| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
|
 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: Are you a Canadian married to a Korean? |
 |
|
If so, what did you have to go through (legally speaking). I understand the whole registration process, but after that seems a bit difficult.
I was checking out Canada's immigration stuff ... seems really complicated to get your Korean spouse into Canada but easy for us to live in Korea.
Just wondering what your experiences were. Thanks |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Why would it be so difficult to get your Korean spouse into Canada? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Actually, the amount of red tape that is on the Canadian immi site is a bit daunting. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Homer
Guest
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
You will have to sponsor your wife in order for her to have a realistic chance of getting a permant resident visa in any reasonable amount of time.
If you sponsor your wife, it takes 8-10 months and she gets residency. You are then resonsible for her for 3 years (more in certain provinces).
It is not that conplicated and you can complete the entire process from Korea before you move to Canada.
It will cost you about 2000 CAD total (maybe more) and you will need various documents translated from the Korean.
Your wife needs a medical examination, a police certificate (which certifies she has no criminal record), various family documents and you need to fill out a spousal sponsor application.
You send all your stuff to Manilla in the Pillipines since this is the processing center for Canadian immigration in asia.
It could take 8 months or 12 depending on processing times and if you did not forget any documents. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Derrek wrote: |
| Why would it be so difficult to get your Korean spouse into Canada? |
She would be able to get in without any problems, but working "residing" takes a bit more work. As someone said, lots of red tape. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Homer wrote: |
You will have to sponsor your wife in order for her to have a realistic chance of getting a permant resident visa in any reasonable amount of time.
If you sponsor your wife, it takes 8-10 months and she gets residency. You are then resonsible for her for 3 years (more in certain provinces).
It is not that conplicated and you can complete the entire process from Korea before you move to Canada.
It will cost you about 2000 CAD total (maybe more) and you will need various documents translated from the Korean.
Your wife needs a medical examination, a police certificate (which certifies she has no criminal record), various family documents and you need to fill out a spousal sponsor application.
You send all your stuff to Manilla in the Pillipines since this is the processing center for Canadian immigration in asia.
It could take 8 months or 12 depending on processing times and if you did not forget any documents. |
Thanks for the info Homer ... couple things though. First, when sponsoring someone for residency, does Canada expect you to be financialy stable?
Secondly, you mentioned starting the process while in Korea. It's my understanding that before the wedding day a lot of work needs to get done at the embassy (and at her gu office) to help with having the wedding recognized, but in regards to residency, that would all have to start after the actual wedding, no? Also, do I need to be residing in Canada to sponsor her? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Homer
Guest
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:48 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: |
| Thanks for the info Homer ... couple things though. First, when sponsoring someone for residency, does Canada expect you to be financialy stable? |
In some provinces they will do a financial check on you to make sure you can support your wife. In others, they do not do this (Quebec for example).
| Quote: |
| Secondly, you mentioned starting the process while in Korea. It's my understanding that before the wedding day a lot of work needs to get done at the embassy (and at her gu office) to help with having the wedding recognized, but in regards to residency, that would all have to start after the actual wedding, no? Also, do I need to be residing in Canada to sponsor her? |
The wedding does not get recognized...the wedding certificate does  .
You go to her gu office and get the proper paperwork and then take all of that to the Embassy or consulate near you in Korea. They will look it over and stamp it. That takes care of it. For us way back in 1999 it took one day for the Gu office and one day for the consulate in Busan.
You do not have to wait until the wedding to apply for residency but it would help your application be processed faster.
Finally you do need to be residing in Canada to sponsor her but you will have to show you plan on doing so. She cannot get her residency visa until you guys actually set foot in Canada and live there. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
astroboyfan
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:08 am Post subject: |
|
|
``edited for not reading the question well enough``
Last edited by astroboyfan on Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:55 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
canadian_in_korea
Joined: 20 Jun 2004
Location: South Korea
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:50 am Post subject: |
|
|
[quote="Homer"]
| Quote: |
| Thanks for the info Homer ... couple things though. First, when sponsoring someone for residency, does Canada expect you to be financialy stable? |
In some provinces they will do a financial check on you to make sure you can support your wife. In others, they do not do this (Quebec for example).[quote]
Are you sure about this? My friend is planning on going home to Quebec, it appears in the sponsorship forms that she must make a minimum salary in canada before they will allow her to sponsor her husband. I'm living in Nova Scotia, I called immigration and they told me that to sponsor a spouse there is no minimum (a child or parents there is a minimum). Her exact words were, 'in fact you can be a full time student and still sponsor your husband, you don't need a job if you have a thick bank account'...now what they consider thick, I'm not sure. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
anae
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: cowtown
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
To sponsor a spouse you have to show your income, but you do not have to make a minimum amount. This process is about 4 months for "uncomplicated" situations. You may have to show proof of your relationship eg. photos of dating, letters, shared accounts, etc.
You will have to demonstrate that you plan to go back and actually reside in Canada by the time your spouse's visa is ready.
You can file for both sponsorship and the landed visa in Seoul (since the fall 2000). Once you begin the process, your spouse must stay out of Canada until it is complete. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Homer
Guest
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
|
|
My friend Jeff (montrealer) went back to Canada with his Korean wife in 2004. He sponsored her and had no income figure to provide.
That is where I got the Quebec information. His sponsorship agreement is to be responsible for his wife for 3 years. She is a permanent resident of Canada now and they live in Montreal.
He did not need to prove income. They did have substantial savings however. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
anae
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: cowtown
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Three years whoa! I had to sign up for 10.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
|
| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| anae wrote: |
| Three years whoa! I had to sign up for 10. |
Ontario might be 10. All those idiots who bring over mail order brides, abuse them, and then find out when they bolt they're on the hook! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
vixen nomad
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Korea
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| If you have kids it can take much longer. A friend of mine that married and had a kid with an Equadorian waited about a year and a half for them to finally come over to Canada. Apparently they had to do all sorts of blood tests, and immigration had DNA tests done to make sure the kid was in fact both of theirs before allowing her and his son into Canada....A ton of red tape! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Hyalucent
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: British North America
|
| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
For couples without kids, the lady on the phone basically said they only cared that you weren't on welfare.
Proving financial status was my worry since I started a business after coming home and after all the start-up costs, I was still technically posting a loss for the business in 2004. Also, since I was overseas so long, it was about 4 years since I'd paid any taxes at all which made the Option C printout (financial status brief) from Revenue Canada impossible, not to mention creating some interesting phone convos. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
