How to sponsor my gf

[yrret]

Hey guys.

I recently got my PR.

My GF is currently holding a post grad work permit which expires next year (2016 June). She has a stable job and recently got rejected from the CEC prog due to its 8000 applicants cap.

It seems very unlikely at this point that express entry will help her get a PR.

How do i go about sponsoring her to get her a PR.. yes i know we have to get married on paper before i sponsor her? Am i right?

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Rob_TO]

Yes you need to be married, or officially common-law (having lived together 12 continuous months). Those are your only 2 options.

 

[Lammawitch]

Hey guys.

I recently got my PR.

My GF is currently holding a post grad work permit which expires next year (2016 June). She has a stable job and recently got rejected from the CEC prog due to its 8000 applicants cap.

It seems very unlikely at this point that express entry will help her get a PR.

How do i go about sponsoring her to get her a PR.. yes i know we have to get married on paper before i sponsor her? Am i right?

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks!

No, you don't "have to get married", "on paper" or otherwise .... (I'm not quite sure what you mean by "on paper"?). If you live together for 12 months, you can also sponsor under common law.

Start here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/spouse.asp

 

[yrret]

What i meant is i dont have to go through a actual wedding first. i can jus go to city hall and get married, signed the papers and i can sponsor her under Family Class Sponsorship?
how long is the process?

 

[Rob_TO]

What i meant is i dont have to go through a actual wedding first. i can jus go to city hall and get married, signed the papers and i can sponsor her under Family Class Sponsorship?
how long is the process?

You could, but CIC may be suspicious as to why you are not doing a real wedding. Is the quickie marriage because you genuinely want to marry her? Or are you doing it just to expedite her PR process? If the latter that is known as a "marriage of convenience".

Typically there will be less scrutiny on a city hall wedding like this if you have a very long and established relationship first, and she is from a visa-exempt country.

If you've had a genuinely quick relationship up to this point (less than a year) and she is from a non-visa exempt country (especially one from which big wedding are usually expected), you may encounter problems. One aspect CIC used to see if a marriage is "real", is how normal the ceremony/reception is and if lots of friends/family attended.

 

[yrret]

Weddings are expensive that's why.
Not a quickee marriage and we have been tgt for 5 years and both of us are from Singapore, visa-exempt country.

how to determined a long and establish r/s from cic point of view

 

[RajaJi]

Weddings are expensive that's why.
Not a quickee marriage and we have been tgt for 5 years and both of us are from Singapore, visa-exempt country.

how to determined a long and establish r/s from cic point of view

Staying Together, Joint Bank Accounts, Insurance Policy, Joint Ownership, Joint Rental Agreements, Communications with each other, Photographs, Letters from Family Members/Friends, Travel Details are just few of the things which can be enclosed with application to demonstrate the relationship.


How can my common-law partner and I prove we have been together for 12 months?

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?q=347&t=14

 

[Rob_TO]

Weddings are expensive that's why.
Not a quickee marriage and we have been tgt for 5 years and both of us are from Singapore, visa-exempt country.

how to determined a long and establish r/s from cic point of view

With a 5 years relationship you should be fairly safe in doing a small city hall wedding. As mentioned there are lots of other proofs you can also include to prove you are a genuine married couple (i.e. joint finances, etc)

Hopefully during your 5 years of being together, you have never lived with each other for 12 months in a row at any time, either here or in Singapore or elsewhere.

 

[RajaJi]

With a 5 years relationship you should be fairly safe in doing a small city hall wedding. As mentioned there are lots of other proofs you can also include to prove you are a genuine married couple (i.e. joint finances, etc)

Hopefully during your 5 years of being together, you have never lived with each other for 12 months in a row at any time, either here or in Singapore or elsewhere.

I think Rob_TO meant to write (unless I am not reading it correctly)
'you have lived with each other for 12 months in a row many times, either here or in Singapore or elsewhere.'

 

[MilesAway]

I think Rob_TO meant to write (unless I am not reading it correctly)
'you have lived with each other for 12 months in a row many times, either here or in Singapore or elsewhere.'

No, I'm pretty sure he meant what he wrote. If they had lived together for 12 months, then he would have had to declare her on his PR application, and she would've gotten PR at the same time.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I think Rob_TO meant to write (unless I am not reading it correctly)
'you have lived with each other for 12 months in a row many times, either here or in Singapore or elsewhere.'

No, he most definitely did not mean to write that.

OP is a recent PR. If he became common-law with his partner at any point before he became a PR, he would have had to include her in the PR app; if he didn't, it means she is forever excluded from the Family Class and cannot be sponsored.

 

[RajaJi]

You both are correct MilesAway and canuck_in_uk. Rob_TO, definately,wrote what he meant. I was wrong in my understandiing. My apologies. I will strike out what I wrote so that not to confuse someone.