Regulations Pertaining To Canadian Fiance Visa

The Canadian immigration law provides the Canadian citizens with a privilege where they can sponsor their fiance for a Canadian citizenship. In short, they have an option to sponsor their fiances immigration.

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The fiance is then provided with a Canadian fiance visa or Canadian immigrant visa. In this sense, the Canadian and the US visa regulations are similar.

The term 'fiance' is properly defined under the Canadian immigration visa regulations. In fact, in its Section 2, a fiance is defined as a "spouse", who is of the opposite sex to the person whom he/she is joined in marriage. A fiance is treated as a part of the family class, when it comes to the Canadian immigration visa regulations.

Section 4(3) of the Immigration Regulations, further states that a spouse who has entered into the matrimony just for attaining a Canadian immigrant visa and not to reside permanently with the other spouse is not included in the family class.

The regulations further states that the fiance has to satisfy some conditions to the visa officer. The fiance has to convince the visa officer that he intends to reside permanently with the sponsor after their marriage. He also has to convince the visa officer that he has not been engaged to the person just to gain immigration under the family class. Further the parties have to marry each other within a period of 90 days after the sponsored fiance is admitted into Canada.

They have to submit a copy of the marriage certificate to the case processing center in Mississauga within 180 days of the marriage.

In case if the fiance is not able to convince the visa officer about the validity of the engagement, the visa officer will not issue an immigrant visa to the fiance. There is a higher level of scrutiny in the sponsorship of a fiance as compared to the sponsorship of a spouse. This is because there is no evidence of marriage present in this case, which can prove the validity of their engagement of the relationship.

The engaged couple have to keep various documented proofs regarding the validity of the relationship. The evidence can be telephone bills, invitations, etc. In case if there is an arranged marriage, then its details also have to be provided.

The person sponsoring a fiance has to meet the low income cut off requirements, which is not the case with people who sponsor a spouse. Also, the fiance will have to submit a permanent residency application to an overseas visa office.

If the fiance and the sponsor meet all these conditions, then the fiance is issued a Canadian fiance visa. After this, both of them can live together in Canada as Canadian citizens.