Hello!
My fiance is Canadian, and I'm a Filipino living in the US. I'm a legal resident here, just not a citizen.
Anyway, we plan on getting married next year, having been dating for about four years now. We we're looking around at how long sponsorships would process, and we found ourselves confused at something: Do we have to be married before he sponsors me, or can I be considered a partner?
We want to start our application as soon as possible, and his sponsorship application would be okay, but we don't know what i would apply for as a permanent resident.
If we submit our applications now (in hopes of getting it done by our wedding date and having us move there immediately), I won't be his spouse legally. He can't take time off work to come here and sign marriage papers because he just started his job and we want to save as much of his days off as we can for the wedding. Same for me.
Is there a way we can submit our applications early WITHOUT being actually married yet? We do have the documents proving our relationship, from e-mails to chat transcripts to pictures of when he visits. Even phone records.
Help @.@
My fiance is Canadian, and I'm a Filipino living in the US. I'm a legal resident here, just not a citizen.
Anyway, we plan on getting married next year, having been dating for about four years now. We we're looking around at how long sponsorships would process, and we found ourselves confused at something: Do we have to be married before he sponsors me, or can I be considered a partner?
We want to start our application as soon as possible, and his sponsorship application would be okay, but we don't know what i would apply for as a permanent resident.
If we submit our applications now (in hopes of getting it done by our wedding date and having us move there immediately), I won't be his spouse legally. He can't take time off work to come here and sign marriage papers because he just started his job and we want to save as much of his days off as we can for the wedding. Same for me.
Is there a way we can submit our applications early WITHOUT being actually married yet? We do have the documents proving our relationship, from e-mails to chat transcripts to pictures of when he visits. Even phone records.
Help @.@