An applicant married shortly after their AOR, proactively reported it via webform before the wedding even happened, and had IRCC confirm receipt of the update — but then received a PR approval email before the marriage documents were fully processed, without their new wife being added.
Members were clear on two points:
- Reply directly to the approval/status-confirmation email to report the change in marital status, rather than assuming the earlier webform is sufficient once a new communication has come in.
- You must inform IRCC of the marital status change at this stage — do not let it go unreported. Failing to formally update your marital status once married is treated as misrepresentation, and could jeopardize your ability to sponsor your spouse later.
- Since your wife wasn't part of the original PR application, sponsoring her after your own PR is finalized remains a fallback option — but the priority right now is making sure IRCC has the updated marital status on record before you confirm your own case, since misrepresentation risk applies regardless of which route you ultimately take.
Misrepresentation findings are serious and can carry a multi-year inadmissibility bar, so treat any marital status change during processing as something that must be formally reported, not just mentioned once and left alone.