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| Subject: getting married overseas, need advice |
hi, i going to get married in vietnam next year, i need to know what i have to do to make everything go smooth... i´m a canadian citizen and i have very little funds to get legal counsel, so any insight will help... also is there anything i have to do before i leave the country?
[21-10-2004,18:54]
tigercrane |
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Tiger:
First, congratulations for your future wedding!
I would first check the processing time for the closest visa office to your future wife´s place of residence. Go to the CIC and search for "spouse" class Permanent Residence Applications processed OUTSIDE Canada. The longer the period required to processing, the more time you will be separated and suffering, like I am, for not seeing your wife.
Then, after checking the time required to process the application, I would decide whether I marry overseas or bring the future wife to Canada under visitor´s visa and marry her in Canada. Once married in Canada you can sponsor her WITHIN Canada. This method might be longer for the processing, but the advantage is that your wife will actually be living with you under the same roof!!! She will have a temporary SSN which will entitle her to work in Canada while she waits for the process to finish.
Hope this helps!
COngrats!
[21-10-2004,19:08]
ozz |
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First of all, congratulations on the wedding coming up. Good that you are doing the wedding overseas rather than here in Canada. Make sure that you get lots of pictures of all the marriage functions and honeymoon taken and that you get a valid marriage licence when you are there. Keep all your phone records from here as well as e-mails and letters. You need to be able to give the powers that be the confidence that you are genuinely married.
Hopefully, you have some relatives (like parents) attending the wedding with you but if you don´t, I don´t think it is the end of the world.
Furthermore, in order that I could apply for my husband as soon as I got back, I had him do a bunch of stuff before I got there like get his medical done and get the security clearance started (India). From here, I got my employer to write me a letter of employment and I called Revenue Canada and got them to send me the Option C printout that is required. All I had to do when I got back was essentially put the package together and mail it - don´t forget about paying the fee! Pay it all at once ($1525) to avoid further delays.
Hope this helps...I´m still waiting for my hubby and it´s been 3 months since I started the immigration process.
By the way, don´t confuse the issue by having your spouse come here on a visitor´s visa or something - you need to keep things as simple as possible. That´s the best advice I can give you - and what I was given as well by my MP.
[21-10-2004,19:08]
wondering |
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Tiger:
If you sponsor WITHIN Canada, you will avoid the three months of waiting Wondering is going through ot the 7 months of waiting I have been going through.
Personally, I regrest I applied from OUTSIDE, because had I applied from INSIDE, I would have been waiting for the process to finish within Canada, watching my wife and son every single day.
The choice is yours!
[21-10-2004,19:12]
ozz |
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I understand your point ozz, I can see that this is a difficult separation considering there is also a child involved. For me, I am the wife sponsoring my husband and I think that in addition to him being here and not knowing anyone, his feelings of anxiety would be compounded by not being able to work legally. When he arrives (hopefully soon), he will be afforded all the rights any other Permanent Resident is granted and won´t have to feel like he´s not productive. I think that would have put a strain on our new marriage.
[21-10-2004,19:16]
wondering |
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Check this link for PR processing times in the Spouse category in Asia and the Pacific:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/times-int/2003-Q3/05-fc-spouses.html
You need to find which of this consulates will be processing your future wife´s application.
[21-10-2004,19:18]
ozz |
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Wondering,
The sponsored relative, in this case spouse, can apply for a temporary working permit so that he/she is entitled to work in Canada while his/her application is processed. I know people who have gotten such permit and allowed to work while their applications WITHIN Canada are processed.
[21-10-2004,19:21]
ozz |
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Hi Ozz, when I called Immigration on all three occasions (I posed the same 10 questions to each agent to check for consistency...sad that we have to do that...), all three said that it is doubtful that the person I´m sponsoring would even be able to get a visitor´s visa if we are truthful about why he is coming. And I´m sure that getting a temporary work permit is not that easy?
[21-10-2004,19:35]
wondering |
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Wondering,
You are absolutely right and raised a very good point: If you mention the person is coming to Canada to get married and then stay, a request for visitor´s visa will not be rejected.
[21-10-2004,19:48]
Anonymous |
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Sorry, I meant to say WILL BE REJECTED!!!!
UPS!
[21-10-2004,19:49]
ozz |
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Oh trust me ozz, it´s not that I didn´t check this out! :-)
And if you lie about your reason for the visitor visa, do you think that bodes well for your immigration application? I´m sure that they would not be happy...although so many people do it I´m sure.
I too am just dying to see my husband and if I could have reduced the waiting time, I would have done anything possible. It´s too bad that he couldn´t have just come back with me on the plane...but then I guess there are a those who abuse the system and there needs to be checks and balances.
I wish you the best though. Keep us posted as I will.
[21-10-2004,19:58]
Wondering |
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thanks guys, all the insight you have given me will help...
my wife also thanks everyone for replying...
[25-10-2004,12:36]
tigercrane |
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