Inviting girlfriend to have her citizenship is my ultimate goal

[tysonris]

Hi.
I want to invite my girlfriend to Canada and want some insights from this forum on the best course of action I should take.

I am a Canadian citizen and my girlfriend has citizenship from Korea.
We met 3 years ago in Korea and this year she had chance to visit Toronto.
Luckily, she really liked this place and wants to settle down in Canada with me.

We are not married couple yet but the plan is to have marriage in Korea next year.
I heard there are two types of application: inland and outland.
Because she wants to settle down as soon as possible, meaning find a suitable work and get accustomed to lifestyle here, I am thinking inland application is more right for us. (able to receive work permit sooner than outland application)

I want to ask for a guideline as to how I go about executing this plan in a correct way.
All of your opinions are really important as I am just beginning to research this matter.

Thank you for your input and I apologize for very vague, general question.

 

[kcward7]

Hi.
I want to invite my girlfriend to Canada and want some insights from this forum on the best course of action I should take.

I am a Canadian citizen and my girlfriend has citizenship from Korea.
We met 3 years ago in Korea and this year she had chance to visit Toronto.
Luckily, she really liked this place and wants to settle down in Canada with me.

We are not married couple yet but the plan is to have marriage in Korea next year.
I heard there are two types of application: inland and outland.
Because she wants to settle down as soon as possible, meaning find a suitable work and get accustomed to lifestyle here, I am thinking inland application is more right for us. (able to receive work permit sooner than outland application)

I want to ask for a guideline as to how I go about executing this plan in a correct way.
All of your opinions are really important as I am just beginning to research this matter.

Thank you for your input and I apologize for very vague, general question.

You need to either live together for 12 consecutive months to apply as common law or be married, not sure if that's information you already know. You cannot apply until you've either lived together for a full year or are married.

 

[Rob_TO]

Yep you must be married or legally common-law (having lived together 12 consecutive months) to even begin an application to sponsor her for PR.

After you get married in Korea, she can certainly come to Canada as a visitor and when here could submit an inland app with Open work permit, and basically live here until she gets PR status.

 

[tysonris]

Thanks for the replies.

I like to ask for your input in terms of going with inland app vs outland app in the case of...

1) how fast can she acquire PR status comparing these two methods - my future spouse plans to study at Canadian college to be able to work in her profession(nurse) and getting the PR saves a lot of tuition money ;-)
2) Is OWP renewable until she gets PR status?

Of course all of these have to be decided after we sign the marriage paper, I just want to prepare what's ahead of us.

Thanks very much!

 

[csturner92]

If everything goes well she will get PR within 12 months, regardless of application type.

However I strongly recommend applying Inland so she can get a OWP.

Yes, the OWP is renewable.

 

[Rob_TO]

Thanks for the replies.

I like to ask for your input in terms of going with inland app vs outland app in the case of...

1) how fast can she acquire PR status comparing these two methods - my future spouse plans to study at Canadian college to be able to work in her profession(nurse) and getting the PR saves a lot of tuition money ;-)
2) Is OWP renewable until she gets PR status?

Of course all of these have to be decided after we sign the marriage paper, I just want to prepare what's ahead of us.

Thanks very much!

12 months is the suggested target time for outland apps, but usually an outland app should be finished quicker than this, and in general quicker than an inland app. However there is zero way to guarantee this, the best thing to do is closer to when you are ready to apply check the thread here for the outland visa office she would be going through to see what people's recent times are. For Koreans, I believe it's still Manila that would process outland apps.

Of course there's no OWP with an outland app, so the risk is she would need to stay in Canada as a visitor only and unable to work.