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Applied for Permanent Residence as the Common-Law Partner of the Man She Met on a Working Holiday|Ms. A

Date Posted:August 22, 2018

Last Updated:September 24, 2026

This is the case of Ms. A, who met a Canadian man during her working holiday and, through her employer’s introduction, asked Shiraishi VisaJP Canada to handle a work permit and then a Family Class permanent residence application as his common-law partner. Even though she temporarily returned to Japan to graduate from university, she received careful support and obtained permanent residence in approximately 12 months.

Visa Type / Immigration Category

Permanent Residence (Family Class)

Occupation / Job Title

N/A

Visa Status Before Application

Working Holiday Visa → Work Permit → Returned to Japan

Residence at the Time of Application

Japan

Duration from Application to Visa Approval

Approximately 12 months

Key Points from the Consultant

Consultant's Point

N/A

Client Comments

My Journey So Far

Ms. Shiraishi supported me all the way from my working holiday to a work permit and then to permanent residence.

Why did you decide to immigrate to Canada?

I first came to Canada after finishing my third year of university, on a leave of absence.

A Canadian man told me he liked me. At first, I was planning to go back to Japan after my working holiday, so I turned him down, but after seeing him keep trying for months, I started dating him three months before my working holiday ended.

What made you choose Shiraishi VisaJP Canada?

I absolutely did not want a long-distance relationship, so I begged the place I was working at the time to support me for a work permit, and my employer introduced me to Ms. Shiraishi.

What was the most memorable part of the process?

At the time, I was a university student with only part-time job experience, but she told me that it counted as proper work experience, and I obtained a work permit about six months after applying. I was able to work in Canada while the application was in progress, so I lived with him. If I had simply kept working in Canada on the work permit, everything would have been easy, but I really wanted to graduate from university, so I next started working toward permanent residence as a common-law partner.

While I was in Canada on the work permit, I consulted Ms. Shiraishi about permanent residence, lived in a way that met all the conditions for the application, gathered the required documents and applied. During that year and a half on the work permit, we lived together in Canada, and then I made it back to my university in Japan just in time, earned all my remaining credits in the second semester of my fourth year and graduated. After graduating, I worked part-time jobs in Japan until my permanent residence was approved. And since I really dislike long distance, he and I lived together in Japan, just as we had planned years before.

Then, just one year after applying, I successfully obtained permanent residence! On the way from working holiday to work permit to permanent residence, he and I were apart for only a few months! As someone who graduated from a university of foreign studies and had always dreamed of living in Canada, I cannot hide my surprise at how well everything went.

How was your experience using Shiraishi VisaJP Canada’s services?

Thank you for supporting me when I was anxious, since I had neither the age nor the work experience that other applicants had!

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