My girlfriend of five years is Californian. I am a New Brunswicker. We're both 25 years old. We met online. We are both women. She's come to visit me on different occassions, and in addition to wanting to be close to me, she's really fallen in love with the country.
What's our best best to get her into Canada?
- She has four years of work experience as an admin assisstant, but she doesn't speak French and the recent laws curbing skilled worker immigrations might make it really hard to get her in under this. She passes the test on the CIC website (has enough points!), but for the YEARS it can take to process these applications, and the fact that it's not a guaranteed thing, is it worth the time/fees when her job position isn't very in demand? (only 1k are chosen in a whole year!)
- I am permanently disabled and get a very small amount of money monthly from the government, so I can't support her to have her live here for a year while she's unemployed to get us common law status. Likewise, my credit is a gaping pit of sorrow and, again, my very, very small allowance makes the legal and financial aspects of marriage iffy. (Would love so more information on what legal and financial consequences marriage has, it's been remarkably hard to find information on this.) I don't think that our situation is "dire" enough to be considered worthy of conjugal status -- plus, financial emmeshment is needed for that, too. We definitely care enough for each other to get married, but if it would cost me my social assistance cheques and force her to support me while she was just starting out in the country, that doesn't seem fair.
There are also some family issues with same-sex marriage (not the relationship, but the marriage itself) but these are surmountable.
It looks to me like skilled worker looks unlikely, and the financial turbulence for both of us that marriage would cause might not be worth it.
What's our best bet? She wants to move here so badly, but it's so hard! Any advice that anyone could offer would be wonderful.
What's our best best to get her into Canada?
- She has four years of work experience as an admin assisstant, but she doesn't speak French and the recent laws curbing skilled worker immigrations might make it really hard to get her in under this. She passes the test on the CIC website (has enough points!), but for the YEARS it can take to process these applications, and the fact that it's not a guaranteed thing, is it worth the time/fees when her job position isn't very in demand? (only 1k are chosen in a whole year!)
- I am permanently disabled and get a very small amount of money monthly from the government, so I can't support her to have her live here for a year while she's unemployed to get us common law status. Likewise, my credit is a gaping pit of sorrow and, again, my very, very small allowance makes the legal and financial aspects of marriage iffy. (Would love so more information on what legal and financial consequences marriage has, it's been remarkably hard to find information on this.) I don't think that our situation is "dire" enough to be considered worthy of conjugal status -- plus, financial emmeshment is needed for that, too. We definitely care enough for each other to get married, but if it would cost me my social assistance cheques and force her to support me while she was just starting out in the country, that doesn't seem fair.
There are also some family issues with same-sex marriage (not the relationship, but the marriage itself) but these are surmountable.
It looks to me like skilled worker looks unlikely, and the financial turbulence for both of us that marriage would cause might not be worth it.
What's our best bet? She wants to move here so badly, but it's so hard! Any advice that anyone could offer would be wonderful.
