This is about a CEC application from outside Canada. I am a citizen of an EU country, if that is relevant, and I worked in Canada until late 2013. I'm now in the U.S., but I'd love to go back north!
I applied last summer (single male applicant), have done my medical this spring and have now received the RPRF. The e-mail I got from CPC-O went on to say that if I had married, divorced, had given birth, or adopted a child in the meantime, I should tell them immediately. The same if I intended to get married or divorced prior to becoming a permanent resident, or intended to give birth or adopt a child prior to becoming a permanent resident.
If so, I would "be asked to submit evidence such as a copy of the marriage, divorce, birth or adoption certificate or a letter advising when and where the marriage, divorce, birth or adoption is expected to take place." "Any new spouse and/or children must be added to your application and be found admissible to Canada before your case is finalized."
While we don't necessarily intend to get married before March next year (the time limit for my landing, based on when I had my medical, correct?), I have been living with my (U.S. citizen) girlfriend for over a year now and we have every intent of staying together and starting a family at some point. As I gather from reading other posts in this forum, CIC would consider that a common-law relationship that needs to be disclosed. If I don't disclose the relationship now, that can cause problems down the road, particularly if I wanted to sponsor her for PR, right? (I wonder why the e-mail does not mention common-law relationships, though.)
For what it's worth, and depending on the timeline, I will probably not stay in Canada right after landing, but return to the U.S. for some time and move to Canada as soon as I find a suitable job there. So, even if we don't get married before my landing, we might conceivably get married sometime between landing and actually moving to Canada.
So, what do I do now? I guess it would be best to send CIC an e-mail with the salient facts (no immediate intent to marry, but solid common-law partnership with cohabitation; anything else?) and let them tell me what to do. How long will it take to have her added to the application? What happens if this drags out beyond the March 2016 cut-off? Will I simply have to redo my medical (a costly nuisance, for sure, but not the end of the world), or can that kind of delay cause more serious problems?
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks, and Happy Canada Day!
I applied last summer (single male applicant), have done my medical this spring and have now received the RPRF. The e-mail I got from CPC-O went on to say that if I had married, divorced, had given birth, or adopted a child in the meantime, I should tell them immediately. The same if I intended to get married or divorced prior to becoming a permanent resident, or intended to give birth or adopt a child prior to becoming a permanent resident.
If so, I would "be asked to submit evidence such as a copy of the marriage, divorce, birth or adoption certificate or a letter advising when and where the marriage, divorce, birth or adoption is expected to take place." "Any new spouse and/or children must be added to your application and be found admissible to Canada before your case is finalized."
While we don't necessarily intend to get married before March next year (the time limit for my landing, based on when I had my medical, correct?), I have been living with my (U.S. citizen) girlfriend for over a year now and we have every intent of staying together and starting a family at some point. As I gather from reading other posts in this forum, CIC would consider that a common-law relationship that needs to be disclosed. If I don't disclose the relationship now, that can cause problems down the road, particularly if I wanted to sponsor her for PR, right? (I wonder why the e-mail does not mention common-law relationships, though.)
For what it's worth, and depending on the timeline, I will probably not stay in Canada right after landing, but return to the U.S. for some time and move to Canada as soon as I find a suitable job there. So, even if we don't get married before my landing, we might conceivably get married sometime between landing and actually moving to Canada.
So, what do I do now? I guess it would be best to send CIC an e-mail with the salient facts (no immediate intent to marry, but solid common-law partnership with cohabitation; anything else?) and let them tell me what to do. How long will it take to have her added to the application? What happens if this drags out beyond the March 2016 cut-off? Will I simply have to redo my medical (a costly nuisance, for sure, but not the end of the world), or can that kind of delay cause more serious problems?
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks, and Happy Canada Day!