About to send in my application - comments wanted

[Swede]

First of all: Thanks for running such a fine forum! I've lurked here for a while and found lots of useful information.

Background info:
I'm male and Swedish and have been living with my Canadian sponsor/girlfriend since August 1st 2008. We're both in our mid twenties, university educated and we had a distance relationship for a while before I arrived and now that we've co-habited for over a year I'm going to apply for common-law residency outside Canada in London. Last year I was in Canada with a youth exchange work visa and now I'm on a six month visitor's visa.

Application info:
Aside from the required information I have the following proof of our relationship:

• Correspondence (mainly electronic) between the two of us before I came to Canada.
• Bus and train tickets for when she (while on exchange in Sweden) visited me in my home city.
• Receipt of an iPod that I bought for her (she still has it, so I think I could take a photo of her with said iPod?) as a gift at the above visit.
• Rental contracts in both our names since August 1st 2008.
• Some utilities bills in both our names.
• A receipt for our first trip, paid by me, flying us to London (UK) (her from Canada and me from Sweden) and from there to Canada. This was when I first arrived in the country.
• Pictures of the two of us from London (UK), Montréal and various locations in Ontario.
• A personal letter from either party about the other, explaining our feelings and dreams for the future.
• A letter from her parents, writing about the authenticity of our relationship.

Do you think this will do?
Regarding electronic correspondence, we have a few hundred e-mails from the past three years as well as more than two thousand pages of ICQ logs, covering the past four years, but I can't really send them all of that. Any ideas on how I could treat this information?
Also, any thoughts of applying outside of Canada in London?

Any comments are greatly appreciated. And good luck to you all!

[mitamata]

I had about 600 pages worth of chat logs. I ended up selecting one conversation for every month and printed those - came out to some 30 pages with the smallest readable font. Then I added a note explaining this is just a sample and there's plenty more where that came from if they want to see it all
As for emails, some people just take screenshots of the inbox containing the emails to show how many there were and then print out a couple of them to show what they were like.

Also, if you have any, try to include pictures of you with her family and/or friends. Always looks good when you can show other people in her life know about you. Though with living together, it's less of a factor.

Looks like a pretty solid application to me, good luck!

[Swede]

I had about 600 pages worth of chat logs. I ended up selecting one conversation for every month and printed those - came out to some 30 pages with the smallest readable font. Then I added a note explaining this is just a sample and there's plenty more where that came from if they want to see it all
As for emails, some people just take screenshots of the inbox containing the emails to show how many there were and then print out a couple of them to show what they were like.

Also, if you have any, try to include pictures of you with her family and/or friends. Always looks good when you can show other people in her life know about you. Though with living together, it's less of a factor.

Looks like a pretty solid application to me, good luck!

Thanks for your reply!

To print one conversation for each month makes sense. Thanks for the tip!