My common law partner is sponsoring me, can I apply for a work permit if..

[i_have_som_questions]

My common law partner and I are working on our application.
I was going to attach an open work permit application with the common law partner application, but I had to drop out of school because of some family issues back home.

I still have a valid student permit, but I had to drop out of college and I was planning on going back to my home country until my common law partner (for the last 3 years) said she wanted to sponsor me.

I was going to attach an open work permit with the sponsor application but it says this:
If you are a student: Proof or your academic standing: letter from the institutional registrar and/or photocopies of transcripts from your last two periods of study.

I dropped out and can't provide either, should I just not apply for an open work permit and just apply for common law sponsorship alone.

 

[Bs65]

So this is an inland application ?

 

[scylla]

How long have you been out of school? Once you stop attending school for more than 90 days, your study permit is automatically canceled. So depending how long ago you dropped out of school, your study permit may no longer be valid and you may be out of status in Canada. Ideally you want to have valid status when you submit the inland PR application. Depending on your answers to my earlier questions, you may need to convert your status to visitor or even apply for restoration (or it may be too late and you'll simply have to apply inland without status in Canada).

 

[i_have_som_questions]

I have been out of school for 70 days, yes this is an inland application .

 

[scylla]

I would apply to change your status to visitor to avoid potential problems/delays with your sponsorship application.