I need some help! please

[Line.a]

alright! so i'm currently in Canada for the 3rd time in a year.. my boyfriend is coming back to Europe with me to stay for a month travelling. Then the plan is that i'm coming back again to Canada with him to stay for 6 months! all my recent visits have been over a month at least - should that cause any problems next time i'll enter customs? i'm quite concerned about it.

another thing! we're gonna start the common-law and we're gonna live together but someone else is gonna live at the same address - does that apply?

hope someone can help.. thanks!

[Iamrobot85]

For the Common-Law issue, you have to live together for a year before you qualify, and you have to prove you lived together.  Above and beyond that,  It shouldn't matter if someone else is living with you. 

As for customs, it's tricky.  Every customs officer is different.  It depends on who you get when you cross and where you are from.  If you cannot satisfy your customs officer that you intend to eventually return to your home country, he or she can deny you entry.  The fact that you have visited Canada so often I don't think will hurt you so long as you have not overstayed your visa or temporary residence.  It might actually help you that you've visited before and left before your visa/temporary residence ran out. 

If I were you, I would bring as much stuff as you possibly can to prove you intend to return to your home country.  Bills to an address there, bank statements, a letter from an employer if you can.  Probably most of this will be redundant but it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.  From someone who has been bullied by customs more times than he cares to remember, it's always good advice to be over-prepared

[missmini]

alright! so i'm currently in Canada for the 3rd time in a year.. my boyfriend is coming back to Europe with me to stay for a month travelling. Then the plan is that i'm coming back again to Canada with him to stay for 6 months! all my recent visits have been over a month at least - should that cause any problems next time i'll enter customs? i'm quite concerned about it.

another thing! we're gonna start the common-law and we're gonna live together but someone else is gonna live at the same address - does that apply?

hope someone can help.. thanks!

it should not matter that someone else is living there; u will still b eligible to apply after 1 continous year....but if u r both used with roommates then u need to prove to them even more that both of u r not roommates, u r living in a conjugal relationship etc....

on a side note, if u looked already over the forms, in the spouse questionnaire there is a question like : is someone else living at the same address with u two? maybe they even ask the name, i don't recall exactly....they ask this question with a reason, but don't know what their reason might be

good luck!