Immigrate My Love To Canada So We Can Be Together

My name is Jill and my beautiful wife Erin is trying to immigrate to Canada so we can finally be together.

We met 10 years ago in university when both of us signed up to be part of the chorus for an opera where we ended up singing the same part. We became the best of friends and we were inseparable. By the time we graduated four years later we could not imagine living our lives apart!

That was when we realized that we meant more to each other than just being friends. Graduation felt like the end of the world. We spent the night before graduation sleeplessly holding each other instead of celebrating, terrified of the inevitable separation, unable to see a future apart and equally unable to see a path back together.

We graduated, and Erin left the next day. When I left a couple of days later, I cried or slept the whole way home, all 4000 kilometers.

We promised each other that we would find our way back together. I wasn’t sure how that was going to happen, but Erin promised we would and I had to believe her. I had no idea when or how, but I wanted to be living with Erin one day and to build a life together.

We have dated long distance for all of these years since then. Visiting each other whenever we could. Always missing each other desperately when our visits had to come to an end.

Then on New Year's Eve 2022 we both proposed during one of our visits. After that we decided to submit a sponsorship application, since we knew we wanted to be married and together and our lives had finally stabilized enough to make it possible. We worked with a licensed immigration consultant to get the best chance at success we could have.

Unfortunately, Erin was rejected.

This blow was emphasized by it coming during the holiday season. Days before Christmas this last year, and just a few days more before the anniversary of our engagement. Emphasized further because we weren't able to be together for either because Erin was supposed to be staying in the States while the application was being processed and I couldn’t get time off to visit for the holidays.

It was hard to deal with the disappointment and frustration of having all that work and money that we put into an application just rejected. Even though we had a strong case. Erin felt like she was just a name on a list that someone decided could be put in the reject pile, and I could only talk with and commiserate with her about it over the phone; even though all I wanted was to be able to hold her while we watched all of our hopes and dreams crumble in the face of their rejection, and while we pulled ourselves back together to try again.

We've spoken with our immigration advisor, and have a new plan. We are going to apply again, but this time as a spousal sponsorship. We had always planned to get married, all this is just changing when.

We got married at the end of March and we couldn't be more excited to finally be together permanently! But in order for that to happen we need to submit another immigration application, and the trouble is we spent all our available funds on the first application and have nothing left for a second.

The total we will need for our consultant is $5000 and $1800 in submission fees for the steep total of $6800.

All we want is to be able to be together. Our path together has been a little winding but with a little help we should be able to finally get our happy ending. Any help at all would be so deeply appreciated.

Thank you so much for reading, and I wish you well in your life,

Jill