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Ahuch

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Mar 31, 2012
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Hello,

Not sure if this is the right forum to post this or not, but I will post it here anyways since I am new to the forum and I am looking for help.

I won't really go into all the details, but here is a little bit, I have lived in Canada all my life, I was born here and up until about two years ago never really left. However in September 2010, my family and I decided to move down to Belize, Central America in hopes that my parents could retire down there. As I was not really doing anything at the time, didn't have a job, just finished getting my G.E.D., was planning on going to collage but nothing was set in stone yet. So I decided to go with my parents to try out living in another country for a while and maybe see if I could meet someone while I was down there.

It just so happens that I did meet someone and it started getting real serious, when myself and my family found out that we had to move back to Canada for a number of reasons. But I was not planning on leaving without my new girlfriend and well after some long talks with each other and my folks, I actually asked her to marry me, thinking that with her being married to me that she would not have any issues getting into Canada and living with me. I didn't just do this because of that, I actually did want to marry her, because I love being around her and love her company and she made being in a different country not as scary or missunderstanding as it can be most of the time.

Myself and my parents thought that because she was married to me, that she would not require to have a visa just to come and visit Canada for a little while, as this was sort of all done in a rush because we had to get back quickly. So we did not really look into all of it correctly and well a few days before we where set to fly back to Canada. My mum called the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala and asked if my new wife would need a travel visa just to come and visit for a few weeks or months and well sadly we where told yes. So I had to sadly leave my new wife in Belize, while I traveled back to Canada.

So basically I am just wondering if anyone on this forum can help explain to me if this is true and why it is true, because I have spent countless hours on the internet looking for the reasoning and have not found any. Any help would be very very greatful.

Thank you

Ahuch
 
Yes, it is true. This is a list from the CIC website of the countries whose nationals need a visa to enter Canada:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/visas.asp

The reason is the gov't believes people from these countries may not leave Canada. If allowed in, they may decide to stay as illegal immigrants. The gov't wants some assurance that people who claim to be just visiting Canada will in fact leave. So the citizens of these countries can still come visit Canada, they just have to prove first that they will leave once their visa expires.

Because you married her, it makes it more difficult for her to get a temporary visa - the gov't will believe that since her husband lives in Canada, she actually does not want to visit - she wants to stay. To get a temporary visiting visa, she will have to show proof of ties to her homeland: money in the bank, a lease/mortgage/house deed, a letter from her boss giving her time off work and saying she is expected back, proof of enrollment in school that starts after her date of return, a child left behind, etc. Anything to show she will go back to Belize.

Because you are married, however, you can sponsor her to immigrate to Canada as your spouse.
 
Yeah thats what I thought to, I'm working on the sponsorship papers, is there anything that the websites do not tell me I will need because I dont want to screw anything up.

Thanks
 
Look at Leon's first post in the Family Class Sponsorship forum. It explains the forms well.