Moving back to Canada with boyfriend after divorce

[mckomet]

I was born in Canada.
My father failed to follow through with my American citizenship. Technically I am here illegally.
I'm about to be divorced.
I have three kids.

I am wanting to move back to Canada as I fear every day that I may lose my job and not be able to find anything else. My soon to be ex husband is threatening to take the house and cause me to lose my job.
My whole family, save my father, is in Canada.


My boyfriend wants to move with me.
He only has a HS diploma.
We were looking at family class sponsorship.

The conjugal classification.
We've not been able to actually live together based on our parenting agreement which is on file with the court.
And my divorce not being final.

Would that work?
Could we apply while we're in Canada?
Would he have to wait until his application is approved before he could work?

I'm at a loss as to which steps we need to take.

Or if we should call and speak to someone.
I assume it would be an immigration lawyer in Canada.

 

[zardoz]

I was born in Canada.
My father failed to follow through with my American citizenship. Technically I am here illegally.
I'm about to be divorced.
I have three kids.

I am wanting to move back to Canada as I fear every day that I may lose my job and not be able to find anything else. My soon to be ex husband is threatening to take the house and cause me to lose my job.
My whole family, save my father, is in Canada.


My boyfriend wants to move with me.
He only has a HS diploma.
We were looking at family class sponsorship.

The conjugal classification.
We've not been able to actually live together based on our parenting agreement which is on file with the court.
And my divorce not being final.

Would that work?
Could we apply while we're in Canada?
Would he have to wait until his application is approved before he could work?

I'm at a loss as to which steps we need to take.

Or if we should call and speak to someone.
I assume it would be an immigration lawyer in Canada.

I can pretty much guarantee that conjugal will not work for you. There is no legal or immigiration BARRIER to you getting married after your divorce or leaving your husband and qualifying as common-law.

 

[canadianwoman]

Conjugal won't work. Your boyfriend can come to Canada as a visitor and stay with you. Once your divorce is final, you can get married; or, you two can live together for one continuous year. After either, you can sponsor him.

Once he is either married to you, or your common-law partner, you could sponsor him inland or outland. Outland is generally very fast for Americans, and he can stay in Canada as a visitor while he waits. With inland he can apply for an open work permit, which he would get about 4 months after applying. Note that applying outland is generally much faster than inland, and he might get his PR in 5 or 6 months outland.