Secondary review IRCC
Me and my partner applied for common law sponsorship in February 2024. We were asked for interview in March 2026 which we went to. During the interview I was made aware of the fact that I failed to declare my marital status change to common law while my PR application was still active.She told us this make me (sponsor) ineligible to sponsor my common law/spouse. She recited IRCC law about misrepresentation and mentioned if I was a PR my PR could have been revoked too but I am a citizen now so there’s nothing they can do about it.
I won’t go much in details but After explaining the situation we were informed by the agent that she was convinced our relationship was genuine and she believed our explanation was genuine as to why I didn’t declare my common law partner. Case processing agent mentioned she will approve our application.
Our application was approved by the same day. Now it’s been 5 months we are waiting for his landing process to begin. So we contacted MP office and were informed a senior office is doing “Secondary Review”. Does anyone know what that is and how does it work? I have never heard of this before.
Also I would like to mention we got married in March 2025 not sure if that changes anything.