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I have been researching this hours on end, and at the end of the day I just want to curl up and relax with my boyfriend and the dogs, but I can´t figure out how to accomplish this.
We´re not married, and though we´ve discussed it, marriage is a rather dated tradition. I don´t have any fancy degrees or money for college, while my boyfriend is an engineer and can support me until I´m legally able to apply for work in Canada. I´m currently starting my own dog training business here in the U.S, and I emphasize "starting" (still working on a webpage and haven´t started marketing yet). I don´t yet have certification for dog training as the test is something that only comes once per year, so I have to wait till September to even take the test. Would this field of work qualify for entrepreneurial work? Though if I´m not mistaken I´d have to have two years experience in the field? (If it takes me two years of working as a professional to get to him, then I´ll wait... grudgingly)
I am also starting a business online selling sculptures. How are online businesses looked at? If I do not have a work visa and I am selling things online while living in Canada, would this be considered illegal? Or could this in any way qualify me for a work visa/permanent residency/other? What if we put the online business in his name and I were to only manufacture the items?
Most importantly, what is the best way for me to move in with my boyfriend without having to leave in 6 months (I think that´s the time allowance for passports/travelers?)? How am I suppose to go live with him for 6 months, not make any money, then just leave? I´d be homeless. Right now I do not have an income and live with a friend who helps me financially because I have PTSD (no, I am not a vet) and depression. But like I said, I´m trying to put my life together, start a couple of businesses, etc. I am trying to figure out if I should be opening a dog training business here in the U.S, or if it´s possible that I could start one in Canada instead.
How long does it take to acquire permanent residency? What about temporary residency? How long does temporary residency last? When people go live in Canada and become dependent on someone for the 6 months they´re allowed per year to be there, what do they do for the other 6 months?
How do you become a common-law partner when you´re not even allowed to live with your loved one for longer than 6 months? Surely there´s something I´m not understanding?
I thank you ahead of time for reading this long winded questionnaire. All responses/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Much thanks.
- "American Beauty"
[30-03-2012,10:18]
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AmericanBeauty |
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Negligent Driving affect perm/temp residency? (in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
Also, almost 2 years ago I was riding with a bonehead who accidentally went through the Nexus(?) Lane. Then I was told to go inside and talk with whomever, and because I had a negligent driving on my record from 4 1/2 years previously with a 5 year probational period we were denied access into Canada. The negligent driving was alcohol related which I´m pretty sure is viewed the same as a DUI in Canada (a felony). It´s been 6 years now I think since then. How could this affect applying for permanent/temporary residency, visas, etc?
[30-03-2012,10:39]
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AmericanBeauty |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
Ok, I will break it down for you.
At this point you are inadmmissible to enter Canada due to a previous DUI.
If you try to enter Canada even as a visitor, you will be refused of entry.
You don´t qualify as an investor either so that is out of the equation.
You don´t hold any kind of education or experience in any desirable field so the work permit is out of the equation.
First thing is to overcome your conviction.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/rehabil.asp
Your pretty much only option is that after that, if you have lived with your boyfriend for more than a year as a common-law he may be able to sponsor you to come to Canada.
He will have to do that and you have to wait outside of Canada until the application is processed and approved. Then CIC will issue your immigrant visa then you can move to Canada.
Your previous DUI is going to cause an issue though. You need to solve that first. Under the Customs & Immigration act you are inadmissible to enter Canada.
When you were refused of entry, did the officer asked you to sign anything? a Blue or yellow form by any chance?
Blue form: Volunteer departure order..no problem
Yellow form: Exclusion order....more problems to your future application.
[30-03-2012,10:53]
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DocD |
Thank you for your response, DocD (in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
Thank you for responding, DocD. I did not realize that I needed to apply for rehabilitation, etc. I´ve never had a speeding ticket, no parking tickets, never been pulled over, etc. I´m sure it would have been a volunteer departure order. I can´t imagine why I´d have to sign an exclusion order. Now that you´ve mentioned it, the woman told me to apply for rehabilitation once 5 years had passed.
How do we become common-law if I can´t get permanent or temporary residency until we are common-law? I thought passports only allowed you to stay for 6 months? So then there´s no way to live consecutively one year together.
Do you know anything in regards to buying and selling things online? Is there a loophole where as an American citizen I can sell items from an American website while residing in Canada?
Also, how do we become common-law if I can´t contribute to the household financially? Do the rules for common-law require that I contribute financially for that year?
Thank you again for your time and information. :)
- "American Beauty"
[30-03-2012,15:13]
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AmericanBeauty |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
Why complicate matters? There are men in US who have desire and like to be with any AmericanBeauty; Beauty always brings you lovers and you make turn them into husbands!!! DocD is practical but I think you don´t have any chances of being in Canada however you look at it. See if your man can move to US, be with you and be happy....
[30-03-2012,17:41]
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Simple |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
I am not being practical or optimistic. I am just saying you what the process is.
Forget the idea of moving to Canada. You can´t. You are inadmissible at this point, parking violations, speeding tickets are just tickets. DUI´s are in your criminal record that is a different story all together and stay there unless you do something about it.
Quoted"Now that you´ve mentioned it, the woman told me to apply for rehabilitation once 5 years had passed"
That´s a common practice. Your boyfriend would have to move down to the US and live with you in this case and you still have to apply for a pardon and meet the requirements of the application for permanent residency.
