I am just curious, for the people who are from a different country as your SO, how did you close the distance? Did you get married, go to school in their country (vice versa) and who moved?
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I am extremely interested in hearing the answers for that! Especially wondering on what type of Canadian VISAs... I have spent way too much time on the government website...First met online: June, 2010
First met in person: August, 2011 (See the story of our first visit)
Second visit: December, 2011 (Christmas and New Years together!)
Third visit together: August, 2012
Fourth visit: December 2012 (Christmas and New Years together!)
Fifth visit: July 2013 (2 weeks here in Canada)
Sixth visit: December 2013 (Christmas and New Years together again and I finally met his mother!)
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There are quite a few similar threads that would be worth a search
I'm from Australia and my SO is from Canada. Initially we closed the distance by me working in Canada for over a year on a working holiday program visa, then later we applied for a visa for him to move with me to Australia. We did get married, but both our countries allow common law/ Defacto partner visas, so being wed didn't make it easier or anything. We just got married because it was time to do so.
We both moved, and consider ourselves internationally nomadic. We'll go back to Canada in four years, on a family migration visa.Happily married to the little Canadian boy I never thought I'd meet in person
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You can have your SO move to canada on common law? so say if my SO came here to work for a year or so, then he could get a visa for common law?Originally posted by Zephii View PostThere are quite a few similar threads that would be worth a search
but both our countries allow common law/ Defacto partner visas.Comment
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yes! That was my plan A... but the work visas didn't seem very feasible in our case...Originally posted by Sabbi696 View PostFirst met online: June, 2010
First met in person: August, 2011 (See the story of our first visit)
Second visit: December, 2011 (Christmas and New Years together!)
Third visit together: August, 2012
Fourth visit: December 2012 (Christmas and New Years together!)
Fifth visit: July 2013 (2 weeks here in Canada)
Sixth visit: December 2013 (Christmas and New Years together again and I finally met his mother!)
Next visit: Unknown... for now but coming up ASAPComment
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I'm from the USA my SO is from Costa Rica. He came and "lived" with me for 6 months on his tourist visa. Then I moved to CR because it was easier for me to get a job and residency here. We'll soon be married and apply for a spouse visa to move back up to the USA.Comment
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You sure can, you just have to prove you've lived together in a genuine relationship for a year or longer. It doesn't seem to matter which country that year takes place in or if you move during that time.Originally posted by Sabbi696 View Post
But this tends to be the main problem. Work visas are hard to get. So you either need to be from a country that has a working holiday visa program with Canada, or you need to have enough savings to live abroad for a year and not work. OR go in on a study visa.Originally posted by Verojoon View PostHappily married to the little Canadian boy I never thought I'd meet in personComment
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Yea I was going to try and get a working holiday visa after I am done of college in june..but as far as I know they don't offer them to the states from canada..and vice versaOriginally posted by Verojoon View PostComment
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I am just curious about if you went and lived abroad for a year without working..how would you be legal? there isn't really a visa just go live somewhere unfortunately!Originally posted by Zephii View Post
Oh and sorry for the similar thread thing, I done a quick search and didn't really find anything.Comment
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You'd get a tourist visa, obviouslyOriginally posted by Sabbi696 View Post
I'm not sure what tourist visas Canada offers however, because Aussies can go there for up to six months without any kind of visa so I never had to look into it. I know Oz has year long tourist visas, so I'm sure other countries offer them too.Happily married to the little Canadian boy I never thought I'd meet in personComment
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The US government actually just introduced one this past year for recent graduates but I can't remember the name!Originally posted by Sabbi696 View Post
SWAP offers one for summer work in the USA. See details here.Comment
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I am Algerian and he is Finnish and the only way for us to close the distance (one way or the other) is to get married and apply for a residence permit on the basis of family ties. So we'll be doing that eventually.I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me - Pink FloydComment
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If I am to move to Europe, I will probably need to get married and get a permit as TwoThree said.
If she wanted to move here, we could trial it out on a Working Holiday Visa and try to apply for a defacto visa.Comment
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This might sound a bit far-fetched, but bare with me...Work.
I work for a company based in Finland, granted I worked here before knowing my guy, but still. For those of you not yet employed, or looking to make a change, you can try researching companies with a global presence and an office local to the country you want to move to and see about getting a job there. It doesn't mean they'll just up and transfer you, but after some time and proving yourself as worthy, you could get a shot at it. I realize this isn't the most sure or practical idea, but for anyone wanting to move without getting hitched first, it might be worth trying.
So far, and I don't think I've mentioned this at all here, we've had 2 opportunities at our company. He could have come here to fill an open position, and there is a manager in another department in our Helsinki office who offered me a place on her team. No, neither of us are going anywhere right now
He does not want to live in the US, and I've still got responsibilities here for a while longer. Anyway, it's at least another avenue you can try if everything else seems impossible.
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Our plan A is for me to move to Germany for 6-12 months under a student visa.
I am done with my undergrad studies, have recently finished a postgraduate course, and I am currently looking for a job in my home country. He on the other side, is also done with his studies and has a very well paid job he loves. That said, at the moment I have more freedom to move and am willing to do so.
We would like to get married, but before doing so we consider it important to live together for some time, for me to learn the language; not just to increase the chances to land a job in the future, but because it will make everything else easier (communication with the locals, adaptation, etc) and well, the 6-12 months living there will be also used to find out if I see myself settling there and calling it home.
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