, which will make it easier for the appealing your PR case.

All these appeals will cost a few good bucks. But it will be easier to accept such a cost now than lament over your indecision later.

I would advice you to approach a lawyer at the Canadian End and start BOTH of these APPEALS RIGHT NOW. That will give you a peace of mind. That will also take an year or longer for your case to get resolved. At that time you will only have ONE More year to complete the requirements for your Pension also.

You can heave a sigh of relief at that particular time and take your pension from your Government job in India or a leave of absence from the job to complete the required time for your FULL pension once it gets resolved.

All of these things occurred in your life, and of course in your spouse's too, because you were not ready to make a CLEAN BREAKAWAY from your job and also your Pension from the job.

Since you are in a position to accommodate all of these financially, I would urge you to spend what ever it takes to get the situation rectified to your liking and establish your ties with the FAMILY and with Canada also.

Good Luck.

FH.

I would not have responded to this had I not seen Tk's wise recommendation to intervene. fh.

EDIT: Please keep a running account of the time and dates and all of the appeal process, as you will be needing these facts when you want to renew your Pr once more or for your Citizenship process also. fh.