Common Law Sponsorship
- Thread starter trikake
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If you can't find the answer on the CIC website, you can have your spouse call them and ask. To qualify for common law, you need to have lived together for at least 12 months but if you are not living together anymore as I assume you are not since you are residing outside Canada and spouse must be living inside Canada to be able to apply for citizenship, I do not know how much time apart would be considered not to be common law anymore. If you get married, you have no problems.
You can do sponsorship without using a visit visa if you wait where you are until sponsorship has already gone through.
You can do sponsorship without using a visit visa if you wait where you are until sponsorship has already gone through.
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If I understand you correctly, you have two children with someone who is a PR of Canada, but who has applied for citizenship? And you want to live together in Canada as a family?
If so, your partner needs to apply to sponsor you and the children (unless they were born in Canada) to be sponsored for permanent residence in Canada. You're eligible to be sponsored only if you're married, or if you have lived together in a common-law partnership for at least one year. If your partner is still only a PR of Canada, s/he has to be residing IN Canada in order to be eligible to sponsor you. Having applied for citizenship does not make him/her eligible to sponsor you while living abroad.
Whether or not you can be in Canada during processing of the PR ap depends a lot on whether you are from a country that requires a visitor visa to come to Canada. If you are, it's not likely you will be admitted to Canada until after your permanent status is secured . . . regardless of the fact that you have children together.
If so, your partner needs to apply to sponsor you and the children (unless they were born in Canada) to be sponsored for permanent residence in Canada. You're eligible to be sponsored only if you're married, or if you have lived together in a common-law partnership for at least one year. If your partner is still only a PR of Canada, s/he has to be residing IN Canada in order to be eligible to sponsor you. Having applied for citizenship does not make him/her eligible to sponsor you while living abroad.
Whether or not you can be in Canada during processing of the PR ap depends a lot on whether you are from a country that requires a visitor visa to come to Canada. If you are, it's not likely you will be admitted to Canada until after your permanent status is secured . . . regardless of the fact that you have children together.