Getting married

[Daz123]

Hello

I am a UK citizen. My girlfriend is canadian but currently living here in the UK. We have discussed moving to Canada and both agreed we should go. Obviously there is no problem for her but there is for me.

We haven't been living together for the minimum 1 year to be able to apply for sponsorship of common law spouse so the other option is to apply for a skilled worker which will take about 2 years.

We have in the past talked about marriage in general. Does anyone know if we got married would we be able to apply for immigration that way or do we have to be married for a certain amount of time?

Any help would be great.

[Kayalami]

AFAIK there is no stated minium time requirement for marriage under the IRPA (Immigration Act) but such must be evaluated against fraudelent marriage applications. Review family sponsorship on www.cic.gc.ca - I would take this route as the skilled worker class backlog is now head on. Federal court Class settlement put back circa 130K applicants into an already stretched system. London is currently quoting 36 months from AOR to final visa issuance...I expect this to grow unless the points cut off is raised to 80. With a minority government and as a yet to be determined Federal election date (anticipated by Spring 2006) I expect the latter like Snow in the Sahara.