So here is the situation. I have lived in Alberta my whole life and my partner, who I met online, lives in Ohio. We have only met one time for 2 weeks but we want to spend the rest of our lives together and he wants to move to Alberta permanently.
I have only be able to find the option of him moving here on a visitor visa and getting it extended to make it a full year so we can claim common-law but this is just not feasible. I am a full time student and I was laid off from my part time job. I can barely support myself so there is no way I could support him too for a year to get common-law. Conjugal seemed like a possibility but after looking into it I am not convinced that it would cover our situation. We are very much in love and due to financial reasons are unable to make common-law happen so I am hoping that maybe there is a way to work around this so we can make this happen.
There is always the idea of marriage, and I do want to marry him some day for sure! But I would feel like it is an insult to our love to use marriage as a tool for immigration rather than waiting for the right moment in our lives to make it a special event.
If anyone has any ideas to make this as painless as possible I would be very grateful. Is there any sort of a Government or Professional place I can go to where they specialize in this and could help me out with alternatives? Any info would be very helpful as I really know nothing about how immigration works other than what I have been reading and it is all very confusing!
I have only be able to find the option of him moving here on a visitor visa and getting it extended to make it a full year so we can claim common-law but this is just not feasible. I am a full time student and I was laid off from my part time job. I can barely support myself so there is no way I could support him too for a year to get common-law. Conjugal seemed like a possibility but after looking into it I am not convinced that it would cover our situation. We are very much in love and due to financial reasons are unable to make common-law happen so I am hoping that maybe there is a way to work around this so we can make this happen.
There is always the idea of marriage, and I do want to marry him some day for sure! But I would feel like it is an insult to our love to use marriage as a tool for immigration rather than waiting for the right moment in our lives to make it a special event.
If anyone has any ideas to make this as painless as possible I would be very grateful. Is there any sort of a Government or Professional place I can go to where they specialize in this and could help me out with alternatives? Any info would be very helpful as I really know nothing about how immigration works other than what I have been reading and it is all very confusing!
