Help with "How do you and your sponsor communicate" (IMM 5490)

[cbellyoung]

My Anglo Canadian wife and I have lived together for 5 years in the UK. We therefore communicate every day. The only time we are apart is when we are at work. During the working day we communicate by phone, email, texts etc. The usual. And, yes, we communicate in English.

This question says it wants evidence like phone bills and letters to prove we communicate. I understand this request if you are living in different countries, but it seems a bit pedantic for my situation.

Despite this, should I just take some screen shots of emails and text messages we send during the work day? Or do I not need to provide evidence for this question, given my situation?

 

[rhcohen2014]

My Anglo Canadian wife and I have lived together for 5 years in the UK. We therefore communicate every day. The only time we are apart is when we are at work. During the working day we communicate by phone, email, texts etc. The usual. And, yes, we communicate in English.

This question says it wants evidence like phone bills and letters to prove we communicate. I understand this request if you are living in different countries, but it seems a bit pedantic for my situation.

Despite this, should I just take some screen shots of emails and text messages we send during the work day? Or do I not need to provide evidence for this question, given my situation?

I don't think the question actually says you MUST supply phone records and bills. i'm pretty sure it's suggesting these are optional items that can be submitted for relationship proof. CIC wants to know how you communicate with eachother, so just write how you communicate. it is not necessary to supply cic with your phone records to prove your communication. for my application, it was enough just to mention the ways we communicated with eachother on a regular basis. i did not include any records.

 

[canadianwoman]

Explain you live together. Adding a few screenshots won't hurt but is not necessary, given that you must have a great deal of other evidence the relationship is genuine.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Ah yes, the "maintaining contact" questions. My partner's answers were:

Question 24: "No. She lives with me"

Question 25: "No. I live with her"

Question 26a: "We live together. When she is upstairs, she throws paper airplanes downstairs to me with notes in them."


We didn't include a single piece of communication evidence and had no issues. The forms are generic and the VO will understand that those questions don't really apply to your situation.

 

[cbellyoung]

Ah yes, the "maintaining contact" questions. My partner's answers were:

Question 24: "No. She lives with me"

Question 25: "No. I live with her"

Question 26a: "We live together. When she is upstairs, she throws paper airplanes downstairs to me with notes in them."


We didn't include a single piece of communication evidence and had no issues. The forms are generic and the VO will understand that those questions don't really apply to your situation.

haha, that is brilliant. If only I had the guts to had a bit of facetious humour to my application!

Thanks for the help.

 

[Rob_TO]

We didn't include a single piece of communication evidence and had no issues. The forms are generic and the VO will understand that those questions don't really apply to your situation.

Same here. Since we applied as common-law we were living together over 1 year so didn't need to prove communication via emails, phone records, etc. We just said we communicated by talking to each other everyday, and that was it.

Communication proof is more required when a long distance relationship is involved.