To stay permanently in Canada as a permanent resident, also known as a landed immigrant, you will need to be sponsored by your husband. Your husband can begin the sponsorship process regardless of where you are. If you are in Canada when the sponsorship application was sent in, you can stay in Canada while waiting for it to be processed.

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At its heart, child marriage is rooted in gender inequality and the belief that girls and women are somehow inferior to boys and men. Child marriage is a complex issue. Poverty, lack of education, cultural practices, and insecurity fuel and sustain the practice. But drivers will vary from one community to the next and the practice may look different across regions and countries, even within the same country. In many communities where child marriage is practised, girls are not valued as much as boys — they are seen as a burden on their family.
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Bride price , bridewealth , [1] or bride token , is money , property , or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Bride price can be compared to dowry , which is paid to the groom, or used by the bride to help establish the new household, and dower , which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. Some cultures may practice both dowry and bride price simultaneously. Many cultures practiced bride pricing prior to existing records. The tradition of giving bride price is practiced in many Asian countries , the Middle East , parts of Africa and in some Pacific Island societies , notably those in Melanesia.
A dowry is a transfer of parental property, gifts, or money at the marriage of a daughter bride. While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom side or his family to the bride's parents, dowry is the wealth transferred from the bride's family to the groom or his family, ostensibly for the bride. Similarly, dower is the property settled on the bride herself, by the groom at the time of marriage, and which remains under her ownership and control. Dowries continue to be expected and demanded as a condition to accept a marriage proposal in some parts of the world, mainly in parts of Asia , Northern Africa and the Balkans. In some parts of the world, disputes related to dowry sometimes result in acts of violence against women , including killings and acid attacks. A dowry is the transfer of parental property to a daughter at her marriage i. This fund may provide an element of financial security in widowhood or against a negligent husband, and may eventually go to provide for her children. Anthropologist Jack Goody 's comparative study of dowry systems around the world utilizing the Ethnographic Atlas demonstrated that dowry is a form of inheritance found in the broad swath of Eurasian societies from Japan to Ireland that practice "diverging devolution", i. This practice differs from the majority of Sub-Saharan African societies that practice "homogenous inheritance" in which property is transmitted only to children of the same sex as the property holder. These latter African societies are characterized by the transmission of the " bride price ", the money, goods or property given by the groom or his family to the parents of the bride not the bride herself.