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Hello everyone,
I am a mixed Canadian-Egyptian born in NB, Canada. My family moved to Egypt when I was young so I am not longer a Canadian resident, having lived abroad for the past 15 years or so. I went abroad to Malaysia to study and in November of 2015 I met my now-husband who is from Pakistan. We were together since January 2016 and took an apartment with both of our names around September 2016 where we lived together until October 2018.
It was then that my study visa expired and I went back to Egypt to discuss our marriage with my parents. He visited with his mom and we got engaged, January 2019. In March, I went to Pakistan for two weeks and we got married (Pakistani certificate). Only my mother could make it, since the dates where shifting based on our limited finances.
After that I went to China for three months to work, we have plane tickets of meet ups in that time. I was trying to secure work for him in China but it proved difficult and I flew to Egypt to regroup and find new work. Now you're all caught up, and I would really appreciate any advice!
My Husband and I realize living internationally is hard when we cannot take steps together. We've now been apart for 9 months and I see the most beneficial solution is to get him a Canadian citizenship so we may take steps together in the future. Spousal Sponsorship should take around one year, so I have the following questions:
Any help and direction on these issues would be so helpful. I wish to apply without an agent as I am currently financially limited and am not sure if the agents are just telling me what I wish to hear so I hire them. Thank you so much to the people answering questions on this site! Apologies if the questions are out of order, a lot of them are dependent on each other and I do not know how to make it more understandable.
I am a mixed Canadian-Egyptian born in NB, Canada. My family moved to Egypt when I was young so I am not longer a Canadian resident, having lived abroad for the past 15 years or so. I went abroad to Malaysia to study and in November of 2015 I met my now-husband who is from Pakistan. We were together since January 2016 and took an apartment with both of our names around September 2016 where we lived together until October 2018.
It was then that my study visa expired and I went back to Egypt to discuss our marriage with my parents. He visited with his mom and we got engaged, January 2019. In March, I went to Pakistan for two weeks and we got married (Pakistani certificate). Only my mother could make it, since the dates where shifting based on our limited finances.
After that I went to China for three months to work, we have plane tickets of meet ups in that time. I was trying to secure work for him in China but it proved difficult and I flew to Egypt to regroup and find new work. Now you're all caught up, and I would really appreciate any advice!
My Husband and I realize living internationally is hard when we cannot take steps together. We've now been apart for 9 months and I see the most beneficial solution is to get him a Canadian citizenship so we may take steps together in the future. Spousal Sponsorship should take around one year, so I have the following questions:
- Is it possible to submit online in my situation of living separately from my husband? If I have to do it physically, can my relative do it?
- Do I have to go in Canada to process the application to prove that I intend to live there while sponsoring him?
- If so, how long would I have to be there to be able to use being there as proof before submitting the application? And would I have to stay the year and work there, or could I continue to work abroad (where I can possibly live with my husband in the meantime).
- If applying myself from Canada (Outland sponsorship, right?) would I need to apply in my home province? Any province?
- How much money is needed to prove I can support my spouse? Is it required in bank? Or a work contract? Are bank statements needed? He can also work, but we would not have a job lined up at the time of application of course.
Any help and direction on these issues would be so helpful. I wish to apply without an agent as I am currently financially limited and am not sure if the agents are just telling me what I wish to hear so I hire them. Thank you so much to the people answering questions on this site! Apologies if the questions are out of order, a lot of them are dependent on each other and I do not know how to make it more understandable.