metaphys said:
You calling me immature? Some of you need to look at yourself in the mirror and take a look at your judgemental and accusatory replies. Some of you need to get off your high horses and accept that everyone has the right to ask a simple question without getting accused of killing babies or trolling.
No I'm not a troll, I legitimately had this random girl jokingly propose that we get married in order to extend our ability to travel in each other's zones, and while I never gave any real consideration to the thought of casually getting married for this reason, I was curious as to whether this would work and I wanted to learn why it wouldn't work which is when I decided to give this forum a chance to clarify things for me.. which was a mistake judging by some of your overreactions and borderline threats. Man the internet is such a nasty place and it isn't because of people like me oh no, it's because of people like some of you that let their emotions get the best of them and have nasty tempers to begin and always assume the worse out of everyone.
Oh and to those who say get a work-vacation permit instead because they are "so easy" to get well NO they are not easy if you're above the age of 30 or 35 depending on countries. If you're over the age of 35 then getting anything but a *censored word*ty 90 day tourist visa is very hard even if you have no intention on working abroad and just want to stay there for longer than 90 days.
My own fault for not travelling more when I was younger and had no money eh? Oh well better late then never. I should have just used google instead and saved myself some stupid replies from people who claim to know (and wrongly so) things about me based on a post I made.
You're right about it being a bad idea to spend time talking to kids.. the problem is your age doesn't qualify you as a non-kid anymore, I seriously can't believe the level of irony at some of your commenters patting each other's backs at trying to belittle me and judge me for asking a question and then trying to question my own maturity or intelligence.
Assuming you aren't a troll, so what if you are too old for a working holiday, the barriers to your travel are far less daunting than trying to get married and skirt the system to somehow help you. Working while travelling sucks anyways. You still haven't said how getting married to a Croatian would help you travel? If you are daunted by getting a visa to a country the process for Canada PR is much, much more difficult.
The people on this board are mad because either you are trolling us, or you are really ignorant of the system and the suffering we all go through to get our spouses into Canada. It's not easy and it costs much time and money, it's not to be taken lightly. Abuse of the system is not something that is welcome on this forum.
You want to get married then fake hundreds of photos and papers and get medical checkups and police certificates then live together for years so that you can travel easier? That is just ridiculous. If it helps you travel go become a Croatian instead, maybe it's easier and you get EU benefits
Edit: Ok you answered my question, thank you. You are on the spousal sponsorship board, of course I would think you are talking about PR status. Getting married doesn't really do anything, she would still be subject to the same visa rules regardless. Take a look at that eTA option for her.
If getting married helps you in Croatia somehow, go for it. It won't help you much in Canada without the PR, which is a waste of time for you for the reasons I mentioned.
I have no ideals about marriage whatsoever, cultures have arranged marriages all the time, but my disbelief is that you would want to go through the process for just travelling. There are far easier ways to get into Canada than getting married and going through PR.
