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Your concern is valid. Suggest you speak to a lawyer. I think there's a high likelihood that they'll see this as an undeclared common-law spouse, and you'll never be able to sponsor them.
Your timeline is not fully complete but three moves together in three years? Yeah, they're going to see this as a couple.
Well, good luck.
To me a few things stand out:
-'we weren't sure of the relationship' = there WAS a form of conjugal relationship.
This is EXACTLY why the concept of 'common law relationship' exists - people living together for 'years and years' and not making up their minds or having their own ideas about what constituted a committed relationship. (Yes, three years = years and years, as does moving together, etc). For a lawyer to claim that the lack of commitment doesn't make it common law is (to me) outright asinine; but people can argue anything.
-The relatively short period of time between you getting PR and getting married, as well as the continuity, argues against the point.
Now it may be possible to argue and present this in a (more) convincing way - there's an aspect of subjectivity - but it's not at all a given IRCC will accept this presentation.
For anyone else in this situation (but BEFORE one of the two becomes a PR): if in doubt DECLARE YOUR RELATIONSHIP and get the partner on your application, as unaccompanied if must be. (You're never required to sponsor your partner, so there's no risk in that situation).
Or at minimum: have this conversation BEFORE - recognizing you might not be able to sponsor/be sponsored.
Just LOVE when people ask for views/info and then delete the title and content of their original ask when they don't like the answers they get.
Time for the big adult pants, folks.
Time for the big adult pants, folks.
I was thinking the same thing. The irony develops when they delete the post, but forget that it remains in any post that quotes the original.
I usually edit down the quote-posts just for logic/ease of reading, but every once in a while think I should quote the whole thing, just for this reason.
Talk about ostrich-head-in-the-sand approach.
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Hey ! My sincere apologies, thank you for the response. I understood the stupid question I asked and I don’t want to be judged. I really appreciate your response. Sorry 
It's not a stupid question, and you shouldn't feel judged (well maybe a bit) - you made a mistake. Own up, deal with it, and leave it there for others to learn.Hey ! My sincere apologies, thank you for the response. I understood the stupid question I asked and I don’t want to be judged. I really appreciate your response. Sorry
For the record, I HATE this policy of IRCC's - it's overly severe for situations where people honestly make mistakes, and where there's some subjectivity.
But it is what it is. It may be overly severe, but applicants screw up (also bear some responsibility) by not checking carefully and relying on 'vibes.'
I’m gonna get an expert advice from a lawyer and try my best on it. It’s a severe situation and I checked rules and stuffs. I should have leave it there true. I thought IRCC would only look at the genuineness of the relationship. I might need to think a lot now.
It is possible IRCC will accept your reasoning - but pay careful attention to it. Some here have had success in presenting their cases.
I personally would be a bit skeptical about an immigration lawyer who dismissed this entirely as a concern.
Rgardless - you are better off having asked and getting more information about this than if you hadn't (IMO).
Good luck.
Yes the reason why I’m here confused and lost is because he said it’s ok and while I’m reading online, it seems bit serious.
I have a question, we lived separate for about 10 months, will that break the common law timeline ?
Potentially. As I mentioned before, you didn't provide your full timeline and whether you had lived together for continuous 12 months before you became a PR (eg it depends when this period living apart was).
And obviously dependent on this also being a period in which there was not a relationship.
I’ll tell you, lived one year continuous and then separated for a year and then got PR and then now we started living together again.
This sounds different than what you first posted. I leave it up to you to figure it out.
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