I've been with my boyfriend for over 5 years who has moved to Canada to work. I didn't join him as I was in college. He will be getting his PR soon and plans to sponsor my son (not his I have full custody) and I to move to Canada with him. As we have never lived together due to a lack of housing and the high rent costs and personal circumstances, will it effect him applying for us through the conjugal visa? We plan to marry regardless and wondering what would be the best option for us for our application.
Boyfriend with PR sponsorship help!!
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If you're able to move to Canada you don't qualify for conjugal. You need to either establish common law or marry.
What's your point? OP also says they plan to move to Canada, and they've never lived together due to personal circumstances. Chances are extremely high given this information that they do not qualify for conjugal.
I was in college which was being paid for me as a government incentive for mature students who were unemployed prior. Due to this if I had married or moved in with my boyfriend I wouldn't not have been eligable for college or able to afford it myself. The housing market regardless of that is far too scares and exspensive for us to afford so we both remained at home. He left for Canada to work before I graduated so we never got the chance to live together.
But you were theoretically able to marry or move in together, right? - you chose not to. There was no legal or immigration barrier preventing you from doing this. Scarce and expensive housing is not an immigration or legal barrier. You don't qualify for conjugal.
You could have got married. I know many couples, who lived in each other's home with their parents after marriage until they can afford to have their own home.
He lived on the other side of the country after he graduated with his mother until he started working, which was Mon-fri all over the country (staying in hotels) while I was in college. We only seen each other on weekends really.
For the purposes of applying for PR through conjugal, IRCC won't care about these circumstances.
As I said above you either need to qualify for common law or marry.