Hi all,
This is all new to me. I'm a recent member and have spent the day reading various posts which have been really helpful, so thank you to you all for that!
I'm British and have been with my girlfriend since November 2012. We lived together in South Korea where we worked for 2 years (the apartment wasn't in our names though). In August 2014 we left Korea and travelled around Asia and eventually to Canada in October. I met her friends and family and stayed there for 7 weeks. In turn, she then came with me back to England in December for Xmas and New Year and eventually went back to Canada in Feb 2015. We've been working in our own countries since (although I visited her during Easter). :'(
I'm visiting her this summer for 4 weeks and during that time we're going to marry ;D! It'll be a small service with not too much fuss, but we wanted to do it and also figured that it'd help to apply for sponsorship as spouses rather than conjugal partners (which would be hard to prove). I will have to come back to UK 6 days after the wedding to resume work, but my contract expires in November so I'm looking to leave and do what I can to be together with my new wife. We plan to settle in Toronto.
So questions are: When we get the wedding certificate, we're going to apply for sponsorship straight away. I'd like to get it processed asap. Would it be better if we both went to live in Asia and applied through the Beijing or HK offices (we're thinking of working in Taiwan for 12 months), or would it be better for me to come to Canada in November/December and stay there until it's processed? Can we do this? Should we do inland or outland applications? The London office is currently taking 28 months to process applications so that's really slow.
We'll have spent Feb-December 2014 apart so ideally we'd not like to spend any more apart.
Apologies if this seems like an amateur post, but maybe that's what I am.
Thanks in advance you lovely people.
This is all new to me. I'm a recent member and have spent the day reading various posts which have been really helpful, so thank you to you all for that!
I'm British and have been with my girlfriend since November 2012. We lived together in South Korea where we worked for 2 years (the apartment wasn't in our names though). In August 2014 we left Korea and travelled around Asia and eventually to Canada in October. I met her friends and family and stayed there for 7 weeks. In turn, she then came with me back to England in December for Xmas and New Year and eventually went back to Canada in Feb 2015. We've been working in our own countries since (although I visited her during Easter). :'(
I'm visiting her this summer for 4 weeks and during that time we're going to marry ;D! It'll be a small service with not too much fuss, but we wanted to do it and also figured that it'd help to apply for sponsorship as spouses rather than conjugal partners (which would be hard to prove). I will have to come back to UK 6 days after the wedding to resume work, but my contract expires in November so I'm looking to leave and do what I can to be together with my new wife. We plan to settle in Toronto.
So questions are: When we get the wedding certificate, we're going to apply for sponsorship straight away. I'd like to get it processed asap. Would it be better if we both went to live in Asia and applied through the Beijing or HK offices (we're thinking of working in Taiwan for 12 months), or would it be better for me to come to Canada in November/December and stay there until it's processed? Can we do this? Should we do inland or outland applications? The London office is currently taking 28 months to process applications so that's really slow.
We'll have spent Feb-December 2014 apart so ideally we'd not like to spend any more apart.
Apologies if this seems like an amateur post, but maybe that's what I am.
Thanks in advance you lovely people.
