"The sponsor has lived separate and apart from the foreign national for at least one year" ??

[frightenedpanda]

I was reading on Laws and Regulations website about the Family Class rules and came across this info :

Spouse or Common-Law Partner in Canada Class

Excluded relationships

• 125 (1) A foreign national shall not be considered a member of the spouse or common-law partner in Canada class by virtue of their relationship to the sponsor if
  • 
    
  • (c) the foreign national is the sponsor’s spouse and
    • 
      
    • (ii) the sponsor has lived separate and apart from the foreign national for at least one year and

Its on this page -- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2002-227/page-28.html#docCont

DIVISION 2 - 125 c(ii)

So how does this work for arranged marriages? Even if I have a girlfriend who comes to Canada and gets married to me, we would have still lived separately during our relationship.

 

[21Goose]

I was reading on Laws and Regulations website about the Family Class rules and came across this info :

Spouse or Common-Law Partner in Canada Class

Excluded relationships

• 125 (1) A foreign national shall not be considered a member of the spouse or common-law partner in Canada class by virtue of their relationship to the sponsor if
  • 
    
  • (c) the foreign national is the sponsor’s spouse and
    • 
      
    • (ii) the sponsor has lived separate and apart from the foreign national for at least one year and

Its on this page -- https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2002-227/page-28.html#docCont

DIVISION 2 - 125 c(ii)

So how does this work for arranged marriages? Even if I have a girlfriend who comes to Canada and gets married to me, we would have still lived separately during our relationship.

You're ignoring the "and" clause. Read the whole section.

• (ii) the sponsor has lived separate and apart from the foreign national for at least one year AND
  
  • (A) the sponsor is the common-law partner of another person or the sponsor has a conjugal partner, or
    
    
  • (B) the foreign national is the common-law partner of another person or the conjugal partner of another sponsor

 

[frightenedpanda]

You're ignoring the "and" clause. Read the whole section.

• (ii) the sponsor has lived separate and apart from the foreign national for at least one year AND
  • (A) the sponsor is the common-law partner of another person or the sponsor has a conjugal partner, or
    
    
  • (B) the foreign national is the common-law partner of another person or the conjugal partner of another sponsor

Thankyou for pointing that out. I am much more calmer now