Hi All
I am looking for some help on immigration as i have tried several routes but no success yet. Well 3years ago i got conformation that i had a job offer from a company in Toronto so i planned to emigrate with my family to Canada, my partner and my 2 kids went over first as we wanted to locate to Calgary and thats where they have been for the past 3years. I was going to work in Toronto for the first year then locate to Calgary through the company which had offered me employment. The bad news arrived after my partner and children where already in Calgary for 6 months when the Canadian goverment decline my application for a work permit due to my lack of skills. I have tried work permit,college course(very expensive) and family sponsorship(Too long a process). I would be very grateful for any help as i have been separated from my partner and my children for the past 3years please can anyone help please. Thank You

How did your wife and kids move to Calgary for the last 3 years? Does she have any kind of visa or work permit or anything else allowing her to remain there for so long?

andymck2007...Try posting this in the Immigration part of the forum..for the Att of Andrew Miller...Best of Luck

hi Wizzard
Yes my partner was born in Canada and has Canadian citizenship.

Have you considered spousal immigration? Try this group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canadian_immigration/

Also, investigate PNP (Provincial Nominee Programme). Some of the provinces are more flexible than others about qualifications.


GOOD LUCK!!

CLARE

Hi Clare B.C
Thank you so much for your reply i will start to look into these avenues

I'm very confused by this. Just to make sure I have the facts straight - your partner is Canadian. I'm assuming that your children were with your partner, so they, also, are Canadian, hence why they were able to up and move over to Canada without a problem.

Why didn't you just get your partner to sponsor you in the first place? Any official you would have asked would have told you this, it takes about 8 months (my husband even asked the CIC what method would be fastest, and they told him spousal sponsorship outright).

I could be mistaken, but I don't think you qualify for a common-law sponsorship anymore - I believe one of the requirements was that you had to have lived together for 12 consecutive months before applying, which you haven't if she's been in Canada. If you were married that might be different, but you aren't, so you've lost common-law status.

After 3 years I think you're going to have to make the choice to either live apart or have them return to the UK, particularly if you've done nothing in the 3 years to improve your skills/chances of applying, and if you get married now it would look highly suspicious. I don't mean to be so blunt here, but I think you're screwed.

Cov,
does that mean if he comes over on a holdiay visa stays 6 months then they all go to England to live for 6 months he'll get the commonlaw status back?

Another important aspect of the common-law partner sponsorship is showing that you have combined affairs through things like joint leases, joint mortgages, joint bank accounts, joint bills, etc... The actual living together isn't just enough.

I agree that you should have gone the common-law sponsorship route from the start, but that's all in the past. After three years of living apart, it's time for some tough decisions.

In my opinion, marriage and spousal sponsorship would be the simplest route and would not appear suspicious, but understandable - something a loving, committed couple would do to remain together. Don't spend more time looking for other, more difficult routes when you have the easiest and quickest one right before you.

The other option, like cov mentioned above, is to bring them back to the UK.