If you're a Canadian PR sponsoring your spouse from abroad and are wondering whether you can quit your Canadian job to be with them while the application is processing:
- You can leave your job and travel to be with your spouse, as long as you maintain your PR status. PR status has its own residency obligation (roughly needing to be physically present in Canada for a portion of every five years), which is separate from any single employer or job.
- Your primary residence should still be understood to be Canada. Even while temporarily staying abroad with your spouse, treat Canada as your home base rather than establishing permanent residence elsewhere — this matters both for your own PR obligations and for how the sponsorship application is viewed.
- Submitting an employment letter earlier in the process doesn't lock you into that job. Job changes after submission generally don't retroactively affect the sponsorship application, since spousal sponsorship isn't points-based on your employment the way Express Entry is.
In short: temporary travel or even quitting your job is generally fine, but keep your PR residency obligations and Canada-as-home-base in mind throughout.