Hello all! I registered today so I could post and hopefully gain some insight or advice. Here is my situation;
I'm from the US, and I met my Canadian girlfriend in October 2013, and maintained a long distance relationship until we met on June 14th, 2014. I visited until the 28th, and then went home. I then worked my butt off and saved the money to bail out on my less than ideal living situation because GF had invited me to move in with her. I arrived back in Canada October 29th of 2014, and am still here. My GF and I both work our own jobs, I'm a freelance writer and she works full-time for a house cleaning company. Additionally, we work together on a bi-weekly paper route to bring in some extra cash (and get a little exercise as we are both homebodies.) Now, my passport stamp will expire I believe sometime in April. I need to apply to extend my visitor visa another six months so that I'm covered for a full year until we can apply for my PR card under Family Class. My questions about the visa extension are:
How am I supposed to show proof of income? My money from my writing goes to my PayPal, then to my GF's bank account. Can we just use her bank statements, or do they require me to open my own bank account? (And for that matter, how do they expect a visitor to work? ???)
Our concerns are mostly just over the proof of finances aspect. We do pretty well and I bring in around $250CAD weekly plus the income from our joint rout and her job, we just have no way to prove it. If worst comes to worst we have a plan B which is to move me back across the border in the Northern most part of the US in an apartment, but we reallly want to avoid that if we can. If you have any advice at all, please let us know!
I'm from the US, and I met my Canadian girlfriend in October 2013, and maintained a long distance relationship until we met on June 14th, 2014. I visited until the 28th, and then went home. I then worked my butt off and saved the money to bail out on my less than ideal living situation because GF had invited me to move in with her. I arrived back in Canada October 29th of 2014, and am still here. My GF and I both work our own jobs, I'm a freelance writer and she works full-time for a house cleaning company. Additionally, we work together on a bi-weekly paper route to bring in some extra cash (and get a little exercise as we are both homebodies.) Now, my passport stamp will expire I believe sometime in April. I need to apply to extend my visitor visa another six months so that I'm covered for a full year until we can apply for my PR card under Family Class. My questions about the visa extension are:
How am I supposed to show proof of income? My money from my writing goes to my PayPal, then to my GF's bank account. Can we just use her bank statements, or do they require me to open my own bank account? (And for that matter, how do they expect a visitor to work? ???)
Our concerns are mostly just over the proof of finances aspect. We do pretty well and I bring in around $250CAD weekly plus the income from our joint rout and her job, we just have no way to prove it. If worst comes to worst we have a plan B which is to move me back across the border in the Northern most part of the US in an apartment, but we reallly want to avoid that if we can. If you have any advice at all, please let us know!
