Sponsor your spouse, partner or children
Effective December 22, 2014, eligible spouses or common-law partners have the opportunity to work in Canada while they wait for their application for permanent residence to be processed.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will issue open work permits to certain spouses or common-law partners who are applying for permanent residence from inside Canada, before the approval in principle decision on their application is made.
Program delivery update - December 22, 2014
That's pretty nice. I think one of my friends did that. She sponsor her husband. But they were both studying here beforehand. She did mention it took about 6 months or so.