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Common law PR application(outside) Waiting Outside Canada

soohee

Member
Sep 14, 2015
16
0
Hello,

I applied for PR under common-law partner sponsorship last August, 2015. (Outside)

I went back home for 2 and half months and just came back to Canada.

My PGWP is expiring in Mar, 2016 and I am thinking to go back home again and wait there while waiting for my PR approval. (To work there and to be with family)

I wonder if it would be ok to do that when it is common-law sponsorship.

Do I must be living with my common-law partner while I am waiting for PR even if I applied Outside one?
 

rugrat907

Hero Member
Feb 3, 2015
424
28
California
Category........
Visa Office......
Ottawa
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
24-03-2015
AOR Received.
25-04-2015
Med's Request
Upfront
Med's Done....
21-11-2014, remeds on 04-12-2015
VISA ISSUED...
COPR issued 21-12-2015
As long as you at some point have a full 12 months of continuously living together in a common law relationship, it's OK to go back.
 

Rob_TO

VIP Member
Nov 7, 2012
11,427
1,551
Toronto
Category........
FAM
Visa Office......
Seoul, Korea
App. Filed.......
13-07-2012
AOR Received.
18-08-2012
File Transfer...
21-08-2012
Med's Done....
Sent with App
Passport Req..
N/R - Exempt
VISA ISSUED...
30-10-2012
LANDED..........
16-11-2012
It's perfectly fine, see here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/op/op02-eng.pdf
5.36. How can someone in Canada sponsor a common-law partner from outside Canada when
the definition says “is cohabiting”?



Just make sure to keep proof the relationship is continuing while long-distance.