So I just discovered that the Berlin office was shut down, and that all our applications will be rerouted through Vienna. Now, we hadn't planned on being especially lucky, but we've booked flights (with cancellation and rebooking insurance, of course!) and were all set to move to Canada a few months after the average would have suggested an approval from Berlin. Now, however, with the risk of delays (and I don't know the situation, but I can only assume that consolidating two offices will cause significant delays), we run the risk of not having been approved by the time we were ready to leave.
Conveniently, that would put us out of a home (our student housing appartment is on a per-semester contract that must be renewed THIS WEEK, and if renewed, will apply until April 2013) without jobs (my girlfriend's field is extremely competitive here but much less so in Canada; my current job is only possible if I am a student, which I won't be anymore in the fall). We can of course find new ones, but our student housing is extremely cheap and safe compared to what we'll find in the wild, and finding new jobs, particularly for my girlfriend in the field she's trained in, will be a tiresome process.
So my question is this: Is it an option to simply move to Canada anyway, on a visitor's visa, and extend that if necessary until we are approved (or, gods forbid, refused)? We could provide her parents' address as a "home address" (though they live in Switzerland, rather than Germany - is that a problem?) and we do have return tickets. We have doors open for money and housing in Canada, that's not an issue (well, of course, visitor's can't work legally, but at least I can, and she has the option of an unpaid internship, which should fly, right?).
I'm not saying we absolutely want to do so, but I want to know if that's an option, or if there are predictable complications with going that route. Any advice?
Conveniently, that would put us out of a home (our student housing appartment is on a per-semester contract that must be renewed THIS WEEK, and if renewed, will apply until April 2013) without jobs (my girlfriend's field is extremely competitive here but much less so in Canada; my current job is only possible if I am a student, which I won't be anymore in the fall). We can of course find new ones, but our student housing is extremely cheap and safe compared to what we'll find in the wild, and finding new jobs, particularly for my girlfriend in the field she's trained in, will be a tiresome process.
So my question is this: Is it an option to simply move to Canada anyway, on a visitor's visa, and extend that if necessary until we are approved (or, gods forbid, refused)? We could provide her parents' address as a "home address" (though they live in Switzerland, rather than Germany - is that a problem?) and we do have return tickets. We have doors open for money and housing in Canada, that's not an issue (well, of course, visitor's can't work legally, but at least I can, and she has the option of an unpaid internship, which should fly, right?).
I'm not saying we absolutely want to do so, but I want to know if that's an option, or if there are predictable complications with going that route. Any advice?
