arwynj55

Im not sure if this question has came up but couldnt for the life of me find it in the search bar, so sorry if it has been lol.

My partner has family in canada and we were thinking of moving there to live and work.
I know about the visas and sponsors.. but me and the other half atent married but we do have a child together. I was wondering if we could do the move together without the fuss of getting married just to go?? We both are 21, i work as a catering assistant in the NHS and the other half is stay at home mummy.

I know her family would be more than happy to sponsor us to go there, but my cant seem to find any information about if you have to be married to bring your other half with.

Thanks for any info

Also we have decided in new Brunswick we'll reside in. If it helps my partners uncle is an ICT teacher in a collage in new Brunswick.

dbd33

The good news is that "equivalent to married" works. The bad news is everything else about emigrating. I suppose someone with better knowledge and more tact will be along in due course.

Jerseygirl

Welcome to BE.

I am moving your thread across to the Canada Immigration forum. Before going further I recommend you take a read through the following...

Immigration & Citizenship (Canada) - British Expats

Category:Canadian Immigration : British Expat Wiki

Vulcanoid

For the issue of tying you & your partner together, Canada defines Common Law marriage as living together (& being able to prove it) for at least 12 months. If you have done that with a Canadian citizen/Permanent Resident, they can sponsor you under family class, and if you have done that with a non-Canadian who's moving to Canada (eg work permit, getting PR), you can move with them on their application.

Your bigger problem is that you haven't said how either of you qualify to emigrate to Canada. Have you looked into it at all? A family can normally only sponsor a very close relative (the most common categories are partner, and parents). An uncle can't just 'sponsor' their niece to move (unless NB has a very open family stream to their Provincial Nomination Programme?)

Snowy560

IEC is probably your best bet (to start with):

International Experience Canada – travel and work in Canada