A Couple Questions

[Tatsu_Shiro]

 I am a natural born U.S. citizen, and I want to move to Canada. I wanted to know a couple things. I only have a high school diploma, but my companion, a common law partner is attending college now. I plan on going to school in the future, but want to establish residence in canada before I do. What steps do we need to take to get ourselves in. and can we live their while our applications are being proccessed? also, we have a friend who lives in toronto who would be willing to help us out. what should we do?

[PMM]

Hi

 I am a natural born U.S. citizen, and I want to move to Canada. I wanted to know a couple things. I only have a high school diploma, but my companion, a common law partner is attending college now. I plan on going to school in the future, but want to establish residence in canada before I do. What steps do we need to take to get ourselves in. and can we live their while our applications are being proccessed? also, we have a friend who lives in toronto who would be willing to help us out. what should we do?

Start reading at www.cic.gc.ca  Without a degree or an apprenticeship in a skilled trade, you have no chance of qualifying as skilled worker to emigrate.  No, your friend cannot help you out.  Take the assessment at the web site.

PMM

[DancingFeather]

You may have just a high school diploma but do you have any skilled certificates?
What are your job experiences? What is your friend willing to help you out with? A place to stay? Finding you a job?
No, you cannot stay in Canada while the application is being processed unless you had a job guaranteed which no Canadian can fill in then you could be allowed in quickly.
Toronto is english so no need to speak french, but it would be a good thing to learn it as if you ever want to go to Quebec, you need both languages.
Your friend cannot come while he is studying.
You could apply to come to study but then it takes at least 100,000$ for your schooling and caring for yourself, insurance, rent, food, clothing etc.
As said, if you have no skills then you can forget about applying as Canada is looking for skilled workers not someone who will be on welfare. They have enough of Canadians on welfare as it is.

[thaiguy]

 I am a natural born U.S. citizen, and I want to move to Canada. I wanted to know a couple things. I only have a high school diploma, but my companion, a common law partner is attending college now. I plan on going to school in the future, but want to establish residence in canada before I do. What steps do we need to take to get ourselves in. and can we live their while our applications are being proccessed? also, we have a friend who lives in toronto who would be willing to help us out. what should we do?

If your common-law partner qualifies as a skilled worker, you can immigrate together.  But he probably won't qualify until (at least) he has a 4-year degree and 4 years of experience.

Start by having your partner take the self-assessment:  http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/assess/index.asp