02-11-2010, 05:30 PM
Hello,
I have a couple of questions concerning marriage and spousal sponsorship
Can somebody help me this issue?
I am gonna start from the beginning for a better understanding of the situation.
We are a couple.
She is a 25 year old Canadian citizen (Quebecois) with steady secure job
with more than 25 dollars per hour.I am a 22 year old European citizen from the country which does not need visa for visiting as tourist (just a passport and convincing the officer on the port of entry that i will be out after maximum of 6 months visit expires).We met almost three years ago and fell in love with each other.Since that time she visited me 5 times and lived with me in my country for 3 months all together during 2007-2008.
In 2009 I decided to come to Canada as a tourist and I stayed there for 4 months studying English and french cause our goal was to live together and I wanted to apply to university in Montreal (Quebec,Canada). I had some finance problems and I couldn't afford to apply to university which was already too expansive cause I was ranked as foreign student who needs a study permit to study and university fees for foreign students were really big so I didn't apply.I came back home to my country and worked for 20 days and due to our separation and it was very hard I decided at the end of 2009 to return to Canada again on the 6 months tourist visa to study more English and French and to a present day I am in Canada now,it is 11.02.2010 and I have exacly one month left before my visitor (tourist) visa of 6 months expires.
What I am concerned about is following:
We are engaged and we want to get married but we are not sure what would be the right choice to chose.
Canadian immigration offers two kinds of application for a spousal sponsorship,inland and outside Canada.
1.)So my first question is should we get married here while I am still in Canada and can my fiance sponsor me while i am on the tourist visa?
This question provokes other three questions:
2)If I apply for spousal sponsorship and permanent residence inland,inside of Canada ,What is happening when I need to leave because my tourist visa expires in one month?
3.)Can I stay more (over stay illegally while my application for sponsorship is in the process)?
4.)Can I apply or demand a possibility to work or study or even extend my stay because of the marriage inside Canada and application process?
and final question for inland spousal sponsorship application is how long would it take usually for process to be finished?
On the Canadian immigration web page says 12-18 months for inland applications,is there any way to speed it up?I mean to "first stage of approval"?How does it work?
This was concerning inland sponsorship.
I have also other possibility.
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The other possibility is for us to fly to my country together when my tourist visa expires in one month (beginning of March) and to get married there.
This also has a few problems.
I wanted to go back to my country with my girlfriend and marry her in my hometown in March.She would take vacation brake from her work 10 days what she has maximum and come with me to my country.
We taught about getting married and then she returns to Canada immediately and the we start a spousal sponsorship for marriage outside Canada and I read a lot on the net,many people say it is much more easier.
So we would do the application while I am in my home country and she is in Canada.
My first question is :
1.)Can I come to Canada on a tourist visa after we submit the application for spousal sponsorship outside Canada?I mean can I come to Canada with a tourist reason again but waiting for a permanent residence?
I was thinking about taking again 6 months language course from april to september 2010 like I did before in 2009 just this time I would be already in the proces of spousal sponsorship an application for a permanent residence.
Another questions arise:
2.)What should I say when I come on the port of entry in April and demand a tourist visa?
3.)Can I say that she is my girlfried?(they probably know everithing)
4.)Can I be honest and say that I came to Canada because we want to live together while our process is being finished (it should not take more than 6 months judging by experiances I have heard of).and that I want to intergrate and learn French and English (I already speak and write french fluently and english to but I am not exelent jet so that could be a good reason for better intergration).
On the internet I have found many different data and information on this issue that vary because of the little differences in other peopels situations.
Which was not enlightning and satisfying so I decided to post and ask question which are bothering me.
Thank you very much for your time and patiance for reading and understanding my problem.
Any kind of insights,advices and helps are welcome.
And if somebody has experiance and will to answer my questions
I would really appreciated it.
Thanx
Jure
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I have a couple of questions concerning marriage and spousal sponsorship
Can somebody help me this issue?
I am gonna start from the beginning for a better understanding of the situation.
We are a couple.
She is a 25 year old Canadian citizen (Quebecois) with steady secure job
with more than 25 dollars per hour.I am a 22 year old European citizen from the country which does not need visa for visiting as tourist (just a passport and convincing the officer on the port of entry that i will be out after maximum of 6 months visit expires).We met almost three years ago and fell in love with each other.Since that time she visited me 5 times and lived with me in my country for 3 months all together during 2007-2008.
In 2009 I decided to come to Canada as a tourist and I stayed there for 4 months studying English and french cause our goal was to live together and I wanted to apply to university in Montreal (Quebec,Canada). I had some finance problems and I couldn't afford to apply to university which was already too expansive cause I was ranked as foreign student who needs a study permit to study and university fees for foreign students were really big so I didn't apply.I came back home to my country and worked for 20 days and due to our separation and it was very hard I decided at the end of 2009 to return to Canada again on the 6 months tourist visa to study more English and French and to a present day I am in Canada now,it is 11.02.2010 and I have exacly one month left before my visitor (tourist) visa of 6 months expires.
What I am concerned about is following:
We are engaged and we want to get married but we are not sure what would be the right choice to chose.
Canadian immigration offers two kinds of application for a spousal sponsorship,inland and outside Canada.
1.)So my first question is should we get married here while I am still in Canada and can my fiance sponsor me while i am on the tourist visa?
This question provokes other three questions:
2)If I apply for spousal sponsorship and permanent residence inland,inside of Canada ,What is happening when I need to leave because my tourist visa expires in one month?
3.)Can I stay more (over stay illegally while my application for sponsorship is in the process)?
4.)Can I apply or demand a possibility to work or study or even extend my stay because of the marriage inside Canada and application process?
and final question for inland spousal sponsorship application is how long would it take usually for process to be finished?
On the Canadian immigration web page says 12-18 months for inland applications,is there any way to speed it up?I mean to "first stage of approval"?How does it work?
This was concerning inland sponsorship.
I have also other possibility.
-----------------------------
The other possibility is for us to fly to my country together when my tourist visa expires in one month (beginning of March) and to get married there.
This also has a few problems.
I wanted to go back to my country with my girlfriend and marry her in my hometown in March.She would take vacation brake from her work 10 days what she has maximum and come with me to my country.
We taught about getting married and then she returns to Canada immediately and the we start a spousal sponsorship for marriage outside Canada and I read a lot on the net,many people say it is much more easier.
So we would do the application while I am in my home country and she is in Canada.
My first question is :
1.)Can I come to Canada on a tourist visa after we submit the application for spousal sponsorship outside Canada?I mean can I come to Canada with a tourist reason again but waiting for a permanent residence?
I was thinking about taking again 6 months language course from april to september 2010 like I did before in 2009 just this time I would be already in the proces of spousal sponsorship an application for a permanent residence.
Another questions arise:
2.)What should I say when I come on the port of entry in April and demand a tourist visa?
3.)Can I say that she is my girlfried?(they probably know everithing)
4.)Can I be honest and say that I came to Canada because we want to live together while our process is being finished (it should not take more than 6 months judging by experiances I have heard of).and that I want to intergrate and learn French and English (I already speak and write french fluently and english to but I am not exelent jet so that could be a good reason for better intergration).
On the internet I have found many different data and information on this issue that vary because of the little differences in other peopels situations.
Which was not enlightning and satisfying so I decided to post and ask question which are bothering me.
Thank you very much for your time and patiance for reading and understanding my problem.
Any kind of insights,advices and helps are welcome.
And if somebody has experiance and will to answer my questions
I would really appreciated it.
Thanx
Jure
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