Hello,
my situation is that I am here in Canada since last year on a visitor visa, I could extend my visitor visa for purpose of exploring my relationship with my Canadian boyfriend, we are getting married in 2 weeks since we are sure that we want to spend the rest of our lives together. My fiance is going to sponsor me (I am from Germany). My problem is now the following: my last visitor record ended at the end of November, to keep my legal status I submitted an visa extension explaining that I will apply for my permanent residence, we are going Inland route. This year was a very ruff financial situation for us, since I can`t work and my boyfriend had last year a unexpected high bill to pay, which was for both of us a shock, but it had to be payed. For that reason we only can submit my inland application and my open work permit application at the end of January (then we have the all the money for the fees). I am wondering now, since I am really worried that my visa extension can get refused, if I maybe can submit a restoration of status application along with a copy of the payed permanent resident fees ? To prevent that I fall under illegal status. What I can see on the timeline, at the moment the visa extension timeline is about 90 days, that means the decision will be here around end of january. Should and CAN I submit a restoration of status application before a decision on my visa extension is made to keep my legal stauts ? I am within the 90 days at the end of january so it would be not too late. I am really worried and scared, thank you for any help and answers.
my situation is that I am here in Canada since last year on a visitor visa, I could extend my visitor visa for purpose of exploring my relationship with my Canadian boyfriend, we are getting married in 2 weeks since we are sure that we want to spend the rest of our lives together. My fiance is going to sponsor me (I am from Germany). My problem is now the following: my last visitor record ended at the end of November, to keep my legal status I submitted an visa extension explaining that I will apply for my permanent residence, we are going Inland route. This year was a very ruff financial situation for us, since I can`t work and my boyfriend had last year a unexpected high bill to pay, which was for both of us a shock, but it had to be payed. For that reason we only can submit my inland application and my open work permit application at the end of January (then we have the all the money for the fees). I am wondering now, since I am really worried that my visa extension can get refused, if I maybe can submit a restoration of status application along with a copy of the payed permanent resident fees ? To prevent that I fall under illegal status. What I can see on the timeline, at the moment the visa extension timeline is about 90 days, that means the decision will be here around end of january. Should and CAN I submit a restoration of status application before a decision on my visa extension is made to keep my legal stauts ? I am within the 90 days at the end of january so it would be not too late. I am really worried and scared, thank you for any help and answers.
