Hi, I'm wondering if someone could help me. I am a Canadian citizen soon to get married to a Palestinian man born and raised in Saudi Arabia. We have a wonderful relationship that has grown over time from first my Arabic teacher who I met through a mutual Muslim sister who I trust, this grew into good friendship of speaking daily to each other for hours on email and Skype, and want to marry. We have decided to do telephone marriage first for a few reasons.
First, if I decide to travel to Saudi Arabia so we can meet in person I will need to be married to him since I am a Muslim revert and I do not have a male family member who can travel with me, but we are hoping instead he will be able to come here first for his vacation time in January 2014. We explored options for him to come here on a visitor's visa to meet and to marry here but realized this may be very difficult as they may deny him believing he will not return to Saudi Arabia after his visit.
Once we are married I will be applying to bring him here on a spousal sponsorship for his permanent residence. We plan on him staying in Saudi Arabia at the company he has worked at for 4 years until his PR is approved. Then I will fly to Saudi Arabia to visit him when I am able for a month visit and then return home to Canada. He would also like to be able to visit Canada during holidays and his vacation.
I called Canadian Immigration and spoke with an officer. I was told if we get married he will not be allowed to apply to visit Canada to see me on his vacations while he is waiting for his PR to be processed. I find this strange since we will be married and need to also show proof this is a genuine marriage through photographs, time spent together, etc and cannot do this unless we have the opportunity to spend person to person time together.
My question is, is this true that he will be denied any visits to Canada if we are married and he is waiting for PR?
Thank you in advance for any information you can offer me.
First, if I decide to travel to Saudi Arabia so we can meet in person I will need to be married to him since I am a Muslim revert and I do not have a male family member who can travel with me, but we are hoping instead he will be able to come here first for his vacation time in January 2014. We explored options for him to come here on a visitor's visa to meet and to marry here but realized this may be very difficult as they may deny him believing he will not return to Saudi Arabia after his visit.
Once we are married I will be applying to bring him here on a spousal sponsorship for his permanent residence. We plan on him staying in Saudi Arabia at the company he has worked at for 4 years until his PR is approved. Then I will fly to Saudi Arabia to visit him when I am able for a month visit and then return home to Canada. He would also like to be able to visit Canada during holidays and his vacation.
I called Canadian Immigration and spoke with an officer. I was told if we get married he will not be allowed to apply to visit Canada to see me on his vacations while he is waiting for his PR to be processed. I find this strange since we will be married and need to also show proof this is a genuine marriage through photographs, time spent together, etc and cannot do this unless we have the opportunity to spend person to person time together.
My question is, is this true that he will be denied any visits to Canada if we are married and he is waiting for PR?
Thank you in advance for any information you can offer me.
