My boyfriend got a job in Quebec, Canada, and wanted to move here with me. He got his work visa through his company, but they couldn't get it it for me cause I was not his common-law wife. To become that you have to have lived together for 1 year. So I have been here for a couple of months now, and because I am not here legal, I can't do anything, I can't get a job, I can't get health care, I can't get a library card. I don't exist here officially, and therefore there are no resources avalable. But I am pregnant and I need health care. Also everybody speaks French here, and it is required to be bi-lingual for all the jobs I have seen. I can pay for it but since I can't work here, I don't want to spend the money I have since I can't make any money here. If I was written here, then French classes are basically free.
At this point, we have actually lived together for a year, and all my boyfriend has to do is call them and say that I am the common law wife now, which would entitle me to have some rights in Canada. But he won't do it, he thinks it is better if I go and live with my mother in Sweden. That sounds like hell to me, sit there and rot away with a baby in my belly belonging to a man that doesn't even want to claim me as his. I don't know what to do, I don't want to get an abortion. But how I am going to handle a whole pregnancy and baby without any support?
At this point, we have actually lived together for a year, and all my boyfriend has to do is call them and say that I am the common law wife now, which would entitle me to have some rights in Canada. But he won't do it, he thinks it is better if I go and live with my mother in Sweden. That sounds like hell to me, sit there and rot away with a baby in my belly belonging to a man that doesn't even want to claim me as his. I don't know what to do, I don't want to get an abortion. But how I am going to handle a whole pregnancy and baby without any support?