Hi,
Myself and my girlfriend just got engaged and are planning to get married soon. I intend to sponsor her as a spouse to come to Canada and start a family. I am a Canadian citizen and she is not. However, she does have a visitor visa for about another 3 years and have stayed with me in Canada for 2 months last summer / autumn. We are now thinking of all which needs to be done and in which sequence. One of the questions that came up is what is the best location to get married. Since we are planning to live in Canada, we thought that it makes sense to register the marriage in Canada, so that there is potentially less need for translations and notarial certifications, and Immigration Canada will receive a genuine Canadian marriage certificate with the sponsorship application. Here is the full list of questions:
Any insights / guidance would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Myself and my girlfriend just got engaged and are planning to get married soon. I intend to sponsor her as a spouse to come to Canada and start a family. I am a Canadian citizen and she is not. However, she does have a visitor visa for about another 3 years and have stayed with me in Canada for 2 months last summer / autumn. We are now thinking of all which needs to be done and in which sequence. One of the questions that came up is what is the best location to get married. Since we are planning to live in Canada, we thought that it makes sense to register the marriage in Canada, so that there is potentially less need for translations and notarial certifications, and Immigration Canada will receive a genuine Canadian marriage certificate with the sponsorship application. Here is the full list of questions:
- What are the pros and cons of registering a marriage in Canada vs within my fiancee's country?
- We want to register the marriage before having an official celebration, which we are planning for the summer. Would that be an issue from the point of view of proving the genuineness of the relationship? Since there will be no wedding photos yet when applying for sponsorship (as soon as possible after getting married)?
- Would getting married in Canada have any effect on my fiancee's visitor visa? And for that matter, would her having a visitor visa be considered undesirable from sponsorship application point of view?
- If we get married in Canada and she goes back to her current home country, would outland sponsorship application be an issue? From what I understand, outland application is faster, but I am just not sure whether a Canadian marriage certificate would be undesirable for outland applications, e.g. it makes more sense to have foreign marriage certificate for outland applications from Canada Immigrations point of view?
Any insights / guidance would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.