best way to prove your relationship and self employed history

[brettwest]

Any thoughts and advice on how best to prove the following:

My 9 year relationship with my girlfriend.
We have loads of bills with our names on, a mortgage, statements from holiday companies we have been with...would that be enough, does anyone know if its worth getting a statuary declaration to prove this? My Boss can confirm this is a genuine relationship, would that be enough?

My self employed business of 5 years.
I have records and invoices to clients, Inland Revenue tax payment statements, i understand the IR can also send you a letter to say how long you've been self employed for. Im mainly wondering how i can prove what my self employed work actually is?

[rjessome]

Any thoughts and advice on how best to prove the following:

My 9 year relationship with my girlfriend.
We have loads of bills with our names on, a mortgage, statements from holiday companies we have been with...would that be enough, does anyone know if its worth getting a statuary declaration to prove this? My Boss can confirm this is a genuine relationship, would that be enough?

My self employed business of 5 years.
I have records and invoices to clients, Inland Revenue tax payment statements, i understand the IR can also send you a letter to say how long you've been self employed for. Im mainly wondering how i can prove what my self employed work actually is?

What class of immigration are you thinking about?  Is one of you Canadian and sponsoring the other?  Or are you applying as Federal Skilled worker?  You will need the Statutory Declaration of Common Law relationship no matter what class you apply in.  As far as your self-employment is concerned (this would be appicable to the FSW class) you could try to get letters from clients describing the scope of work you performed to show that it fits under the NOC code for the job.  The other proof you have is good and these letters would supplement it.