Girlfriend wants to move to Canada - pls help!

[CMogensen]

Hey!
I fully understand where you are at. I’m Danish, and I came to Canada on a working holiday visa a few years ago and met my boyfriend. We were both 20 at that time and felt marriage was a bit early, (Our culture considered) but we were ready to marry if that’s what it would take to be together. I ended up staying in Canada as a visitor for some time for us to become common-law. For health reasons I was forced to return to Denmark. So we applied outland and was approved in 8,5 months.

I would suggest for your girlfriend to get the working holiday visa. Then you can live together for a year and establish common-law. Then depending on how you feel, if you are able to be apart for around a year. Your girlfriend could go back to Sweden and do a year of school while waiting for the application to be processed. She can then once the application is approved transfer to a Canadian school.

Applying inland is also an option. But you have a whole year to decide whether to apply inland or outland. Your first step is to become commom-law and gather all the evidence you can.

 

[taiwanaintchina]

What if she did her studies and visited you during all her breaks and you visited her whenever you had time off? It ends up being a lot of time together. Skype each week, whatsapp every day. You can work towards learning swedish to work there, she can maybe look into a gap year mid studies and you can get married or live together for 12 months, get the application started, and then by the time she finished she would have PR, you would know you still like each other, and she would have more satisfaction knowing she has started her career instead of resentment which would not do well for a relationship. Long distance is hard, but if you are both committed and put in the hard effort it can be done.

That's another option we are considering - thanks Mike! Ideally we would love to be with each other as soon as possible, but at the moment this does seem like the most logical option.

 

[taiwanaintchina]

Hey!
I fully understand where you are at. I’m Danish, and I came to Canada on a working holiday visa a few years ago and met my boyfriend. We were both 20 at that time and felt marriage was a bit early, (Our culture considered) but we were ready to marry if that’s what it would take to be together. I ended up staying in Canada as a visitor for some time for us to become common-law. For health reasons I was forced to return to Denmark. So we applied outland and was approved in 8,5 months.

I would suggest for your girlfriend to get the working holiday visa. Then you can live together for a year and establish common-law. Then depending on how you feel, if you are able to be apart for around a year. Your girlfriend could go back to Sweden and do a year of school while waiting for the application to be processed. She can then once the application is approved transfer to a Canadian school.

Applying inland is also an option. But you have a whole year to decide whether to apply inland or outland. Your first step is to become commom-law and gather all the evidence you can.

Hey!
I fully understand where you are at. I’m Danish, and I came to Canada on a working holiday visa a few years ago and met my boyfriend. We were both 20 at that time and felt marriage was a bit early, (Our culture considered) but we were ready to marry if that’s what it would take to be together. I ended up staying in Canada as a visitor for some time for us to become common-law. For health reasons I was forced to return to Denmark. So we applied outland and was approved in 8,5 months.

I would suggest for your girlfriend to get the working holiday visa. Then you can live together for a year and establish common-law. Then depending on how you feel, if you are able to be apart for around a year. Your girlfriend could go back to Sweden and do a year of school while waiting for the application to be processed. She can then once the application is approved transfer to a Canadian school.

Applying inland is also an option. But you have a whole year to decide whether to apply inland or outland. Your first step is to become commom-law and gather all the evidence you can.

Wow - that's amazing. Congratulations on your success! It's good to know that there are happy endings that exist. Would it be possible for me to private message you (is that a thing on this forum?) to ask more questions about your process?

 

[CMogensen]

Wow - that's amazing. Congratulations on your success! It's good to know that there are happy endings that exist. Would it be possible for me to private message you (is that a thing on this forum?) to ask more questions about your process?

Yeah you are more than welcome!

 

[carolbb23]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the forum so I apologize in advance if I do anything stupid. I have tried to do as much research as I could prior to making this post, and am currently debating whether or not I should schedule a consultation with a lawyer to receive legal advice.

BACKGROUND:

My girlfriend and I met in January 2018, while I was studying abroad (bachelors degree) in Sweden. She is a Swedish citizen. We have been dating for the last 7 months. Unfortunately my student visa expired back in May and I had to move back to Canada to resume my studies. Since then, we have been dating long distance. I have returned to Sweden for a couple of days at a time to visit her, and she has also flew to Canada to visit me as well.

As she has not started her undergraduate studies, our original plan was for her to apply for Canadian universities as well as a student visa, and then get a PR in the future. This way, we would be able to live together while she began her university studies in September 2019, and while I worked full-time (I graduate from university this year).
However after researching more on international tuition we realized this wasn't financially feasible, as she could just stay in Sweden and receive free education. We have also looked into student loans and scholarship opportunities.

Another option we have considered is having her apply for a working holiday visa, which will allow her to work in Canada for a year, and then extend it to a visitors visa, which will give us more time, but she will eventually have to leave anyways.

Is there any advice you all would have for this situation? We are looking for a way to end long distance. We are both in love with each other, and are both confident in continuing long distance, but we would like to find a way to close this distance in the near future.

Should we have her move over and live with me with a working holiday visa + visitors visa, collect all necessary documents, then apply for a PR with a common law relationship? Should we just get married? This would mean she would be eligible for domestic tuition, which is also a pro.

I'd love to get any advice! Constructive criticism is appreciated. If we are just being insane and dumb please let me know too. I know 7 months isn't a long relationship, and that we are both still young, but we have had many discussions about this topic and our relationship and have decided that this is something we both want to do.

EDIT: Thanks for the advice everyone! For more context, i am 20 and she is 19. Marriage IS an option but we are looking for other ways to solve this problem too!

if you get married to soon there is red flags

 

[taiwanaintchina]

if you get married to soon there is red flags

Yes we definitely agree with that statement too! That is why we are looking to find other solutions to this problem. We want to get married in the future under our own circumstances

 

[carolbb23]

Yes we definitely agree with that statement too! That is why we are looking to find other solutions to this problem. We want to get married in the future under our own circumstances

work visa or there is common law like you say student visa is to expensive for uni for her