That is a separate application structure requiring each person’s own eligibility, admissibility and visa-availability assessment. Do not infer approval from the ability to pay. Run each person's assessment on its own timeline as well as its own facts. Two applications filed together do not conclude together, since eligibility, admissibility and visa availability are determined individually and can move at different speeds for two people in one household. Plan on that basis from the start.
Distinguish independent applicants from joining relatives
The current individual principal commitment is US$15,000 nonrefundable processing and a US$1 million gift after vetting. An eligible spouse addition uses published family amounts but depends on the qualifying relationship; matching costs do not make the routes interchangeable. Ask what the household does if one determination lands well before the other.
Employment start dates, a school year, a lease and the sale of a home in Canada each carry their own deadline, and a plan assuming a single joint move can leave one person committed and the other waiting. Where children are involved, an age condition applies to the joining-family description, so a child's date of birth belongs on the timeline alongside everything else. Set a review point at which the household re-reads the published terms and its own assumptions together, because a plan made once and never revisited is the one that fails quietly.