Canadian citizen marital status separated ..how to bring girl friend from abroad to Canada
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You can't sponsor anyone for PR until you're officially married or common-law (having lived together 12 consecutive months). It's not possible to sponsor a girlfriend.
If she can come to Canada as a vistior (either by having a visa-exempt passport, or getting a TRV approved if she needs one), then she can stay in Canada as a visitor while you try to reach 12 months of cohabitation to become common-law and then apply to sponsor her for PR. Or even easier, get married and apply.
Once in Canada, she can try to extend her visitor status as needed.
Right. He must get legally divorced first, then marry his girlfriend, and then sponsor her as his spouse for PR.
Or he could live with her 12 months to become common-law, even if he was still married to a previous spouse on paper (as long as they were separated). Common-law does not require a legal divorce.
No - there's nothing like that.
They need to either get married or live together for a year to become common law before he will be able to sponsor her.