Living aboard and wants to sponser my fiance

[dee2019]

As canadian citizen, born and study in canada, have the opportunity to get a job overseas as a ESL teacher for almost 6 years, i still live there and i met my fiancé two years ago. In order to sponser him , should i leave my work there and come to canada ?can I apply from the embassy ! What are the requirements and the process time ? My parents are canadian citizen too and they can help me to provide any assistance required

 

[garbimba]

You can sponsor, but you will need to move back to Canada before it gets approved, i.e. if you're going to be working outside of Canada for 6 years, then you may as well wait until you're almost finished with your job before you apply to sponsor her.

 

[Bs65]

So just to add in case you not aware that there is no such thing as fiancé sponsorship, you either have to be common law, cohabiting for 12 plus months or married.

In theory as a citizen provided you meet either the common law or married criteria you could start the sponsorship process from outside of Canada as long as you show intent to move back. To this end does make sense given a spouse sponsorship can take up to 12 months to apply maybe during your last 12 months of your current job outside the country.

Not sure from your post whether you meant you had the opportunity , past tense, or you have an upcoming opportunity Working abroad for 6 years, if the latter that would complicate intent to return to a Canada.

Ultimately once the spouse PR has been granted then suspect people might just spend as little time as possible in the country before leaving again and taking advantage of PR accompanying a citizen abroad rule for the PR to maintain residency obligation.