Thanks for looking; My US girlfriend currently staying with me during her visit from her home in the USA will be submitting a visitors extension in the next few days to extend her stay from January 10 2021 (expires July 9 .. or 10?)
Our plan is to extend her visit to be here for a total of one year and then apply for common law sponsorship through me, a Canadian citizen. I outline this in a brief letter I will have her include in her application.
I've been doing reading for days and it seems like submitting common law sponsorship (which is PR correct?) will extend her stay under, "implied status" and she will be able to remain here during the process. The same implied status we will most likely be on during the next 4-6 months before we hear back anyway regarding the visitor's extension request.
With all of my reading I'm growing concerned they could deny her application, and I'm not sure how to proceed at that point. Would we be told, "Nope, you gotta go in a week" and then just submit a visitor's extension, or what would our options be?
SO I am torn now on what she should put on her current - first - visitor's extension: It needs to be to AT LEAST January 10 to give us the 1 year mark since she arrived and has lived with me - though our first "bill" shows her name and my address at Jan 25. Should we ask for Feb 1, 2022? A full year making it July 10, 2022? Because to me it seems it can take more than 6 months for them to get back to us regarding her PR anyway, at which point why bother asking for an extension BEYOND what we need in order to apply for common law sponsorship?
I've been reading a lot, and tried my best to answer these questions, I appreciate any help at all - thank you!
Our plan is to extend her visit to be here for a total of one year and then apply for common law sponsorship through me, a Canadian citizen. I outline this in a brief letter I will have her include in her application.
I've been doing reading for days and it seems like submitting common law sponsorship (which is PR correct?) will extend her stay under, "implied status" and she will be able to remain here during the process. The same implied status we will most likely be on during the next 4-6 months before we hear back anyway regarding the visitor's extension request.
With all of my reading I'm growing concerned they could deny her application, and I'm not sure how to proceed at that point. Would we be told, "Nope, you gotta go in a week" and then just submit a visitor's extension, or what would our options be?
SO I am torn now on what she should put on her current - first - visitor's extension: It needs to be to AT LEAST January 10 to give us the 1 year mark since she arrived and has lived with me - though our first "bill" shows her name and my address at Jan 25. Should we ask for Feb 1, 2022? A full year making it July 10, 2022? Because to me it seems it can take more than 6 months for them to get back to us regarding her PR anyway, at which point why bother asking for an extension BEYOND what we need in order to apply for common law sponsorship?
I've been reading a lot, and tried my best to answer these questions, I appreciate any help at all - thank you!
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