I have some questions about moving to Canada, hopefully you can answer to me ^^ At the moment I am in Italy, but I have

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I am sorry to hear of this difficult situation.

Have you been living with your girlfriend as a common-law spouse for over one year?

You can move to Canada because you are a Canadian citizen. Your girlfriend may be able to enter as a visitor for two months. It is possible that she can do that because she has proof that she'll only stay there for two months. But if you want to sponsor her for permanent residency status you have to either be common law spouses for a year at least or you have to marry her.

But, you will also have the problem of the locked border and it is possible for her to accompany you as a visitor if you can show You have been in an exclusive dating relationship for at least one year. Otherwise you have to marry her before she can enter during this time.

Does that clarify the law?

She can likely enter as a visitor for two months because she can show her employment contract. If you get married and remain inside of Canada while the application is being processed that will work but if you leave she won't be able to re-enter.

She can but she has to leave Canada to get a work permit unless you're sponsoring her as your spouse. Then she would be able to get an open work permit from inside of Canada.

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No there isn't.

That truly doesn't make any sense to me.

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