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Dear Mr. Ingram and experts,
Thanks for your informative website--as a Canadian living in the US I've found out from the information there that I probably haven't been doing my taxes right... I will follow up on that later, but for now I have a couple of immigration questions:
Im a Canadian citizen and I've been living in Boston for 6 years while I do my Ph.D. Next year I hope to complete my thesis, I have no teaching duties at Harvard and they're giving me a stipend to live on while I write, with no requirement as to where I live.
Since the stipend will go farther in Canada, and the year after that I will be applying for jobs that are mainly in the States, it seems like my last chance for a while and a good opportunity to live near my parents in Montreal. So I plan to come back to Canada in September and rent an apartment while I write my thesis.
My girlfriend is American and she would like to accompany me to Montreal and live there with me for the year. I understand she can come for 6 months as a temporary visitor, and then apply for an extension. Will they normally grant a 6-month extension? If not, will it be sufficient for her to leave Canada for a week or so and then reenter the country for another 6 months as temporary visitor?
I understand it might be possible, if necessary, for us to state an intent of returning to Canada to live and for me to sponsor her for immigration purposes. We're not married, and though we've basically lived together for a year we've also maintained separate addresses so I guess she
can't be my common-law partner, but I see there is another category of "conjugal partner". How does one establish conjugal partnership in the eyes of immigration law? If we got engaged would that change anything?
There is also a chance that I get a job in Canada, in which case we would have to think about her getting permanent residency and citizenship. If we plan to get married one day down the line is that a fairly automatic thing?
Lastly, we would like to find out the options for her being able to work casually in Canada. She trained as a musician but there is not much chance of getting steady work in that field; basically she has been doing casual
work (secretarial; waiting tables etc.) while we figure out what to do next. Will it be possible, assuming someone in Montreal agrees to make her a written offer of a casual job, to return to the border with the paperwork and obtain a work permit from the Canadian officials?
Many thanks for any insight you might have as to our situation. I am finding it very difficult to get a trustworthy opinion at the moment.
All the best --JXXXXX XXXXXX
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david ingram replies
You may return to Canada with no problem. Your girlfriend can likely visit you with no problem if you state you are in Canada temporarily and will be returning to the USA in a year. However, any person at the border can cancel this supposed right.
Your paperwork must be impeccable.
The right to be here as a visitor will NOT give her the right to work. For that you will have to sponsor her as a fiancee and actually marry her or marry her and sponsor her as a spouse.
There are NO guarantees. I will send you a bunch of the applications for Spouse, etc. for you to look at.
I sent this home to get a look at it and will send you forms from the office.
David Ingram of the CEN-TA REALTY Group
US / Canada / Mexico tax and working Visa Specialists
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