On the specifics with the spousal sponsorships, a lot of the newcomer clients that we see, by the time they actually get their finances and their lives together, want to start a new family. They eventually end up getting married, and by the time they come back, a lot of the details that are deemed reasons to constitute a legitimate marriage in a Canadian context are not really something that is shared or important in other cultures.
For example, on the specifics of somebody's job, a lot of professional engineers end up taking administrative jobs in other companies. When the wife is asked what her husband does, most of the time she responds, “My husband is an engineer”, because to her and in her country, her husband is an engineer. That deems her not credible.
What is the exact date of birth of her husband? There are things like that. For example, some of the clients, if he or she were married before, have to give the exact full name of the first spouse. It's these little details. It's not done in malice, but a lot of the time these are not important details for somebody who is starting a new life. These are not things that are taken into consideration and, in the context of a traditional Middle Eastern marriage, there isn't a lot of time for the couple to actually interact in the way it is understood in the Canadian context. That means that a lot of the time, the spouse, the marriage's legitimacy, and the credibility of the spouse who is being sponsored are undermined.