If you sponsor your spouse or common-law partner to Canada, you remain financially responsible for them for a three-year period even if the relationship breaks down for whatever reason and you may not sponsor any other individual as your family sponsorship or common-law partner during this time.
If you were yourself sponsored to Canada as a spouse or common-law partner, you may not sponsor someone as your spouse or common-law partner for five years.
Because you have already sponsored someone to Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will scrutinize your seconding sponsorship application to ensure that you and your new spouse are in a genuine, committed, long term and permanent relationship. Immigration must ensure that the relationship and the sponsorship were not entered solely for the purpose to gain an advantage in Canada ie legal status in Canada.
