Greetings!
This is my first post here, and I suspect the beginning of many.
A bit of background information:
My fiance is a Portuguese citizen living in Portugal, I am Canadian living in Canada. We have been together since Feb. 2008 (almost 5 years) in an exclusive long distance relationship with regular visits (since 2009) as our work holidays allowed. It has been in our plans to be together since the first year, but as we were both parents of teenagers (his minor daughter lives solely with him - my then minor son lived with me), we felt it best to prepare our kids for adulthood first before embarking on our own life together. Although he and his ex legally share custody of his daughter, she has no input into the child's life, emotionally, financially or otherwise, and almost zero contact of any kind. Additionally, my daughter (my other child) had just started university with a baby I help look after and his daughter was still quite traumatized from her mother's abandonment. We didn't want to throw extra stress on our children, so we felt it best to wait to be together. We both have very strong feelings on moral obligations and responsibilities to our children, and despite wanting more than anything to be together no matter where it is, we feel our duty as parents is extremely important.
The original intention was that I move there. We both have folders full of links that we saved when we were investigating that process. I also took Portuguese language lessons so that I would be able to integrate more easily into society there and communicate more easily with his daughter, who speaks good English, but not great (he speaks very fluent English).
However, on both sides we have had life changes beyond our control that placed obstacles in the path of our original plan, and we have now decided that to be together we will need to live here instead and we can take holidays there instead.
My concern is that due to the current economic climate in Portugal (getting worse by the day), it may be seen as an economic move on his part, not an emotional one.
Questions:
Should I include screen shots of the folders (with dates showing) that have all the information we gathered when we planned for me to emigrate there as proof of our intention to be together? Or could this be somehow seen negatively?
We both have folders full of links and documents we saved while researching.
Can a minor child (16 years old) write a letter of support to prove genuineness of relationship?
My fiance's daughter adores me, and I adore her. We have a very close relationship despite the long distance.
If not, then is it the age of majority in Canada, or the country she lives in that determines whether her letter of support can be accepted?
This is my first post here, and I suspect the beginning of many.
A bit of background information:
My fiance is a Portuguese citizen living in Portugal, I am Canadian living in Canada. We have been together since Feb. 2008 (almost 5 years) in an exclusive long distance relationship with regular visits (since 2009) as our work holidays allowed. It has been in our plans to be together since the first year, but as we were both parents of teenagers (his minor daughter lives solely with him - my then minor son lived with me), we felt it best to prepare our kids for adulthood first before embarking on our own life together. Although he and his ex legally share custody of his daughter, she has no input into the child's life, emotionally, financially or otherwise, and almost zero contact of any kind. Additionally, my daughter (my other child) had just started university with a baby I help look after and his daughter was still quite traumatized from her mother's abandonment. We didn't want to throw extra stress on our children, so we felt it best to wait to be together. We both have very strong feelings on moral obligations and responsibilities to our children, and despite wanting more than anything to be together no matter where it is, we feel our duty as parents is extremely important.
The original intention was that I move there. We both have folders full of links that we saved when we were investigating that process. I also took Portuguese language lessons so that I would be able to integrate more easily into society there and communicate more easily with his daughter, who speaks good English, but not great (he speaks very fluent English).
However, on both sides we have had life changes beyond our control that placed obstacles in the path of our original plan, and we have now decided that to be together we will need to live here instead and we can take holidays there instead.
My concern is that due to the current economic climate in Portugal (getting worse by the day), it may be seen as an economic move on his part, not an emotional one.
Questions:
Should I include screen shots of the folders (with dates showing) that have all the information we gathered when we planned for me to emigrate there as proof of our intention to be together? Or could this be somehow seen negatively?
We both have folders full of links and documents we saved while researching.
Can a minor child (16 years old) write a letter of support to prove genuineness of relationship?
My fiance's daughter adores me, and I adore her. We have a very close relationship despite the long distance.
If not, then is it the age of majority in Canada, or the country she lives in that determines whether her letter of support can be accepted?
