Important Questions about the New Forms

Hi everybody,

I have some questions and would like to answer for some quick feedback, if possible, since I'm about to send my application in the next 3 days:

1. Me and my common-law partner apply from the US with her as principal applicant. Do we need to fill out a Statutory Declaration of Common-Law Form? It says in the instructions to be filed only if common-law partner is co-signer on the application!! What does that mean??

2. While my girlfriend (and principal applicant) is a permanent resident in the US, I am in the process of obtaining PR status. In the line for Status in your country of the application, if I put Other, I need to also put in Time (From-To) in the country of residence. But for the latter, you have to put in a date in the future. Should I assume when I will leave to Canada? Or what date should I put?

3. We have enough money in the bank. However, if we own a house also, do we need to include info on mortgage vs value? I would rather not complicate things...

4. There is a new form called YOUR TRAVELS. I came here 9 years ago and never left the US. My girlfriend came here 9 years ago also, and only traveled back to home country. They say write countries you have traveled, if not your country of residence or country of citizenship. Should we include all these as travels? Or no, since we only traveled between our countries of citizenship/residence?

Thank you all for your time and I would appreciate any thoughts/answers/ideas to any of the above!