Hello all.
I am an Austrian citizen living in the United Kingdom. As such as I can visit Canada for 6 months without having to apply for a Visa. I have known my Canadian girlfriend/fiancee for the past 18-19 months. We believe that we had a conjugal relationship we can easily prove. There are emails, phone bills, trips which we have been doing together. We have a joint bank account and her whole family including friends have met me. They are more than willing to give statutory statements that our relationship is genuine and continuing.
I am aware of this section:
"Because of Supreme Court decisions, the choice not to marry is a constitutionally protected
choice. Thus, CIC cannot require couples to marry in order to immigrate. However, if they are not
married, they must be common-law partners."
We are willing to marry, somewhere down the line. Wr believe that marriage is something we should not enter into just because it would make the sponsorship process easier. We can prove that we want to live together. We can also prove that this was not possible before, as I have had a full time work relationship and obligations with my family outside of Canada. However as I come from a Visa waiver country that does not seem to apply for me?
I am not quite sure how I would have been in any position to stay for 12 months to live together and qualify as common-law.
My question is two fold
a) Research seems to show me that applying under conjugal relationship status is very hard. Because you need to prove that for some reason you were not able to live together for a year (which would not work due to my work obligations) or marry (which we deliberately do not WANT for Immigration reasons only). As I said before I can drown immigration canada in pictures, phone records, joint accounts, statutory statements from both family sides, and so on. Should that not be enough?
b) It seems that a conjugal partner is _not_ permitted under any circumstances to apply from within Canada. With my temporary Visa I would be legally allowed to enter Canada and I would cohabitate with my partner. Is there no way to apply from within canada other than being married or already a common-law partner? Why are conjugal partners exempt?
Last but not least and I am sorry for making this a cumbersome post, some web-sites say that you can actually overstay your Tourist Visa as long as a family class sponsorship is in progress. That seems a bit daring to me, but is that information correct?
Our main intent is to be together without being "forced" to marry by the Canadian Immigration office. I am more than willing to give up my job and stay in Canada on a 6 month tourist "visa". As I come from a Visa Waiver country I assume that I could file for a Visa extension?
We are just tired of being apart from each other, any help is appreciated. Thank you
Thank you!
I am an Austrian citizen living in the United Kingdom. As such as I can visit Canada for 6 months without having to apply for a Visa. I have known my Canadian girlfriend/fiancee for the past 18-19 months. We believe that we had a conjugal relationship we can easily prove. There are emails, phone bills, trips which we have been doing together. We have a joint bank account and her whole family including friends have met me. They are more than willing to give statutory statements that our relationship is genuine and continuing.
I am aware of this section:
"Because of Supreme Court decisions, the choice not to marry is a constitutionally protected
choice. Thus, CIC cannot require couples to marry in order to immigrate. However, if they are not
married, they must be common-law partners."
We are willing to marry, somewhere down the line. Wr believe that marriage is something we should not enter into just because it would make the sponsorship process easier. We can prove that we want to live together. We can also prove that this was not possible before, as I have had a full time work relationship and obligations with my family outside of Canada. However as I come from a Visa waiver country that does not seem to apply for me?
I am not quite sure how I would have been in any position to stay for 12 months to live together and qualify as common-law.
My question is two fold
a) Research seems to show me that applying under conjugal relationship status is very hard. Because you need to prove that for some reason you were not able to live together for a year (which would not work due to my work obligations) or marry (which we deliberately do not WANT for Immigration reasons only). As I said before I can drown immigration canada in pictures, phone records, joint accounts, statutory statements from both family sides, and so on. Should that not be enough?
b) It seems that a conjugal partner is _not_ permitted under any circumstances to apply from within Canada. With my temporary Visa I would be legally allowed to enter Canada and I would cohabitate with my partner. Is there no way to apply from within canada other than being married or already a common-law partner? Why are conjugal partners exempt?
Last but not least and I am sorry for making this a cumbersome post, some web-sites say that you can actually overstay your Tourist Visa as long as a family class sponsorship is in progress. That seems a bit daring to me, but is that information correct?
Our main intent is to be together without being "forced" to marry by the Canadian Immigration office. I am more than willing to give up my job and stay in Canada on a 6 month tourist "visa". As I come from a Visa Waiver country I assume that I could file for a Visa extension?
We are just tired of being apart from each other, any help is appreciated. Thank you
Thank you!