Common-Law Proof of 12 months cohabitation? Help

[Djdj9037]

Hi there,
My common law partner and I have been living together for almost 2 years and our applying for sponsorship through family class Outland. However over these two years we have lived at more then 4 or 5 locations, with no leases signed for any address, since a few were on Craigslist for a couple of months at a time and two were living at our family homes with parents, which we currently are living at now and I was just wondering what sort of proof can we provide since we don't have proof of lease or joint utility accounts.

We do have some tax returns documents for both of us showing we lived at one of our parent's homes, were we did live for more than 9 months, plus we were thinking of getting afadavids/letters from parents saying we lived at there house for this many months etc. Just wondering if any other couples for common law had this problem and will this be a big issue in proof of relationship and evidence of current cohabitation?
Thanks for the help,
Dan. Smiley

 

[Ponga]

Unfortunately, the tax records won't do much, since it doesn't prove that you cohabited there (or anywhere) for the required 365 days.

If marriage is an option, it would make things better for a sponsorship application. Otherwise, you may need to wait until you have a solid year's worth of proof, before applying.


The Common-Law sponsorship burden of proof is quite high! The problem is...who thinks about retaining `proof', when you're just trying to live your lives, together.

Here's a similar thread, with someone facing the same problem:
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/common-law-documents-t488537.0.html



Good luck!