Complicated - Canadian Experience into a Common Law partner visa, help!

[Kuz]

Hello,

I asked this in the Canadian Experience forum, but it kinda crosses a lot of "visa" categories, so thought I might try my luck here...

I plan to move to Canada shortly on a Experience Canada Visa to live with my girlfriend. I will be there for 1 year, which is the length of time required to qualify as a common law partner.

However, I need to apply for an extension of my visa to change it to Common Law 30 days BEFORE the Visa runs out. This means we'll have been living together for 11 months before i apply, and therefore will not qualify. I have several questions:

1) On the dates for the Common Law partner application, can i put that we've been living together full 12 months, as in post-date the "until" date a month, assuming that we will have completed the 1 year by the time my Experience Canada visa runs out

or

2) Can i enter Canada as a "visitor" for 90 days, living with my girlfriend, then leave for a day (she lives on the Canada/US border) and then re-enter with my Canadian Experience Visa (i.e hand my letter to them this time). This way, we will have been living together continously for 1 year three months before my 1 year visa runs out, and it'll be easy to prove...

or

3) Will it be easier to do the other way round. Live for a year with her, then change my visa to a visitor visa, so then we'll have completed one year 30 days before I apply for a Common Law visa. (or i could apply for a self-employed visa or ANY other type of visa before the 1 year visa runs out, then use THAT extended period to apply for Common Law visa?

Are any of these options feasible?

Thanks

[PMM]

Hi

Hello,

I asked this in the Canadian Experience forum, but it kinda crosses a lot of "visa" categories, so thought I might try my luck here...

I plan to move to Canada shortly on a Experience Canada Visa to live with my girlfriend. I will be there for 1 year, which is the length of time required to qualify as a common law partner.

However, I need to apply for an extension of my visa to change it to Common Law 30 days BEFORE the Visa runs out. This means we'll have been living together for 11 months before i apply, and therefore will not qualify. I have several questions:

1) On the dates for the Common Law partner application, can i put that we've been living together full 12 months, as in post-date the "until" date a month, assuming that we will have completed the 1 year by the time my Experience Canada visa runs out

or

2) Can i enter Canada as a "visitor" for 90 days, living with my girlfriend, then leave for a day (she lives on the Canada/US border) and then re-enter with my Canadian Experience Visa (i.e hand my letter to them this time). This way, we will have been living together continously for 1 year three months before my 1 year visa runs out, and it'll be easy to prove...

or

3) Will it be easier to do the other way round. Live for a year with her, then change my visa to a visitor visa, so then we'll have completed one year 30 days before I apply for a Common Law visa. (or i could apply for a self-employed visa or ANY other type of visa before the 1 year visa runs out, then use THAT extended period to apply for Common Law visa?

Are any of these options feasible?

Thanks

1.  12 months is still months,.
2.  Yes.
3.  Either way, but note it is not just "living together" for c/law you have to merge your lives.