I'm not sure what the best plan would be here, so I'm just going to throw everything on the table and see what you guys think.
I'm an America born, he's Canada born. We met online a year ago, and he paid for me to move across the country and into a border town so we could meet each other. He's been financially supporting me since late February. I moved at the beginning of May.
We travel back and forth across the border to visit each other all the time. A couple times a month. We've had zero issues.
He finally makes enough to have his own apartment, so he moved out of his parents' house. I visited for a month and helped him move and clean up his old stuff. Didn't mean to stay that long but it happens, eh?
It's getting difficult to continually pay for my room, my groceries, his apartment, and his groceries. I worked for a while, but there was an incident while I was visiting for Thanksgiving in October that put a "No call, no show" on my record (even though I talked extensively with HR before I left and they said everything was covered) and it resulted in my immediate termination. I didn't make much anyways, and I spent 3-4 hours in transit combined every day just to get to said job, so I didn't have room to pick up a second job like originally planned. Alas, I couldn't pay for hardly anything by myself. Losing the job was no big deal at all.
He can continue to keep paying for my room and such, but it'd (naturally) be cheaper for me to live with him. However, we're young and don't want to get married so soon. It'd have a lot of negative impact on the family (not his immediate family. They love me and can't wait for me to move up there,) and being together only a year, it would sort of look like we only got married for immigration purposes, and we don't want that.
So, what is the best way to go about this?
My plan right now:
I'm going up for the holidays, but I'm coming back the 21st of January because I have an appointment at the sheriff's office to get fingerprints for use on my police documentations (for immigration.)
First question:
Will I be allowed to return to Canada that day, or will I be denied entry since I just crossed the border?
If I am allowed back across the border, I will have implied 6 month status if I don't get stamped. I've never been stamped.
I will apply for a 6 month visitor extension after that so we can have common law status. After that, I'll have my police documents in order and we'll be able to apply for PR. I'll be submitting an OWP request with that as well.
Do I need to apply for another extension stating that I plan to apply for PR and an OWP?
Should I hire someone to work on this case? It's an expense we'd like to avoid but if we have to, we will.
Doing an outland application is not feasible. I cannot live out here for over 2 years without enough education or skills to get an actual job. That would be insane.
I'm an America born, he's Canada born. We met online a year ago, and he paid for me to move across the country and into a border town so we could meet each other. He's been financially supporting me since late February. I moved at the beginning of May.
We travel back and forth across the border to visit each other all the time. A couple times a month. We've had zero issues.
He finally makes enough to have his own apartment, so he moved out of his parents' house. I visited for a month and helped him move and clean up his old stuff. Didn't mean to stay that long but it happens, eh?
It's getting difficult to continually pay for my room, my groceries, his apartment, and his groceries. I worked for a while, but there was an incident while I was visiting for Thanksgiving in October that put a "No call, no show" on my record (even though I talked extensively with HR before I left and they said everything was covered) and it resulted in my immediate termination. I didn't make much anyways, and I spent 3-4 hours in transit combined every day just to get to said job, so I didn't have room to pick up a second job like originally planned. Alas, I couldn't pay for hardly anything by myself. Losing the job was no big deal at all.
He can continue to keep paying for my room and such, but it'd (naturally) be cheaper for me to live with him. However, we're young and don't want to get married so soon. It'd have a lot of negative impact on the family (not his immediate family. They love me and can't wait for me to move up there,) and being together only a year, it would sort of look like we only got married for immigration purposes, and we don't want that.
So, what is the best way to go about this?
My plan right now:
I'm going up for the holidays, but I'm coming back the 21st of January because I have an appointment at the sheriff's office to get fingerprints for use on my police documentations (for immigration.)
First question:
Will I be allowed to return to Canada that day, or will I be denied entry since I just crossed the border?
If I am allowed back across the border, I will have implied 6 month status if I don't get stamped. I've never been stamped.
I will apply for a 6 month visitor extension after that so we can have common law status. After that, I'll have my police documents in order and we'll be able to apply for PR. I'll be submitting an OWP request with that as well.
Do I need to apply for another extension stating that I plan to apply for PR and an OWP?
Should I hire someone to work on this case? It's an expense we'd like to avoid but if we have to, we will.
Doing an outland application is not feasible. I cannot live out here for over 2 years without enough education or skills to get an actual job. That would be insane.