Regarding the subject of not wanting to immigrate to Canada. My husband has dual citizenship Canadian/German (born in Canada, father is German) and I am from Romania. We met for the first time in 1999 when I was 16 years old and he was 21, he was visiting Romania. We stayed in touch as friends for about a year, but then we lost contact, Internet wasn't very popular back then.
We resumed contact in April 2008, through Facebook. Talked on skype, facebook and telephone till September when we decided to meet again. My husband had been working in Germany since March 2008 at that time. We spent 3 weeks in England, vacationing. When we both said goodbye and separated at the airport, we realized we wanted more from the relationship, we wanted to get serious.
My parents invited my husband for the winter holidays in Romania, to meet him. He stayed 2 weeks at my parent's house in December 2008 and he proposed to me on Xmas day. I said yes, and after he arrived back in Germany, he made plans for my arrival here. I was somehow sad for leaving my home country, my family, my friends. But that didn't count much, I was in love and I would have done anything to be with the person I love. We discussed him moving to Romania, but looking at the job prospects for him and the low salaries, he wasn't very happy about it.
Anyway, I arrived in Germany in February 2009, we got married in June 2009. Both our families were at the wedding. We had a civil registry ceremony and a religious one on the same day. We are both of different religions, but we're not very religious people, we're more spiritual. I was baptized in the Othodox religious when I was 3 months old, had no say in it
We've been in Germany for 5 years, but we just decided to move to Canada. I wasn't ready to move so far away from home and my husband was still working on building a nice career for himself. He misses Canada and he is not very happy here. We have no family here and no friends.
So yes, I understand not wanting to leave your comfort zone, but I would go to the end of the world to be with my husband.
Edit: I forgot to mention, that we have no children, but not by choice. It's because of medical reasons. I was actually wondering if this will raise a red flag with the VO. Married for almost 5 years, but no children. What do you think?