American fiancee sponsorship

[juneauromeo16]

So, I live in the Vancouver area and my fiancee is fairly close to the border in the US, so our situation has been him coming up to visit me every weekend while he lives and works in the States. We have a date set to get married in Alaska this coming July and we are now looking into which method of sponsorship would be best for our circumstances so that I can bring him up into Canada.

It is important to us that he is able to work while the application is being processed so we have been mainly considering the Outland method, but we are concerned that this will affect his ability to cross the border to visit every week. Can/will the border folks refuse him entry if he has an application for immigration in the works? If we end up going this route, how can we limit this risk?

Alternatively, I just read about the SLCPC class work visa option, which sounds fantastic as he'd be able to work up here while living with me(!!) but it looks like it would only be an option for an Inland application? What are the implications of this in our situation? I don't think we would be willing to have him come here as a visitor (quitting his job, etc) then applying Inland with the possibility of lengthy complications or refusal. If he wouldn't be able to work immediately after crossing the border, we'd rather keep with our current "weekends only" thing.

Any and all advice would be much appreciated, and thanks in advance!

 

[MilesAway]

Americans really should not apply inland. Typical US applications are processed quickly, whereas inland takes forever. If you apply outland and he keeps his job in the US, you shouldn't have any issues with him visiting on week-ends. Most US applicants on here that applied outland were able to visit, and having a PR application in the system was helpful, since it shows that you know the rules and are following them.

CBSA can refuse entry to anyone really, other than PRs and citizens. The key is to act like a visitor and show ties to your home country. If he comes up for the week-end with belongings for a week-end (6 suitcases or a U-Haul is really not visitor behaviour) and a job back home, there shouldn't be a problem.

 

[juneauromeo16]

This is exactly the answer we were looking for, thank you very much!