Policy Brief: Spousal Sponsorship and Conditional Permanent Residence

This document contains two (2) policy briefs on the subject of Spousal Sponsorship. One from Jan 2016 and one from Nov 2016. These policy briefs present research on racial and gendered effects of conditional permanent residence (Conditional PR) and related policies that impact immigrants who are sponsored by their spouses or partners to immigrate to Canada. In this report, we focus on data that was retrieved from Citizenship and Immigration Canada for all sponsored spouses, common-law and conjugal partners between October 2012 and December 2014. Our research included conversations with front-line service providers, lawyers and immigrant advocates who were consulted through a series of community forums and individual interviews in Alberta and Ontario