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- CommentAuthoradcomeau
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
I met my fiancee online and we have been together for almost two years now. He tried unsuccessfully to come to see me in Canada in October 2008 (I'm a CAN citizen and he's a US citizen). He was turned around at the boarder due to a DWI conviction in Texas in Nov. 2005. He has nothing else on his record, paid all his fines and did not have to do any time. I then decided to make the journey myself to meet him. I traveled to Arkansas in Jan. 09 and spent 6 wonderful months (was staying as a visitor) with him. He asked me to marry him shortly before then. However, I needed to come back home due to the fact that I almost overstayed my visitor status.
My fiancee ended getting laid off from his job about a month later. I am trained as a RCA here in BC and was offered a job making $18/hr at a local care facility. I decided to stay here as I could live with my mother and help to support my fiancee as he's now working part time as we wait out the remaining months until he can apply for rehabilitation (I am under the assumption he will be eligible to apply in November). However, things aren't going so well for him with work. It's been very difficult for us to be apart all of this time but i can't leave my job to come stay with him and he is inadmissible to enter Canada. It's also becoming very difficult on me financially to have to support him from another country.
We both want to live in Canada permanently. I have no desire to live in the US and my family lives here. I had done my research and found that he *could* be eligible for a TRP. He could apply for a TRP and then for rehabilitation and then permanent residence. However, we do not want to wait 6 months before he can come across. If we have to wait that long, we would be better off waiting the extra 2 months and applying for his rehabilitation while he is still in the US. I have read on some other forums (and called the Canada immigration call center to clarify) that it is possible to bring the entire application to a port of entry where they could make a decision in a matter of a couple hours. This would seem like a great idea (and we are planning to try this)however he is in Arkansas, which is quite far from BC. If they decided to turn him around again, it would be quite the trip back and neither of us wants to go through that again. How likely are they to actually process the application there? I've read that although the officers at the port of entry are able to, in most cases, they still refer you to apply at the consulate. Is this true?
I had asked the CIC office what our chances are of him getting approved for a TRP but of course, they can't tell me that information. They also told me that in order to come across the boarder, if he was approved, he would also have to prove that he could financially support himself while he was here at the cost of $50 a day. I was told that it didn't matter if either he or myself had that money, but he would need to provide a bank statement showing that either of us had the funds to do so. At $50 a day, for 8 months the total comes to about $12,000. Neither one of us has that amount of money just sitting in our banks. We are still both in our mid-20s. I do work regularly however and make about $2500 a month I just can't save much due to the fact that i have been paying his rent and some of his bills on top of my own.
Basically my question is...Is there a better way to approach this situation? Is there some other process we can try that I haven't already mentioned? Also, has anyone found themselves in a similar situation financially while trying to get a TRP? If so, what did you do?
If anyone could shed ANY light on my current predicament, I would be eternally grateful. I'm at my wits end and am lucky our relationship is strong enough to handle all of this! -
- CommentAuthorGuest
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2010
Just a thought.. Instead of trying for a 8 month long visa, he can mention lesser duration of stay in his application for TRP. Once in Canada he can try to renew his TRP status to longer duration and may be you can show that you're supporting him with food and shelter hence no expense on his part.
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