Hi everyone,
Ok so my partner and I need some advice. She is a born Canadian citizen and we have been together in a relationship since December 12th 2010, living together for the duration in a common-law relationship.
We lived in a England for a year but due to a combination of work and family we decided to move back to British Columbia to live closer to her family.
I'm a British citizen but lack Canadian citizenship, so we had intended for her to sponsor me under the common-law section of the family class. However now we're not sure whether we need to apply inland or Outland as we are currently living together with her family on Vancouver island. We Can supply plenty of evidence for the relationship; pictures, statements from friends/family, chat logs over several years, letters proving same address.
We're also concerned about work for me because whilst she's currently employed with Home Depot and her family is keen to support us in any way they can, the sooner I can start applying for places the better. Several places have already said they'd be willing to hire me IF I already had a visa but none seem prepared to help me gain one unfortunately.
In terms of character history I was formerly a member of the Territorial Army before we came over here, was working full time and have no criminal record or black marks against my name, my references will attest to this. I'm eduacated to university level (3 year bachelor of arts in film) with 16 years of eduacation total. I'm not sure if any of this will even affect the outcome but thought it worth mentioning.
Obviously we've made a right pigs ear of it already as I've now been in the country since March 1st, completely my own fault as We came on the premise that a camp job would be available for me, but it fell through when we got here.
Any and all advice we can get would be helpful as it seems the more we information we all read, the less we can actually garner. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Nick
Ok so my partner and I need some advice. She is a born Canadian citizen and we have been together in a relationship since December 12th 2010, living together for the duration in a common-law relationship.
We lived in a England for a year but due to a combination of work and family we decided to move back to British Columbia to live closer to her family.
I'm a British citizen but lack Canadian citizenship, so we had intended for her to sponsor me under the common-law section of the family class. However now we're not sure whether we need to apply inland or Outland as we are currently living together with her family on Vancouver island. We Can supply plenty of evidence for the relationship; pictures, statements from friends/family, chat logs over several years, letters proving same address.
We're also concerned about work for me because whilst she's currently employed with Home Depot and her family is keen to support us in any way they can, the sooner I can start applying for places the better. Several places have already said they'd be willing to hire me IF I already had a visa but none seem prepared to help me gain one unfortunately.
In terms of character history I was formerly a member of the Territorial Army before we came over here, was working full time and have no criminal record or black marks against my name, my references will attest to this. I'm eduacated to university level (3 year bachelor of arts in film) with 16 years of eduacation total. I'm not sure if any of this will even affect the outcome but thought it worth mentioning.
Obviously we've made a right pigs ear of it already as I've now been in the country since March 1st, completely my own fault as We came on the premise that a camp job would be available for me, but it fell through when we got here.
Any and all advice we can get would be helpful as it seems the more we information we all read, the less we can actually garner. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Nick
