Marrying my LDR boyfriend/fiance

[DizzySnowFire]

Soo...I've been talking to this one person on another site I'm a part of and she was in the same situation as I am with her now husband. She directed to this site in order to get help with the whole sponsorship and marriage to my fiancé/boyfriend. We have been together for 2 years in September and have known each other for 7 years in July. We both want to spend the rest of our lives together that is one thing for sure and he wants to immigrate to where I'm in which is in Ontario. The person has told me some things about how I should do this but told me I should seek more advice from this forum like on the process of everything and how it would go.
How should I or where should I start?

 

[Christoph100]

Hi, Welcome for one thing you could start here..... http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/index.asp

You can also start gathering evidence of your relationship everything from the very start up to the present time. Photos, letters, emails, chats, phone call records, airline boarding passes, or other transportation receipts on the dates of travel to visit one another. Include pictures of being with each others family too.

I would recommend to download the actual forms and practice filling them out, this way when you are ready you will not have a difficult time completing them. When you are finally ready you will need to download all the forms again as CIC (Citizenship and Immigration) likes to change the forms quite often.
Of course marriage will be required unless you have been living together for 12mths straight through.

Where is your fiance from?

Chris

 

[DizzySnowFire]

My fiancé is from the U.S.

 

[surleplateau]

Read the US outland applicants' thread

Assuming that you and your partner have a straightforward case with no criminal record, Outland sponsorship is the quicker way to go for US-Canada. Check the links to the timelines in the US thread. Some people get their PR as fast as 6 months, others between 8 to 10 months. Outland doesn't give the OWP (open work permit) or healthcare in Canada, but Outland is generally much faster that people go that way and just visit Canada on visitor status (with the option to extend his stay for much longer) and buy private insurance. Or just stay in the US and visit Canada now and then. Both are valid.

There's been some issues with the FBI police clearance check (background check) being slow/delayed, and some issues with the FBI "channellers" -- 3rd-party companies who are supposed to be faster with results than directly with the FBI but not always accepted by CIC. So keep that in mind. I did mine with the FBI directly and just dealt with the slow response, because CIC can't seem to make up their minds about channellers.

I suggest you browse through the US-related threads and post your questions there, because other US-Canada folks will benefit from having it all in 1 or 2 threads.

 

[DizzySnowFire]

Question: My boyfriend/fiancé is 100% Native would that effect anything?

 

[Ponga]

Question: My boyfriend/fiancé is 100% Native would that effect anything?

It would if he was registered to a Band in Canada:

From section 10.3 - Enf04 manual:

American Indians not registered in Canada

It is the position of both the Canadian and U.S. governments that the authorization of entry of
non-citizen North American Indians is governed solely by immigration legislation and not by the
Jay Treaty. The rules governing the entry of American Indians in to Canada differ from those
governing access to the United States by Canadian Indians.

Under the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act, Canadian Indians who can demonstrate that they
have “50% or more Indian blood,” by presentation of their band registration card, are entitled to
permanent resident status in the United States. As a result, Canadian Indians who arrive at U.S.
ports of entry and state that they intend to work in the United States are instructed by United States Customs and Border Protection officials to apply for permanent resident status on the spot.
The applicants are immediately issued temporary residency cards and are entitled to work in the
United States without work permits.

Under Canadian immigration law, however, North American Indians are only accorded the right to
enter Canada if they are registered on the Canadian Band Lists. An American Indian can only
obtain registered band status if they can establish that their mother or father was a member of a
Canadian band. Therefore, American Indians coming to Canada to work or study require work or
study permits. Virtually all members of the Indian nations whose traditional lands straddle the border are entitled to be registered under the Indian Act, and once they have exercised this option, they may enter
Canada by right under A19(1).

Some American Indians have difficulty accepting that Canadian law requires them to be registered formally as members of a Canadian Indian band before they can legally work in Canada. BSOs should deal tactfully with cases of this nature.