Kind of confused, looking for help here.
I am a mid 40s Canadian citizen, my girlfriend is also mid 40s and she is Portuguese, known each other for many years and met/going back and forth for over 2 years now.
Want to start the process of her moving to Canada. Her age doesn't rate highly on the entry calculators of course, her job does get listed as skilled when doing the test on here (the job classifier says Skilled NOC: 0621) but as far as we can see not it is not listed on skilled workers or those in need on canada.ca. She has post secondary credentials and language rates pretty highly, fluent in English and functional French, but the rest like living together, being common law, Canadian experience doesn't. We are wondering if the path has to be other than skilled or express.
Not sure if common law or conjugal are the only other options. If these paths are the best or only options how can one be together to satisfy things like common law requirements if she can't stay here longer than a 6 months allowed for a Portuguese national? One of the more confusing aspects is that if we start the process how can she stay here longer than 6 months? Does she need to apply for some temporary extension after applying? And then is she not allowed to go back during the process to check on her parents for example, is she 'stuck' in Canada without a job during the processing time that could be a year or more?
Also, the entry to Canada before applying must be a with a roundtrip ticket that the return gets unused? I ask this last question because in the times she has come for a one or two week visit she has been asked 'when are you returning' more than once so coming with a one way ticket is not the best idea if airport customs are already questioning a two tourist type visit, it seems.
Of course there are other practicalities to tackle like volunteering here, health insurance but any guidance is appreciated, thanks.
I am a mid 40s Canadian citizen, my girlfriend is also mid 40s and she is Portuguese, known each other for many years and met/going back and forth for over 2 years now.
Want to start the process of her moving to Canada. Her age doesn't rate highly on the entry calculators of course, her job does get listed as skilled when doing the test on here (the job classifier says Skilled NOC: 0621) but as far as we can see not it is not listed on skilled workers or those in need on canada.ca. She has post secondary credentials and language rates pretty highly, fluent in English and functional French, but the rest like living together, being common law, Canadian experience doesn't. We are wondering if the path has to be other than skilled or express.
Not sure if common law or conjugal are the only other options. If these paths are the best or only options how can one be together to satisfy things like common law requirements if she can't stay here longer than a 6 months allowed for a Portuguese national? One of the more confusing aspects is that if we start the process how can she stay here longer than 6 months? Does she need to apply for some temporary extension after applying? And then is she not allowed to go back during the process to check on her parents for example, is she 'stuck' in Canada without a job during the processing time that could be a year or more?
Also, the entry to Canada before applying must be a with a roundtrip ticket that the return gets unused? I ask this last question because in the times she has come for a one or two week visit she has been asked 'when are you returning' more than once so coming with a one way ticket is not the best idea if airport customs are already questioning a two tourist type visit, it seems.
Of course there are other practicalities to tackle like volunteering here, health insurance but any guidance is appreciated, thanks.
