My fiance and I are getting married in 33 days. He is an American Citizen, and came to Canada to visit with me in July 2018 (we have been in a long distance relationship since 2016). During this trip, I became pregnant, and as such he ended up staying here longer than planned to attend appointments, etc.
He returned to the states in December before his six months were up, and returned to Canada this past weekend (he was gone for a month). When he came back to Canada, he was grilled pretty hard by Boarder Agents and warned that if he is a visitor, he must be spending more time in the United States than in Canada. We are hoping he can stay here for majority of the time until the baby is born in June, and have FULL intention of applying for his Permanent Residency as soon as we are married on February 14.
I have a few questions:
1. Is there any point, at this time, of applying for an extension to his visitor visa, if we we plan to apply for his Permanent Residency next month, long before his standard six-month visitor visa expires?
2. We want to apply Inland under the family class sponsorship (spousal) so he can stay here with me and the baby. When we are applying for permanent residency, should we state that we are living together, or not? He is technically here as a visitor. He is not working, not paying bills, etc, and has a place to live in Houston. We would like to formally live together, but have been holding off on claiming this until his permanent residency status is declared, as we thought it was against the rules for him to "live" here until he is granted PR or his application is underway. On his permanent residency application, can we say that we are living together without repercussions from the boarder agents? If we say that we are not living together, is he automatically placed in the Outland stream?
We are totally confused and really want to stay together before, and after, the baby is born. We thought we were okay if he didn't overstay six months and made trips back to the States for a month or so at a time... but it looks like because he has been spending more time in Canada recently, we have been flagged. Will we be okay if we file for PR? How do we do this Inland if we can't live together because he can't stay here for more than six months at a time? HELP!
He returned to the states in December before his six months were up, and returned to Canada this past weekend (he was gone for a month). When he came back to Canada, he was grilled pretty hard by Boarder Agents and warned that if he is a visitor, he must be spending more time in the United States than in Canada. We are hoping he can stay here for majority of the time until the baby is born in June, and have FULL intention of applying for his Permanent Residency as soon as we are married on February 14.
I have a few questions:
1. Is there any point, at this time, of applying for an extension to his visitor visa, if we we plan to apply for his Permanent Residency next month, long before his standard six-month visitor visa expires?
2. We want to apply Inland under the family class sponsorship (spousal) so he can stay here with me and the baby. When we are applying for permanent residency, should we state that we are living together, or not? He is technically here as a visitor. He is not working, not paying bills, etc, and has a place to live in Houston. We would like to formally live together, but have been holding off on claiming this until his permanent residency status is declared, as we thought it was against the rules for him to "live" here until he is granted PR or his application is underway. On his permanent residency application, can we say that we are living together without repercussions from the boarder agents? If we say that we are not living together, is he automatically placed in the Outland stream?
We are totally confused and really want to stay together before, and after, the baby is born. We thought we were okay if he didn't overstay six months and made trips back to the States for a month or so at a time... but it looks like because he has been spending more time in Canada recently, we have been flagged. Will we be okay if we file for PR? How do we do this Inland if we can't live together because he can't stay here for more than six months at a time? HELP!
