Dear members of the forum,
I am about to send the application process for my wife to sponsor me. After hearing a couple of stories, and reading some posts,
I began to worry about rejection (as most of you must have).
The problem I would like to discuss is how to provide proof of relationship that goes way back the landing of the sponsor, without the immigration considering you a common-law or conjugal partner at the time of the landing of your sponsor, that would mean misrepresentation and would be very bad for both of you.
It seems to me that the officials want to deny as many requests as possiblie: they often deny people who claim to be in a common-law or conjugal relationship without an public document (people who would benefit from this status), however if, for example, someone was not included on the PR of an immigrant process, but was living on the same address on that date, they "infer" that the person WAS in fact common-law and should have been included on the process, that the applicant therefore lied as representing himself as single, and the aplication is rejected and the appeals would be rejected to.
It appears that lots of long term relationship between people who were not included in the original PR application in the first place make this mistake.
So I would ask to the more knowleageable members how not to fall for this deadly trap.
Our particular situation:
In my case, I have been a boyfriend of my girlfriend since june 2009. We are from Brazil and have the same background. We never have lived together in our country, she lived with her parents and I alone. In nov 2011 she received her visa (single), and landed in june 2012. I am here since nov 2012 on a visitor visa, and I have married in canada in december 2012. I plan to apply for an outland sponsorship through QC and the Sao Paulo office. I think it would take about an year. We have never been common-law (I wanted to take my time and do things proper, I was studiying in the university and honestly didn't knew how the relationship would evolve) and I only began living with here upon my arrival in Canada, about 4 months after she landed. I don't know if I am being paranoid or not, but I fear giving too much proof and they assume that I was in common-law or conjugal relationship with her when she landed, as many couples make this mistake. Based on this, do we have this risk?
Please, the sucessfull applicants in our same situation could help by explaning what they have put in their forms/proofs to not make CIC "wishfull thinking". Thanks in advance!
I am about to send the application process for my wife to sponsor me. After hearing a couple of stories, and reading some posts,
I began to worry about rejection (as most of you must have).
The problem I would like to discuss is how to provide proof of relationship that goes way back the landing of the sponsor, without the immigration considering you a common-law or conjugal partner at the time of the landing of your sponsor, that would mean misrepresentation and would be very bad for both of you.
It seems to me that the officials want to deny as many requests as possiblie: they often deny people who claim to be in a common-law or conjugal relationship without an public document (people who would benefit from this status), however if, for example, someone was not included on the PR of an immigrant process, but was living on the same address on that date, they "infer" that the person WAS in fact common-law and should have been included on the process, that the applicant therefore lied as representing himself as single, and the aplication is rejected and the appeals would be rejected to.
It appears that lots of long term relationship between people who were not included in the original PR application in the first place make this mistake.
So I would ask to the more knowleageable members how not to fall for this deadly trap.
Our particular situation:
In my case, I have been a boyfriend of my girlfriend since june 2009. We are from Brazil and have the same background. We never have lived together in our country, she lived with her parents and I alone. In nov 2011 she received her visa (single), and landed in june 2012. I am here since nov 2012 on a visitor visa, and I have married in canada in december 2012. I plan to apply for an outland sponsorship through QC and the Sao Paulo office. I think it would take about an year. We have never been common-law (I wanted to take my time and do things proper, I was studiying in the university and honestly didn't knew how the relationship would evolve) and I only began living with here upon my arrival in Canada, about 4 months after she landed. I don't know if I am being paranoid or not, but I fear giving too much proof and they assume that I was in common-law or conjugal relationship with her when she landed, as many couples make this mistake. Based on this, do we have this risk?
Please, the sucessfull applicants in our same situation could help by explaning what they have put in their forms/proofs to not make CIC "wishfull thinking". Thanks in advance!
