Re: How to get landed immigrant status in Canada for offshore fiance?
Your fiancee is from a non-visa-exempt country, which means she has to apply in advance of coming to Canada for permission to even board transport here. If she tells them she is coming to Canada to marry, they will automatically refuse the application - so right off the bat she's looking at lying to get here, and that's not a good thing. If she were already here, and you'd met her at school or work or something, it would be different - but, really, the only option for the two of you to marry is for you to go there. Then, you come back to Canada and
file an application to sponsor her for Permanent Residence. (If you are a Canadian citizen, you can stay in the Philippines with her and be eligible to sponsor her from abroad.)
Once the application is approved through the overseas Embassy in Manila, she can come to Canada as a landed immigrant and go to work. It currently takes about 1 month to get approval on your eligibility to sponsor (through the Case Processing Centre in Mississauga) and then they transfer the application to Manila. Manila is currently finalizing spousal PR applications in 4-6 months.
Be sure you keep "evidence" of the development of your relationship: your correspondence, phone records, receipts from trips to visit, etc., to prove your "genuine relationship". You will have to demonstrate that this is not a relationship entered into just to facilitate her entry to Canada.
