Hi people
1. I realise that lately the topic of conditional visa for sponsored spouses is becoming more and more popular. I don't really understand how the whole things work. But my best understanding is that if the sponsored spouse has only been in a relationship with the sponsor for 2 years or less, then the sponsored spouse will get a conditional sponsorship, which means that after landing in Canada, they have to be in the marriage for 2 years, before finally a permanent resident visa is granted to the person being sponsored. Am I correct?
So my question is: how do we even prove that the relationship is 2 years or more? When a man asks a girl to be his girlfriend, very often that's done face to face, or at least over the phone, so how do they show a written/physical proof of the exact date they started dating??! Yes there may be other possible proofs such as written letters, emails, photos, phone call logs, etc. But the question remains: how do we show the CIC, that the exact date on which the couple got together, ROMANTICALLY, was in fact 2 years prior to the sponsorship application?!
When an immigration officer is deciding whether or not to give conditional sponsorship to the sponsored spouse, I just think that it's not that easy for him/her (the officer) to prove that the couple has been in the relationship for 2 years (or more) by just looking at photos, letters, phone logs, etc (because not only romantic couples take those things....friends can also take photos together, write letters, call each other....right?!)
2. According to a website called Canada Gazette:
"Following public town hall meetings and online consultations on marriages of convenience held in fall 2010, notice is hereby given that Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is soliciting written comments from all interested parties on a proposal to amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to introduce a specified period of conditional permanent residence for spouses and partners sponsored as members of the family class or spouse or common-law partner in Canada class under subsection 13(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). This proposed measure would apply to spouses and partners who have been in a relationship with their sponsor for two years or less at the time of the sponsorship application. The period of conditional status under consideration could be two years, or longer, from the time that the sponsored spouse or partner becomes a permanent resident in Canada."
See the word I bolded in red? What do they mean by "relationship"? Does it mean dating or marriage?
3. If the couple is successfully able to prove that they've been in the "relationship" (whatever that means) for 2 or more years (see my first question: HOW do we prove it's more than 2 years?), does that mean the sponsored spouse will get the permanent resident visa right away, just like before this new rule came about?
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