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Haven't been around lately, but thanks everyone for the replies and support. I'll update you guys on the status of how things go!

I've had a similar problem with my girlfriend - though we've spent about 7 months together over the past year or so, we were gonna get married, then didn't, and after more serious thinking, will plan to marry for real soon. Obviously, the easy thing is to get married so he can be sponsored, but...

I'm not concerned of doing the application myself, I guess I just wanted some advice of which route is probably more effective, but in general the immigration consultant industry seems very sketchy to me. I've known my gf for 8 years - we met at university, we've "dated" for 1 year you can say...

This is very interesting, thanks for for the info. I got scared reading about the stories of long processing times from the HK office, but then again there don't seem to be that many actual HK residents applying for spousal sponsorship, many are from the mainland which are scrutinized more...

This is kind of related to what I had posted earlier, just wondering if anyone has some advice. http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/sponsor-potential-wife-from-hong-kong-t68539.0.html I intend to marry my girlfriend from Hong Kong so that I can sponsor her to Canada...

In a way this kind of is a marriage of convenience, we wouldn't have married so early otherwise, but we do have a serious relationship. Hence I'm a bit concerned about it. We do have pictures on trips together, and even some with family and friends over the past half year we dated. I've been...

I really hope it's not gonna be a nightmare. We're not gonna have any banquet or anything yet so I really hope there won't be major red flags. I don't have money to do that stuff, let alone even buy a home yet. We just wanna be together. But we do have the same education level, went to the...

Oh yeah as for the comment about why mainland couples give birth in Hong Kong. As Chinese citizens, if they give birth to a child in China the child will be a Chinese citizen, but if they do so in Hong Kong, it would also give them right of abode (like citizenship) in Hong Kong, which is a more...

Interesting discussion here so far. I think it is understandable that mainland applications are scrutinized more seriously because despite obvious economic growth, the vast majority of Chinese are still very poor. It's unfortunate that legitimate applications get held up. The processing time...

I've already read the manual earlier on. Is this something common that applicants do? Or do many people go into the process blindly? Thank you all for the info, I'm more of looking for personal experiences that can help out. I'm also an immigration nerd, so I like learning the process of how...

We do have many pics together with each other and some friends, and lots of chat logs. I guess you can say we had an unofficial long distance relationship for 2 years before we started to "date". I have my boarding passes from my visit to Hong Kong to visit her earlier. What kind of evidence...

Congrats! I've been seeing your posts for the last few months, it's nice to know that it worked out!

Based on what I said, does it seem like there would be major red flags? I mean, if she really wanted to live in Canada, she would not have left in the first place when she didn't have to, and would've got PR. She mainly came back for me this time.

She has about 3 months left, and has no job, she had attempted to find a job on her "return" so to speak, that didn't work out. It's a long story, but it is what it is now. I believe the risk is if you do an inland application, you probably should not leave Canada or you can run into...

That's what I had thought of, but it takes almost as long as in Buffalo. Plus she'd need a US visa to go to a potential interview, which I think would add a layer of complexity. She had left during her work permit (to go back to HK for a year) and came back when there was less than a year...

This is what I was leaning towards. But I've just read a lot of nightmare stories about the consulate in HK. Do they consider HK permanent residents different than mainlanders (some of which also apply in HK) in applications? She holds HKSAR and BNO passports.

Hi all, I've been lurking here for the past couple of months. I'm thinking of marrying my girlfriend who is from Hong Kong. She's currently here in Canada on an post grad open work permit that will expire soon. We're both 24 years of age, and have similar background and speak the same...