PFL - MISREPRESENTATION - NOT MENTIONING COMMON LAW

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Hello, any updates on this matter? I am in the same situation.

My partner and I are both on separate PGWPs, applying for PR together as common-law in October 2025. We accidentally didn't declare our common-law status on our individual PGWPs. Any advice on how to explain this once in the application? Any advice? Please help!​

Like I said both myself and my spouse got PR.

How long ago did you hit the one year mark and officially become common-law ? And when did you last apply for PGWP? If that was before Oct 2024 (PGWPs are usually good for two or three years) then you're fine as you wouldn't have had to declare earlier.

No big issue, just prepare a solid proof of your common law status.

I agree. Worst case maybe also a letter of explanation stating that you missed the requirement or lost track of how long time had past - some good reason for getting to mention it in the earlier applications.

My guess is that, where you both are eligible independently for PR anyways, that these are the cases that are least concern to IRCC, so you wouldn't have too much trouble.

If you can, a paid consult with a lawyer wouldn't hurt though - this seems like one of those cases where you'd want a professional to make sure all i's are dotted and t's are crossed, in case a misslip now causes more problems later on...