Form mistake; leading to additional evidence required.

[SerPeran]

Hello,

We just received an email from CIC explaining that we need to submit additional evidence of a common-law relationship. After some searching, we found I made an entry error on my Generic Application Form (IMM0008ENU); when asked what date our common-law relationship started, I incorrectly put the date we entered our relationship not the date we first started living together. (All other forms are correct, with the appropriate dates).

In this situation, what do you think the best course of action would be? Our thinking is we resubmit the form with the date we started living together and an explanation of the error that I made, plus all of the additional evidence we can supply.

Any and all advice would be gratefully received.

 

[TANMEX]

Hello,

We just received an email from CIC explaining that we need to submit additional evidence of a common-law relationship. After some searching, we found I made an entry error on my Generic Application Form (IMM0008ENU); when asked what date our common-law relationship started, I incorrectly put the date we entered our relationship not the date we first started living together. (All other forms are correct, with the appropriate dates).

In this situation, what do you think the best course of action would be? Our thinking is we resubmit the form with the date we started living together and an explanation of the error that I made, plus all of the additional evidence we can supply.

Any and all advice would be gratefully received.

Hi ,
Sorry to hear about your troubles with IRCC and the request for additional evidence of common-law relationship and cohabitation .
The error you made is common lots of people here made the same mistake , some get approved and landed without request of additional evidence or an Interview .
In your case I suggest you send them more proof of your relationship , sending the form won't change anything .
you need to send solid proof of cohabitation and that you both your lives as a married couple .
you may consider sending any of the following if you haven't done already :
Joint bank account / joint credit card account / Joint bills / mail addressed to both of either of you to the same address / life insurance / important Documents showing same address i.e driver License of ID cards / supporting letters from friends and family member / etc .

are you still living together ?

 

[truesmile]

In any event, you still would have been incorrect. The correct date would be ONE YEAR from the day you started living together, not the same very day you moved in together.

 

[SerPeran]

Hello TANMEX and truesmile,

Thank your for your response.

We submitted the majority of what you listed, plus plenty of photos (we took a photo each day but did not send all of them, we didn't think they wanted 400 pictures of us). We had supporting letters from friends and her family, details of trips we took together, purchases made together, joint bank account and life insurance policy.

We are going to submit more evidence, obviously. Since we sent the application she has met my family, we went back to England together for a few weeks. We still have the details of that trip (flight itinerary) and photos of my family (including extended family, cousins, Aunts and Uncles, and Grandparents) and us. We also have some extra financial information to submit. And yes, we do still live together!

Truesmile, while I do not doubt your information, I've read on other pages on this forum that it's the date you first moved in together, not as you suggested, a year after we moved in. I need to confirm this piece of information.

With that being said, once I confirm what information I need to supply, what is the best course of action. Send a letter explaining the error and correcting the date, plus the further evidence or contact them and try to remedy the error without the additional evidence?

Edit: Further searching suggests that I should play it safe and pick the date a year after we first moved in together. Lots of crossed wires and misinformation on the internet, who would've thought it?

Am I right I can send this via the email address they supplied?

Thanks again for the help, it makes things easier when you know you have an excellent resource at your fingertips.

 

[taffy7]

truesmile is correct , it is not the date you moved into together. You have to be living with your partner for 1 full year to be common law .

 

[SerPeran]

Thanks, Taff. I was just editing my original post to agree with what truesmile suggested as you replied.

Appreciate the response.

 

[taffy7]

Fill out the form again so it is updated and send a letter with an explanation and extra evidence you have of being common law .

 

[SerPeran]

Fill out the form again so it is updated and send a letter with an explanation and extra evidence you have of being common law .

That's our plan right now, I'm just writing the explanation of my mistake as we speak. I asked in my previous post but if you don't mind I will ask again, can I email the information to them? They supplied a fax number and an email address underneath the address.

 

[taffy7]

yes. If they have supplied an email address then email the form back to them. As for evidence they normally require hard copies. Make sure you keep a copy of your email !

 

[SerPeran]

Thank you for all the information. You've been a great help.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

We are going to submit more evidence, obviously. Since we sent the application she has met my family, we went back to England together for a few weeks. We still have the details of that trip (flight itinerary) and photos of my family (including extended family, cousins, Aunts and Uncles, and Grandparents) and us. We also have some extra financial information to submit. And yes, we do still live together!

The request had nothing to do with the date you put. Many people screw up that question and put the wrong date.

You received the request because CIC wasn't convinced by the common-law proofs you submitted. The additional proofs you are planning to submit aren't very strong. You need more proof that you live at the same address. Photos and a trip itinerary don't prove that.

 

[TANMEX]

The request had nothing to do with the date you put. Many people screw up that question and put the wrong date.

You received the request because CIC wasn't convinced by the common-law proofs you submitted. The additional proofs you are planning to submit aren't very strong. You need more proof that you live at the same address. Photos and a trip itinerary don't prove that.

I agree , it's not the mistake on the form that triggered the request of additional evidence , you should not resend the form ., But more solid evidence of marriage like cohabitation .

 

[Aquakitty]

@SerPeran I think you are getting mixed up with proof for a genuine relationship vs. legally common-law. Like canuck says, you need hard evidence that you lived together for one year. Like, a dated piece of mail from an official source showing your name, and another one for your spouse at the same address. Or driver's license with the same address issued before that time, or a signed lease with both your names, and so on.

 

[SerPeran]

Thanks for your response, the below quotation is directly from the letter I received from them.

You submitted proof of cohabitation dated in 2014 only. Please provide additional proof of cohabitation as proof that you have been residing together since 2011/10/07 as you indicated on your application.

The date 2011/10/07, is the date we first entered our relationship, which is the date I mistakenly put on the Generic Application Form, as we have established, this is completely incorrect and should've been the date a year after we first started living together. Do you think it's still lack of evidence for first year we lived together or the fact there is no evidence of cohabitation between the date we entered the relationship and the date we moved in together (obviously, there is no evidence of cohabitation between these two dates).

 

[SerPeran]

@Aquakitty, I just saw you had replied before I sent my last post. I think you are correct about my confusion. After reading my last post do you think that our evidence was insufficient, some of it was not dated a whole year before we applied, despite living together for over a year before we applied. We supplied evidence of a joint bank account, life insurance, our dogs licenses with addresses on, all with addresses on, of course.