Will this look bad on us?

[ColorMePanda]

Well since my partner filed his tax return it asked in you were in a common law relationship on as April 13, 2008 and obviously we said no.

Will it look bad in the application?
He couldn't file under that because we had only been dating for 6 months as of that date.

I just hope when we sign our declaration of common law union that when we select no to the box where it asked if we filed as common law on the T4 forms the commissioner of oaths will still sign it.

I mean we do have a reason as to why he didn't.

[mitamata]

For immigration purposes, you have to be living together for at least 1 year to qualify as a common-law partner. But, for other things, it can be enough that you're just living together. You don't become common-law partners 1 year after you move in together, you become common-law partners when you combine your affairs, which is usually sooner than 1 year after moving in together. So... *shrugs*

I honestly don't know how it works with taxes. But even if he was supposed to declare you as a common-law partner there and didn't, I don't think immigration will give you grief over it.

[ColorMePanda]

Yikes, do you think he should have put common law then?

If so, what should I do to correct this problem. He only sent it off a few days ago.

[diddagirl]

Yikes, do you think he should have put common law then?

If so, what should I do to correct this problem. He only sent it off a few days ago.

No your fine... you dont HAVE to add a common law partner to your income tax. When I filed my taxes last year, we and my common law had only been living together for 5 months so we weren't even eligible to have filed for common law.

[ariell]

LOL, well as you'll note in my thread on the other board, one government branch has NO IDEA what the other is doing! ;-0 So it's highly doubtful that Canada Immigration will even know how your bf filed his taxes and should they ask (which they won't) you can always say that you didn't think that you were eligible to file as common-law because you hadn't been living together long enough.