Hello all
I'm a british citizen who has been married for three years to a Canadian. We are currently living in the UK.
She has been offered (and taken) a job starting in Vancouver in a few months. We were wondering the best way to proceed (and the canadian immigration website is, to me, very confusing).
Should we apply for her to sponsor me now? I'm reading that that'll take a year and we'll have to submit our passports (is that right?) - which obviously is a no go as then she wouldn't be able to get into the UK. Or do we wait until I'm in Canada to do so?
If so, how do I get into the country? Do I need a work visa or a visitors permit? Or what?
Complicating this - for work, I'm a self-employed free-lance writer (ie my income comes from UK based production companies and so on) - I dunno if I should be applying for a work visa at all (seeing as I can conduct business in England and have wages paid into a bank account there.) So I guess technically I'd be supported in Canada by my wife? Is that how it works?
I don't know. I'm feeling utterly lost here and any suggestions for what to do would be very useful!
I'm a british citizen who has been married for three years to a Canadian. We are currently living in the UK.
She has been offered (and taken) a job starting in Vancouver in a few months. We were wondering the best way to proceed (and the canadian immigration website is, to me, very confusing).
Should we apply for her to sponsor me now? I'm reading that that'll take a year and we'll have to submit our passports (is that right?) - which obviously is a no go as then she wouldn't be able to get into the UK. Or do we wait until I'm in Canada to do so?
If so, how do I get into the country? Do I need a work visa or a visitors permit? Or what?
Complicating this - for work, I'm a self-employed free-lance writer (ie my income comes from UK based production companies and so on) - I dunno if I should be applying for a work visa at all (seeing as I can conduct business in England and have wages paid into a bank account there.) So I guess technically I'd be supported in Canada by my wife? Is that how it works?
I don't know. I'm feeling utterly lost here and any suggestions for what to do would be very useful!