Common-law and married question

[EE456]

This is mainly to those who know or who have gone through a similar situation.

I'm applying as common-law while still being married to someone else-divorce proceedings are ongoing.

I'm being asked about whether I was married in the past or not, to which the answer is yes. However, I'm being asked when and how the marriage had ended. I don't have the option of choosing that the marriage is in the process of ending and that there's no date yet.

I don't want to pick a date arbitrarily and say the marriage had ended in divorce so this wouldn't be misrepresentation even though I would definitely explain in the letter of explanation why I made those selections as having divorced on that specific date when I'm still married and there's no divorce date.

Any suggestions for me to get about this differently ?

Thanks ya'll

 

[Mesh2003]

Anything ongoing is regarded as today. You can choose todays date and have the exact situation explained with an LOE.

 

[Mesh2003]

This is mainly to those who know or who have gone through a similar situation.

I'm applying as common-law while still being married to someone else-divorce proceedings are ongoing.

I'm being asked about whether I was married in the past or not, to which the answer is yes. However, I'm being asked when and how the marriage had ended. I don't have the option of choosing that the marriage is in the process of ending and that there's no date yet.

I don't want to pick a date arbitrarily and say the marriage had ended in divorce so this wouldn't be misrepresentation even though I would definitely explain in the letter of explanation why I made those selections as having divorced on that specific date when I'm still married and there's no divorce date.

Any suggestions for me to get about this differently ?

Thanks ya'll

You can also chose the date you became legally separated. I mean the date you submitted divorce proceedings in court and explain why you chose this date

 

[EE456]

Thanks for your input. We wouldn't be considered to have become legally separated when we petitioned for divorce. But your suggestion doesn't sound like a bad one. It's a shame that the system doesn't account for a situation like mine where the applicant is in a common-law relationship but still married to someone else.

 

[EE456]

Anything ongoing is regarded as today. You can choose todays date and have the exact situation explained with an LOE.

I know, but the system is assuming my marriage to have ended, so the question pertains to when it ended, there's nowhere to choose "ongoing". I don't see how else to get about this but to explain in the LOE, after all I didn't have the option to choose the marriage hadn't ended and I had to choose something from the dropdown menu.

 

[EE456]

Bumping up!