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    Help Please! Conjugal Relationship (Cdn citizen and South African Citizen)

    As most people in this forum suggest, I think we are going to go with the Spousal visa (get married in the late summer) and apply after we have a certificate of marriage. How would the visitor visas "look" to an IO processing a spousal application if we previously stated our relation to each...
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    Help Please! Conjugal Relationship (Cdn citizen and South African Citizen)

    Nicely put! See, this is why forums are good, because I'm so involved in our situation that I just didn't see it that way even though now it has been pointed out to me, it's so very obvious!!
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    Help Please! Conjugal Relationship (Cdn citizen and South African Citizen)

    Say if in the Summer/09 while he is in Canada (hopefully) we have a civil marriage at city hall (we reside in Ontario which I've read takes 3 months to even get the marriage certificate which would be submitted with the PR application, but we also plan on flying to Saskatchwan, Alberta and BC to...
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    Help Please! Conjugal Relationship (Cdn citizen and South African Citizen)

    Hello Mrs. BWL, Thank you for the OP2 link, I already had it in my pile of stuff so you brought it to the surface and I read those parts very carefully! And thank you also for the roadtocanada.com, I've been reading it all evening and can't pull myself away! It seems as if, for our...
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    Help Please! Conjugal Relationship (Cdn citizen and South African Citizen)

    I'm even more confused about conjugual relationship or commonlaw! Commonlaw clearly states that we have to live with each other for 1 year, which we cannot do. If CIC would let him in to Canada he would live here for a year happily, but he can't even do that under a visitor visa (because of the...
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    Help Please! Conjugal Relationship (Cdn citizen and South African Citizen)

    Thanks for your help! I am a little confused with the whole definition of "Conjugal Relationship", this is what I have found on CIC's website: You can sponsor a person as your common-law partner if that person is of the opposite or same sex, you and that other person have cohabited in a...
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    Help Please! Conjugal Relationship (Cdn citizen and South African Citizen)

    I seriously need some help/adivce/input from people who know the ins and outs of CIC. I am looking for advice on deciding whether to apply inland or outland, questions about open work permits, when to do an outland medical and declaring our relationship on recent visitor application as "friend"...