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jorgus1710

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Jul 22, 2015
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Hello everyone, id like to ask for some help!
Question 5 on IMM 5285 asks the following : Are you in a common law relationship? Have you and your sponsor lived together in a conjugal relationship for a period of at least one year?

I'm not sure how to answer this, are they asking if we have lived together for at least 1 year before getting married? If so I should put yes, though this leads me to my 2nd question.

If I put "yes" it asks us to provide additional proof in document or written form that we lived together, this is where I think i might have a problem.

We have absolutely no documentation indicating that we lived together, because we were simply living at either my, or her apartment shortly after we got together. After all we were students with our own apartment/pad in a foreign country! What do you guys think of this? Considering my scenario, should I even put "yes" as an answer or should I attach a letter explaining that we were always together, either at my place or hers, though we never had anything in written form to prove it. Honestly speaking I cant imagine them not believing our story. Heck, non of the examples provided in the form relate to our specific scenario. We were studying in Ukraine, we had our own pads, and we lived together at either my place or hers, depending on which class was closer that month.

Let me know what you guys think. As always any input is greatly appreciated, many thanks!
 
If you each maintained your own separate residence in your own names, and both of you stayed over at each others places on any given day... then according to CIC you didn't really lived together at that time. Cohabitation for common-law requires you to live and completely combine your affairs together under just 1 roof. So both you and your partners' bills, mail, accounts, etc would need to show just the 1 common address you share.

Since you are married anyways, it's all a moot point and you would just answer the question with 'no'.