Permanent Resident Status and Living in Canada

living in Canada: Processing times have tripled recently. Thousands of Canadians are now having to wait more than two years to acquire permanent resident status for their foreign spouses already living in Canada. That means living in limbo for the foreign partner, including not being allowed to take a job or access health care coverage, according to Toronto Star. As a Canadian who has lived, worked and paid taxes here for 25 years, I just feel like a second-rate citizen, said Malcolm White of Oshawa, who married wife Anne in 2011. The Birmingham, England, resident joined him here two years later and filed an application for permanent resident status in December 2013 and Canadians caught up in Ottawa backlog in processing in-country spousal sponsorships are calling for an audit of the troubled program. A national online group called Canada Inland Spousal Sponsorship Petitioners says Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC must immediately establish service delivery standards, as recommended by the Office of the Auditor General in a scathing report in 2010. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.