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Thank you so much! So, to be clear, after the inland application is submitted, with OWP app, she would be on implied status? And therefore legal? (Provided, as you say, the application is complete). Is there typically a maximum number of extensions they’ll approve? And maximum length? For...

I know it’s been a long while since this was posted (and I sure hope you’re happily married Canadians now!) but I’m wondering what happens to legal status in Canada once we apply for spousal sponsorship via common law? If we extend the visitor visa to obtain common law status, and my partner...

Similar boat here as well. But my question is, once you've extended your visitor visa to reach common law status, and then apply for the OWP, need you apply for yet another extension, since there will already be two six-month periods used at the time of applying for Common Law sponsorship? I'm...

Great! Thanks so much! I guess at that point though she’d be applying for PR as common law and because she’d already have been in Canada for 12 months would then have to return to the US while it’s being processed?

Perhaps this is a dumb question, but I (Canadian) would like to eventually sponsor my American partner as common-law. We have been together for a year and she is coming on a tourist visa next month but my question is, how can we obtain common law status (12 month cohabitation) if she is only...