Rob_TO said:
One of the hardest parts of conjugal partner apps, is proving you are legally not able to get married to each other, or live together for one year.
Typically the main situation i've seen this for, is for applicants from countries like the Philippines where divorce is illegal, and living with another person not your spouse is also illegal.
What is the reason you are applying conjugal? Of course if your only reason for not being married/living together 1-year first, is things like school, work, money, family support etc etc... that is most likely not good enough to get approved as conjugal.
I would bet that iceteee is Filipino or Filipina.. if so they have come to the right place. Iceteee, my partner is Filipino and we can't marry also, despite all our efforts. We have applied as conjugal. This part of your application that you are asking about - this is the part that you have to put the most effort in. As conjugal applicants we have to include a lot of proof that our relationship is genuine and marriage-like. We also have to provide a lot of proof that we are unable to marry, and proof that we have tried everything to be together (like attempted visitor's visas, and we included proof of a failed annulment application that wasted 3 years) We also provided proof of the difficulties we experienced trying to stay together in the Philippines (a lawsuit against us on the grounds of Concubinage.. and now his ex is threatening a separate lawsuit against me for bigamy the next time I go there)
Another important thing is to provide proof that the married party is separated from their previous husband or wife. For this part we presented: various lawsuits and summons she has filed against him in attempts to extort money, proof of him living at another address in another town - drivers licence address, letters to that address, proof of paying rent at that address (and proof of my communication with our landlord to show that this house is rented by the both of us, although I only visit on my vacation from work in Canada) We also included letters from his family in support of us, letters from plenty of mutual friends, and the fact that early on in our relationship I was included as a godmother of our niece and not his ex, proof that his family recognizes me as his true partner.
One thing we have going in our favour is that we have spent a lot of time together in person. We lived together at our previous workplace for about 2 years, and took vacations together during that time. I visit him twice a year in the Philippines. The embassy does not look too favourably on applications where the couple hasn't spent a lot of time together in real life.
So these are the kinds of things you will be looking to supply ... you will need a lot of evidence and a well organized application to prove your case. We haven't been approved yet and I'm very nervous if they will accept us.
