Hi all,
I plan to sponsor my fiancée (wife by the time we start to apply) to become a permanent resident of Canada. And we want to seek some advises on our eligibility and how to increase the chance of approval. Here is our current situation:
I'm a 28 years old Chinese male. I became PR of Canada at the end of 2012 after studying in a Canadian university for 5 years and working as a software developer in Canada since 2011. My fiancée iand I actually knew each other since we were 4 years old and we were in the same class in kindergarten, primary school, and middle school for 12 years, but we established our relationship in September last year and I've been staying in China with her intermittently for about 4 months since then, travelling between Canada and China, for rest of the time we were communicating using internet. Now I'm back to work in Canada and we plan to get married in China pretty soon.
I'm planning to get her immigrated to Canada as my spouse after we get married. I can provide a lot of records of our communication, daily photos, wedding photos, etc. And some of my questions are:
1) She recently had her study visa application to Canada rejected for lack of travel history and purpose of visit. As our original plan was to get her to come here to study first so we can live together while she can slowly get used to Canadian culture and be prepared for employment. But unfortunately that didn't work out. Would this affect our application later for spouse immigration? When would be a good time to start immigration application, right after our marriage or after a period of time after our marriage?
2) Do I need to be in Canada at the time we submit the application? And do I need to remain in Canada while the application is in process? Obviously we don't want to live apart for too long although I admit this might be unavoidable.
3) I managed to get my company to approve me working from China for a couple of months, but can I satisfy the immigration officer on the requirement that our relationship being genuine if we'll be apart for much of the time until her application gets approved?
4) If I have spent a couple months, or even a year in China living with my wife before I come back to Canada and submit our application, would this have any negative effect on the application?
Any advises, suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!
I plan to sponsor my fiancée (wife by the time we start to apply) to become a permanent resident of Canada. And we want to seek some advises on our eligibility and how to increase the chance of approval. Here is our current situation:
I'm a 28 years old Chinese male. I became PR of Canada at the end of 2012 after studying in a Canadian university for 5 years and working as a software developer in Canada since 2011. My fiancée iand I actually knew each other since we were 4 years old and we were in the same class in kindergarten, primary school, and middle school for 12 years, but we established our relationship in September last year and I've been staying in China with her intermittently for about 4 months since then, travelling between Canada and China, for rest of the time we were communicating using internet. Now I'm back to work in Canada and we plan to get married in China pretty soon.
I'm planning to get her immigrated to Canada as my spouse after we get married. I can provide a lot of records of our communication, daily photos, wedding photos, etc. And some of my questions are:
1) She recently had her study visa application to Canada rejected for lack of travel history and purpose of visit. As our original plan was to get her to come here to study first so we can live together while she can slowly get used to Canadian culture and be prepared for employment. But unfortunately that didn't work out. Would this affect our application later for spouse immigration? When would be a good time to start immigration application, right after our marriage or after a period of time after our marriage?
2) Do I need to be in Canada at the time we submit the application? And do I need to remain in Canada while the application is in process? Obviously we don't want to live apart for too long although I admit this might be unavoidable.
3) I managed to get my company to approve me working from China for a couple of months, but can I satisfy the immigration officer on the requirement that our relationship being genuine if we'll be apart for much of the time until her application gets approved?
4) If I have spent a couple months, or even a year in China living with my wife before I come back to Canada and submit our application, would this have any negative effect on the application?
Any advises, suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!
