How to bring my fiancee to Canada as soon as possible?

[monsters]

You MUST DECLARE your common-law partner in your application now.

If you fail to include her, she will be forever excluded from the Family Class and you will NEVER be able to sponsor her. It is also misrepresentation, immigration fraud.

I don't want to apply in 'Common Law Partner' category. And we are not yet married. I am only interested to sponsor her after marriage as my wife.

 

[monsters]

It depends on cohabitation period. If they live under a single roof for 12 consecutive months at the time of submission of OP's application, then yes.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=346&top=14

I am confused. So as long as we lived together for 1 year, is it a must that we should inform CIC and add her as common law partner? I thought applying as a common law partner is personal choice. For my case I am thinking to do an inland or outland sponsor. Not common law partner.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I don't want to apply in 'Common Law Partner' category. And we are not yet married. I am only interested to sponsor her after marriage as my wife.

She is your common-law partner and you are required to include her in your application. Read my previous post. If you don't include her, you will NEVER be able to sponsor her, even if you marry.

 

[monsters]

It depends on cohabitation period. If they live under a single roof for 12 consecutive months at the time of submission of OP's application, then yes.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=346&top=14

I am confused. So as long as we lived together for 1 year, is it a must that we should inform CIC and add her as common law partner? I thought applying as a common law partner is personal choice. For my case I am thinking to do an inland or outland sponsor. Not common law partner.

 

[monsters]

TRV means tourist visa right? But applying a tourist visa for her now will affect her sponsorship later? Because currently we already know and decided about marriage. So does it considered as hiding the fact?

Hi nartcr,

Could you please tell me about the above query? It seems applying TRV for her now is a good option. So I would like to know more about this option. Also may I know normally how long is the validity of TRV? Is it 6 months? What about I marry her in Canada itself while she is on TRV and I am a PR?

 

[monsters]

She is your common-law partner and you are required to include her in your application. Read my previous post. If you don't include her, you will NEVER be able to sponsor her, even if you marry.

So as long as we lived together for 1 year, is it a must that we should inform CIC and add her as common law partner? I thought applying as a common law partner is personal choice. For my case I am thinking to do an inland or outland sponsor. Not common law partner.

 

[MilesAway]

So as long as we lived together for 1 year, is it a must that we should inform CIC and add her as common law partner? I thought applying as a common law partner is personal choice. For my case I am thinking to do an inland or outland sponsor. Not common law partner.

Please see the previous posts. If you do not declare and add your partner, you will NEVER be able to sponsor her. As well, you would be putting your own PR in jeopardy since you would be committing misrepresentation.

A common-law partner is someone you have lived with for a minimum of 12 consecutive months. It's not a choice.

 

[Rob_TO]

So as long as we lived together for 1 year, is it a must that we should inform CIC and add her as common law partner? I thought applying as a common law partner is personal choice. For my case I am thinking to do an inland or outland sponsor. Not common law partner.

It's NOT a personal choice. If you've lived together 1 year, your marital status is now common-law whether you like it or not.

You must immediately return your COPR and inform visa office you are common-law. Your partner will need to be included as dependent in your application, do police checks, and do medical exam. When the new processing is finished, you will then get COPR together.

If you don't do this, as mentioned by many here you can NEVER sponsor her to Canada EVER, even if you later get married.

 

[Sous02]

I know that you are not happy hearing about this problem. I urge you to do this properly as there are many sad cases of people who tried to avoid any delays. Take the advice you have been given. I know it is short time pain but the consequences are huge.

 

[jeffporfirio1]

I know that you are not happy hearing about this problem. I urge you to do this properly as there are many sad cases of people who tried to avoid any delays. Take the advice you have been given. I know it is short time pain but the consequences are huge.

Your case will get rejected if you plan to follow the way you have done things or planning to do things. Listen to the advice they are giving you. Don't be stubborn, as your case sounds like immigration fraud.

 

[monsters]

Thanks for all the advice. I will do as you all said...Don't want to take any risk about this.

 

[Sunset0505]

She is your common-law partner and you are required to include her in your application. Read my previous post. If you don't include her, you will NEVER be able to sponsor her, even if you marry.

MY GOODNESS!!!.. Finally we agree Canuck!!!....Claim her as your common law partner Monsters!

 

[monsters]

Your case will get rejected if you plan to follow the way you have done things or planning to do things. Listen to the advice they are giving you. Don't be stubborn, as your case sounds like immigration fraud.

It is not am being stubborn. I am just clarifying only ;D Anyway thanks for the advice

 

[Ponga]

Just echoing what's already been said. You MUST include her in your application.

There's nothing more to clarify...honestly!

 

[canadianwoman]

Currently we are living together which is about more than 1 year. 1 year and 2 months exact.

You have no choice. You are considered common-law, and so you must declare her on your current application. If you do not, you will never be able to sponsor her, even if you later marry her.
You were common-law partners as soon as you lived together for 12 consecutive months. It sounds like you were not common-law when you applied, so you did not commit misrepresentation then, However, you are common-law now, and have not landed yet. CIC wants to know when your status changes and when your family composition changes: this includes becoming common-law. When you land, the border agent will ask if your family composition has changed. If you say 'no' and therefore land as single, you will be committing misrepresentation.
You have to tell the visa office that you have become common-law, and want to add your partner to your application. Tell them now. Yes, this will delay things, as your partner will have to have a medical, get background checks, etc., and you will have to submit new forms. However, if you do not declare her now, you will not be able to sponsor her later.

If she has a severe medical condition, this might lead to her being refused a PR, and thus you would be refused too. Same if she had some criminal or security problem. However, in most cases adding a partner to your application will not cause a refusal. You should know already if she has some problem that will prevent her from immigrating.