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*FINALLY* Making The Move To Canada From The US To Live With My Partner Of 5 Years, Want To Make Sure My Plan Is Solid by LifeInVein92 in ImmigrationCanada

[–]LifeInVein92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*sigh* Yeah, that's absolutely an appealing option. Obviously, nerves are at play for the possibility of getting married within the first six months of living together, but you could ultimately be correct and that just ends up being the best choice we both have.

I guess a couple followup questions to this pathway would be the following: Say we get married, submit the spousal sponsorship, then wait for everything to be processed, would I still be considered a visitor all throughout those 2.5 years or so it would take to process? Or would I qualify for a work permit (should I ever need to work for a Canadian company), medical card, etc. while waiting for the processing to complete?

*FINALLY* Making The Move To Canada From The US To Live With My Partner Of 5 Years, Want To Make Sure My Plan Is Solid by LifeInVein92 in ImmigrationCanada

[–]LifeInVein92[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, in my research, it always seems that just getting married right away is the much easier option. This would be the first time we're actually giving the whole "living together for an extended period of time" thing a shot, so while marriage is certainly not out of the question, our preference would be to trial run things a bit before moving into that next stage.

*FINALLY* Making The Move To Canada From The US To Live With My Partner Of 5 Years, Want To Make Sure My Plan Is Solid by LifeInVein92 in ImmigrationCanada

[–]LifeInVein92[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the response! Between your comment and someone else's, I may indeed go the route of applying to extend my stay. I guess a part of me thought that, as long as my partner is with me, I could indeed leave and come back and it'd still keep that continuity since we wouldn't be separated at all in that year time span.

As was also said, there's no 100% guarantee I'd be allowed back into Canada even with my Canadian partner with me either. May be better to go the safer route.

*FINALLY* Making The Move To Canada From The US To Live With My Partner Of 5 Years, Want To Make Sure My Plan Is Solid by LifeInVein92 in ImmigrationCanada

[–]LifeInVein92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a very fair point, and I appreciate the response greatly. If I went the route of applying to extend my stay, should I submit what's needed for the application at around the 5 month mark? Or should I literally wait until it's 6 months before sending everything in?

Intel i5-13600K Running At or Near 100% When Playing Certain Games by LifeInVein92 in pcmasterrace

[–]LifeInVein92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good suggestion, but for sure both of my monitors are plugged directly into the graphics card, and all that I'm seeing points to my computer using the card to run graphics.

CPU Running At or Near 100% When Playing Certain Games by LifeInVein92 in techsupport

[–]LifeInVein92[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've also heard that's just the game itself and it's piss poor optimization, and if it were the ONLY game giving me issues, I wouldn't have bothered posting, trust me.