getting married before of after landing

[Carlos1982]

Hi there,

Visa office has requested my passport for visa issuance. They sent a pdf with this warning:

"Do not submit
your passports
at this time if

you have married or divorced since our last correspondence
or
you intend to get married or divorced prior to your landing in Canada "


I have a girlfriend who I want to get married with. However, I am not sure if I should get married BEFORE or AFTER landing in Canada. If I get married before I have to inform VO about my new status and I am worried about how long it will take for them to request my passport again, and of course, my future wife's passport.

I have a couple of questions:

1. If I get married prior to my landing in Canada, how long will it take for them to request my passport again, and of course, my future wife's passport?

2. Would it be shorter time and more convenient to add my future wife now in my application? or is it more convenient to sponsor her after landing myself?


I know about the time to wait for sponsoring until her application is approved (its kind of hard to wait in my case 15 months in Colombia embassy). However, I need to be in Canada in June or July the latest to start at a school I want to study there, paying Permanent Resident rate of course (otherwise I will have to start in 2012). That's my concern, about whether or not I would make it with my future wife to June-July (if I get married and add her now).

Otherwise, I will land by myself and I will return to marry her and start right after that with the sponsoring process.


Please your opinions seniors or people with this kind of experience.

Thank you in advance.

 

[kenzie]

if you are living with her now then add her on the application as a common law partner as long as you have been together for a year and can have proof of it, i think i am right in what i say ^^ i think you need to be living together too for a year ?!?