HOW TO REUNION WITH WIFE WHENSHE LOSTHER PR STATUS

Yes - you will have to apply to sponsor your wife from scratch and you will have to complete a full spousal sponsorship application (including medical, police certificates, etc.).

The timelines are posted here:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/international/05-fc-spouses.asp

ok thanks for the replies, but in my situation are there any special questions like she was already granted the pr status but she failed to keep it up and why she is trying to get it again,

Ditto . . . assuming her PR status is formally, officially gone.

I am curious, however, if there was an actual adjudication revoking her PR status. Just because she has stayed abroad long enough to fail to meet the PR residency requirements does not mean she automatically has lost PR status. (If she has not yet formally, offically had her PR revoked, see a lawyer, really, see a lawyer; this is the sort of situation that might be salvaged but it could be tricky accomplishing that.)

If she has, indeed, formally lost her PR status, I believe the others are correct. But in that case, you are also right to be concerned about the issues that might arise . . . why the lengthy separation? Certain assumptions are inherent: if you are a Canadian citizen and you were living with her abroad, that time would count toward meeting the residency requirement; if you are yourself a PR and were living abroad with her, then you too would have residency requirement problems; so I am assuming that one way or the other you were separated for a lenghty time. A lengthy separation may lead to inferences that the previous relationship was terminated or otherwise is not genuine. You will need to examine your circumstances with this in mind and carefully navigate your way through the application process to steer clear of the pitfalls such inferences might create. It is too complicated to speculate about all the possible scenarios there could be. For now, just be aware that if you are starting over, you must once again establish the existence of a qualifying relationship (and if that is based on events prior to her loss of PR, you need to evaluate if the circumstances could lead to the inference that that relationship has been terminated, and so ascertain whether you need to establish a new relationship (marry again, live together for a year to meet common-law, or such). You must also establish the genuineness of the relationship, and again, if the nature of the separation leads to inferences about the termination or breakdown of the relationship, you may have to more convincingly prove the genuineness of the relationship since then.