Regarding what you call a "loop hole" if you are living in Canada and are conducting your online (internet) business primarily from Canada, then the Canada Revenue Agency will impose tax on the profits from your online business even if it is incorporated outside Canada. The reason being is that the Canada Revenue Agency will argue that the mind and management of your online business is located in Canada and therefore should be subject to Canadian income tax. Likely you also have to pay taxes in the US as well since it is incorporated there.
Check with Revenue Canada and an accountant though.
[30-03-2012,18:23]
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DocD |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
Yes, at this point without "rehabilitation" I am inadmissible. But I´m not looking to move to Canada tomorrow. I wasn´t even guilty of the crime for which I was convicted. I was young and scared so took a deal because that´s what my court appointed attorney advised. I also had an overbearing father down my back to take the deal, so I did. The decision to do so gave me much grief as this is now associated with the night of my friend´s wake and I was pressured into taking a deal that I should have never been asked to take had I had a competent lawyer who would have put in the time to present my case properly rather than throwing me under the bus. My car had malfunctioned, so I called my friend whose house I had just left and he was on his way to pick me up. I grabbed my overnight things out of the trunk, along with a bottle of whiskey, realized it was from when the last time I saw my now deceased friend since he was a whiskey drinker, and was miserable from just being at his wake hours earlier, so I drank it while I waited for my friend to pick me up. I was 23 years old. No genius thought of police becoming involved even crossed my mind. So I was waiting for my friend, and before he arrived a cop showed up. I wasn´t driving drunk, I was walking drunk. I´m pretty sure it´s not a criminal offense to be drunk in public. The whiskey I was drinking was even documented. If the attorney had taken 5 minutes to look over the "evidence" he would have seen that I received a negligent driving for walking down the street drunk. I´m trying to not get pissed off right now because it´s so ridiculous and this just wont go away. I even passed the field sobriety test because the alcohol wasn´t even fully in my system! And they wonder why at the station my alcohol content raised since the field sobriety test and on-sight breathalyzer. It´s the nightmare that haunts me and now I feel great sympathy for people imprisoned wrongly as I see it just takes being broke, unable to afford an attorney willing to defend you, and a bonehead lawyer to ruin your life.
So with all of this vented, you can see if I am willing to put myself through hell again, deal with the gross amounts of anxiety this whole situation brings up for me, then I shouldn´t even have to prove that i´m "rehabilitated", but rather that I´m innocent. I´m pretty sure I could even find a past therapist that could vouch for the amount of social anxiety that I had at the time which is why I was such an easy lamb to cull into the slaughter that is now my life. But for love, I´d put myself through the hell of changing things to make them right and gain my reputation back as a law abiding citizen.
"Simple"... Why yes, you surely are a simple one. I traveled 3,000 miles across the country recently and did not find one man worthy of my love. Finding love and being in love has nothing to do with convenience. That´s why the most impossible love of my life is worth fighting for. I am a humble woman and it was my Canadian beau that gave me the endearing pet name "American Beauty". He has romanced the socks off of me. He drove 10 hours just to meet me. I haven´t even met American men who will drive an hour to see me. His love inspires me to find all of the beauty in myself and strength, and with his love I am strong enough to find a way to be with him. I want to move to Canada because I don´t have family, other than a sister who lives 3,000 miles away. He has a wealth of friends and family, and they are all waiting to welcome me into their lives as soon as I am granted permission to join them. There´s no reason to ask him to move here when his life is so rich there.
So with all of that said, how long does it take to "prove rehabilitation"? You say that I´m inadmissible, but I´m assuming you mean short term? Aren´t pardons granted more readily when you marry someone? Is that really the silly solution to everything? What has humanity come to... Anyone can get married and fake love. What year is this? What about women´s strives for independence... reduced to tangling yourself up financially with a man for marriage benefits? When is the institution of marriage going to change... It´s like saying "must convert to Christianity to enter to prove your loyalty and commitment to country." Anyone can do it... What is the purpose, even? To keep people who can´t find mates out of the country? Really?
[30-03-2012,22:56]
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AmericanBeauty |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
why doesn´t your Canadian love go to the US and live with you. You should have little problem getting a fiance visa for him.
[31-03-2012,01:04]
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Sharon |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
I would never ask him to do that and leave his friends and family, like i previously stated. I just recently moved 3,000 miles across the country and Massachusetts is no picnic. He also has a very good job. He has a beautiful life in Hamilton and I want to share it with him and his friends and family.
[31-03-2012,04:40]
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AmericanBeauty |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
in the world of immigration and real life what you ´want to do´ and what you are ´able to do´ are often two very different things.
Canada is not about to change their rules to suit your preferences or perceptions of fair so you may as well make peace with it now and get on with whatever it is you need to do to be with your CanadianBeau
[31-03-2012,07:23]
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Sharon |
(in reply to: Help AmericanBeauty get to her CanadianBeau)
I can see that you thought I needed to know that life isn´t fair, but you thought wrong. Discussing things and raising awareness is what brings on change. A trillion other conversations like this and eventually it will lead to change.
[31-03-2012,07:30]
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AmericanBeauty |
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