Hi Heartbreakid,heartbreakid said:
Have you considered living with your partner for a year and establishing a common-law relationship? The fact that your partner is still married is not a problem to entering into a new common-law relationship as long as he and his wife are separated. I suggest this because you are waiting for the annulment to come through anyway and the CIC looks very closely at conjugal relationships.
"In general, people who have made the level of commitment expected in a conjugal relationship
would normally marry or live together. If a foreign national could have married their Canadian
sponsor or lived with them, and chose not to do so, then it is questionable whether they have the
significant degree of commitment characteristic of a conjugal relationship.
The conjugal-partner applicant should explain why they have not been able to live continuously
with their sponsor for at least one year. In most cases, there will be an immigration impediment to
continuous cohabitation (e.g., inability to obtain long-stay visas for one another's country). Noncohabitation
for purely personal or economic reasons (i.e., did not want to give up a job or studies)
does not normally qualify as a sufficient impediment, but should be assessed on a case-by-case
basis. Applicants should be able to provide evidence that they have seriously considered living
together as common-law partners. For example, they might have explored options for living
together in one another's country, such as work or study permits, how their occupational skills and
qualifications would be recognized in their partner's country, visitor visas, long-term visitor status,
etc."
