Hi,
I got my COPR for myself back in Feb 2020 under Express Entry and Im outside of Canada. However, due to the covid-19, I could not travel and my COPR expired in June 2020. Last month IRCC contacted me to see if I wanted to reinstate the COPR and reopen the case. I agreed, but my circumstance has changed that I have lived with my partner since Feb 2020 till now, thus IRCC required me to provide evidence for common-law relationship.
I'm having some serious issue with getting the proof for 1 year cohabitation now because I did not expect to have my partner on my application at all, so that I did not retain much documents. I have the below ones only
But I wonder what will happen if the addition of my partner as common law is rejected? Will my previously-approved application be rejected as well?
I got my COPR for myself back in Feb 2020 under Express Entry and Im outside of Canada. However, due to the covid-19, I could not travel and my COPR expired in June 2020. Last month IRCC contacted me to see if I wanted to reinstate the COPR and reopen the case. I agreed, but my circumstance has changed that I have lived with my partner since Feb 2020 till now, thus IRCC required me to provide evidence for common-law relationship.
I'm having some serious issue with getting the proof for 1 year cohabitation now because I did not expect to have my partner on my application at all, so that I did not retain much documents. I have the below ones only
- Lease agreement with my partner as primary tenant from Feb 2020. My name is stated in later part as an occupant. I think this is the strongest evidence I have, but not enough
- I dont have any other joint document
- I have all of my individual bank statements pointing to the address from Feb 2020, same for my partner, but all are individual statements. We have statements from 2 banks for each of us
- I have some delivery invoices from Lazada and Shopee, Amazon delivered to me at this address, covering from Feb to Nov 2020 only
- All utilities are under my partner name only, so cannot be evidence
- I paid all the rent via bank transfers. But I dont have rent receipts, I can only point to the transactions in my bank statements that paid to landlord. Does this count?
- I obtained letters from friends and family testifying about our relationship and knowledge about our move in together
- I have a lot of Uber/Grab digital receipts that go to and from the address (like 90% of all receipts)
- I have tax documents from government that show both of me and my partner at the same address for 2020 and 2021, dated May 2020 and May 2021 respectively.
- My partner added me into her Corporate Insurance plan in Feb 2020. I have emails from the insurance company confirming the date they added me as a dependant, as well as a Certificate of Insurance that show I'm still under the plan. This is not cohabitation proof I guess, but it proved our relationship.
But I wonder what will happen if the addition of my partner as common law is rejected? Will my previously-approved application be rejected as well?
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