@Steven **************

whelp, definitely confused. He did talk about in order to get the marriage visa I needed to return on a non o.

@Steve ******

and the guy could be wrong or province specific or new... I can only speak to what he told me today.

@Steven **************

it feels pedantic, but I do get lost easily. I believe you get a visa based on marriage and then extend that visa. Am I wrong? Also, if I leave and come back does it mitigate the need for the 90 day check in?

@Steve ******

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@Brandon ***********

I haven't had a reasonable immigration offer say anything ever. I had a crazy lady make a scene once and her supervisor intervened and told her to cut it out. The whole "not living here on short term visas" thing is, as far as I can tell an artifact of conversations here. I haven't seen it on the immigration website or on forms at the office. An immigration official hasn't spoken to me about it. I don't want want to break the spirit of the law, I prefer to operate in good faith, but other than "no more than 2 land entries a year" this is just tribal knowledge based on anecdotes. Today the guy told me about the family extensions AFTER we discussed that I was planning to move to the marriage visa.

It's good information and I'm glad I have it, but I am not convinced this is unscrupulous.

@Brandon ***********

To be clear he is antagonizing me here...

The TONE seems to be related to the frequency of entry. And it's such a wonky gray area anyway. I'm definitely prepared to do the marriage visa. But I might just see if this raises eyebrows first.

Brandon I suspect I had some mini strokes in my early 40s and some types of data retention just went from normal to nil. I simple can't hold some types of information anymore. The search functions are for shit and this is a community to ask questions and talk about things. If my questions bother you block me. I don't need "guy with encyclopedic knowledge of esoteric shit" to make me feel bad as I do that really well on my own thanks.

@Lynnette ******

I leave periodically for work ANYWAY. Before getting hitched the frequency that I needed to leave was greater than that required by work. It's probably still better to do the marriage but this is new data for me.

@Lynnette ******

what visa is he on? My understanding is that with the marriage visa you still need to report every 90 days as well as extend annually

@Erwin *******

oh, non o 90 days is something I don't even know what it is so I'm sorry if I glossed over .

@Erwin *******

I am not saying you are wrong- only that we specifically asked about this today and we were told you could do both every entry. The guy could be wrong, the rules could change, this stuff is more art than science- but he was very explicit.