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[humblebee96]

Hi everyone,

 

[armoured]

1. IRCC might see our shared addresses and question why I didn’t declare him as a common-law partner on my PR application.
2. I want to make sure I handle this correctly and avoid any risk of misrepresentation.

Your concern is valid. Suggest you speak to a lawyer. I think there's a high likelihood that they'll see this as an undeclared common-law spouse, and you'll never be able to sponsor them.

Your timeline is not fully complete but three moves together in three years? Yeah, they're going to see this as a couple.

 

[armoured]

Lawyer said, since it was not a committed relationship in that, there shouldn’t be issues. We weren’t sure of the relationship and our family didn’t know about it, also we didn’t publicly post about our relationship in social media too. It’s been almost a year that I got Pr and it was 6 months ago we decided to get married.

Well, good luck.

To me a few things stand out:
-'we weren't sure of the relationship' = there WAS a form of conjugal relationship.

This is EXACTLY why the concept of 'common law relationship' exists - people living together for 'years and years' and not making up their minds or having their own ideas about what constituted a committed relationship. (Yes, three years = years and years, as does moving together, etc). For a lawyer to claim that the lack of commitment doesn't make it common law is (to me) outright asinine; but people can argue anything.

-The relatively short period of time between you getting PR and getting married, as well as the continuity, argues against the point.

Now it may be possible to argue and present this in a (more) convincing way - there's an aspect of subjectivity - but it's not at all a given IRCC will accept this presentation.

For anyone else in this situation (but BEFORE one of the two becomes a PR): if in doubt DECLARE YOUR RELATIONSHIP and get the partner on your application, as unaccompanied if must be. (You're never required to sponsor your partner, so there's no risk in that situation).

Or at minimum: have this conversation BEFORE - recognizing you might not be able to sponsor/be sponsored.

 

[armoured]

Just LOVE when people ask for views/info and then delete the title and content of their original ask when they don't like the answers they get.

Time for the big adult pants, folks.

 

[Buletruck]

Just LOVE when people ask for views/info and then delete the title and content of their original ask when they don't like the answers they get.

Time for the big adult pants, folks.

I was thinking the same thing. The irony develops when they delete the post, but forget that it remains in any post that quotes the original.