Hi! I'm in a same-sex relationship with my girlfriend for more than 4 years now. I will be landing as a PR this month and we are already thinking of means for us to be together in Canada. I have been reading some posts regarding conjugal sponsorship here but I haven't found a post with a successful application. My partner and I have the following and are in this situation:
- Our relationship is discreet. We met as co-workers and have been together since then. There were a lot of rumors about our relationship but neither of us acknowledged it. We have never outed our relationship to our parents as well. We visit each other's cities in the Philippines and get to stay in each other's houses from time to time but we only tell others that we are "best friends". There are only two people who we have freely outed our relationship, our roommates when we were still working abroad.
- We have pictures and conversation since the beginning of our relationship and even when we were still in the dating stage.
- We have traveled together outside of the country but we always bring some of our family members just to avoid any suspicion about our relationship although we have some travels where we were alone. (Visited Places: Singapore, Hongkong, Macau, Thailand, some places in the Philippines)
- I'm a Catholic and she is from another Christian sector. Both of our religion does not allow a same-sex relationship. For her, if her church finds out of our relationship, she will be removed from the religion and will shame her family as well.
- We have a joint account and we purchased a condo unit under our names. (No contract yet as we are still paying the downpayment monthly for 5 years but we have a notarized memorandum of agreement.)
Based on what we have, do we stand a chance if I will sponsor her as a conjugal partner? More than getting married in Canada, we just actually wanted to live freely without even thinking about what our family and friends in the Philippines would say. If our chance for conjugal partnership is not okay, then we are planning for her to get a tourist visa to get married in Canada instead. (My partner has a travel agency and apartment in the Philippines. Funds won't be a problem. Travel history was mentioned above, she also visited Japan.)
The post is quite long but I hope you guys can help us.. Thanks!
- Our relationship is discreet. We met as co-workers and have been together since then. There were a lot of rumors about our relationship but neither of us acknowledged it. We have never outed our relationship to our parents as well. We visit each other's cities in the Philippines and get to stay in each other's houses from time to time but we only tell others that we are "best friends". There are only two people who we have freely outed our relationship, our roommates when we were still working abroad.
- We have pictures and conversation since the beginning of our relationship and even when we were still in the dating stage.
- We have traveled together outside of the country but we always bring some of our family members just to avoid any suspicion about our relationship although we have some travels where we were alone. (Visited Places: Singapore, Hongkong, Macau, Thailand, some places in the Philippines)
- I'm a Catholic and she is from another Christian sector. Both of our religion does not allow a same-sex relationship. For her, if her church finds out of our relationship, she will be removed from the religion and will shame her family as well.
- We have a joint account and we purchased a condo unit under our names. (No contract yet as we are still paying the downpayment monthly for 5 years but we have a notarized memorandum of agreement.)
Based on what we have, do we stand a chance if I will sponsor her as a conjugal partner? More than getting married in Canada, we just actually wanted to live freely without even thinking about what our family and friends in the Philippines would say. If our chance for conjugal partnership is not okay, then we are planning for her to get a tourist visa to get married in Canada instead. (My partner has a travel agency and apartment in the Philippines. Funds won't be a problem. Travel history was mentioned above, she also visited Japan.)
The post is quite long but I hope you guys can help us.. Thanks!