us immigration calgary
Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 4:06 am
US Citizen Attempting to Be WIth Girlfriend In Canada?
Hi, I have a serious/romantic relationship with a girl currently living in Calgary, Canada. This September she will be moving to a college dorm in Kingston, Ontario to attend a University. We have been planning to live together for over a year now and I’m confused as to the immigration laws in Canada.
First of all I am a U.S. Citizen and have recently renewed my passport so the expiration date is good for another 10 years. I am 19 years old, have an excellent education history but stopped in my final year of High School for various personal reasons pertaining to future life goals such as professional boxing.
Her and I also plan on getting married within the next year. What we want is to be able to live together throughout her college years in that University. We’ve gone through so much in our wait to be back together physically again and are starting to get really desperate.
My question is is there any way for us to be together for those 4 years? I’ve read all over….
You can visit Canada for up to six months as a US citizen. For the purpose of immigrating to Canada you do not have a good education history – you are a high school dropout, which is a poor education history.
Is your girlfriend a Canadian citizen? If so, when you have been in a committed relationship for more than a year (whether you lived together or not), she can sponsor you to come to Canada. However, if she is a student, how would she support you? By sponsoring you, she would be agreeing to support you, since you would not be able to work in Canada.
There is no easy answer to how you could be together in Canada for the four years of her university. Even if you were a Canadian citizen you would not be able to live with her in her college dorm unless you were also a student at that school. You need to finish high school, and then possibly you could apply to attend the same university she is attending and come to Canada on a study visa to start. If you truly want to be together, get your high school diploma and go from there.
