Hey. Nice meeting you.boasorte said:Hey there, is your process OUTSIDE or WITHIN CANADA?
Same-sex relationship here as well! xo
There's no extra requirement other than the regular ones. Hetero or homo couples have to go through the same long process. Make sure to follow the check list closely, and provide as much proof as you can. For more information about applications or any other doubts you can ask me or go to CIC website where everything is really spelled out or go to the thread "INLANDERS" where you gonna find amazing people willing to help with different cases.KimJuliBC said:Hey. Nice meeting you.
We are still in preparation. It will be INLAND. Outland, we know, is easier, faster....but will be too complicated for our circumstances. There has been a family issue over there in the home country of my husband. I am fine with finance and support till my husband can get work permit. She was in Canada on temporary work permit but has expired now.
Good luck, and let us what sepcial requirement for a situation like ours.
OMG that's ridiculous! I'm am glad I did the whole thing by myself. I would never let these lawyers, consultants, make money on me. I have given them a try, but when the lawyer told us we would have to pay 6000$ CD, my partner and I decided we should do it ourselves.Iamrobot85 said:We are a same-sex couple too, we are married, though. I don't think the process will be any different because we are same-sex couples. There are no different requirements. Be careful though if you are thinking about hiring a consultant or lawyer. My husband and I were researching them and one of them tried to tell us that the application process is harder for gay couples so her fee would be double what it would have been. We naturally distrusted this and went with a different consultant who, when we told him what the first consultant had said, seemed dumbfounded and assured us that the process is no different or harder. The first consultant also told us there would have to be an additional charge for her services because my husband and I met online, and she said that that makes the application harder to get through, or to prove authenticity. I doubted this, as well, and the second consultant assured us that this is simply not the case.
I think you will be fine, just make sure you don't get suckered by an immigration consultant or lawyer, if you choose to hire one.
We don't expect "special treat" or expect the process to be different from the regular one. We only need to support each other and to feed back, from interviews, proof of relationships etc etcboasorte said:There's no extra requirement other than the regular ones. Hetero or homo couples have to go through the same long process. Make sure to follow the check list closely, and provide as much proof as you can. For more information about applications or any other doubts you can ask me or go to CIC website where everything is really spelled out or go to the thread "INLANDERS" where you gonna find amazing people willing to help with different cases.
Lets keep in touch, we are minority in here haha
boasorte,boasorte said:OMG that's ridiculous! I'm am glad I did the whole thing by myself. I would never let these lawyers, consultants, make money on me. I have given them a try, but when the lawyer told us we would have to pay 6000$ CD, my partner and I decided we should do it ourselves.
Thanks for sharing Iamrobot!
ps: Married here as well!
OY VAY! Read through this forum and the experiences of others and THEN judge whether it is easy or not. But it "tries" be fair (and fails miserably at times). However, you are right in that many other countries wouldn't even look at a same-sex relationship application. I'm pretty proud that Canada does.Iamrobot85 said:Also, I heard immigrating to Canada is relatively easy. I wonder how accurate that is. I mean, not taking into account that we are same-sex couples and a lot of countries wouldn't even look at our application if we were in the same spot with them.
The key word is "relatively." From what I've read, I think it is easier to immigrate to Canada than to some other countries such as the United States, but that doesn't mean that it is "easy" per se.Iamrobot85 said:Also, I heard immigrating to Canada is relatively easy. I wonder how accurate that is.