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Had another question - hoping someone has experience with this. I'll state my situation again: I'm a Canadian citizen that went to the UK to study for the last approximately 3 years. Met someone here and am in a common-law relationship. I am trying to sponsor her for our return to Canada next year. I am taking the 'common-law sponsor from outside Canada' route.
I've gotten a bit mixed up and thought I had all my documents in order, but I've recently found out that I need an original "Option C" notice of assessment, rather than just the regular notice of assessment. I've requested my Option C, but it of course has to be mailed to my address on file, which is in Canada. I expect it would probably be 10-15 business days at the earliest before I can get this Option C form, including sending to my address in Canada, then waiting to have it forwarded to me here in the UK.
We're already much later than we wanted to be with our application, so I'm wondering if it would be an option to send my standard notice of assessment, along with a printout of my tax return. I've read hints elsewhere on this forum that people have done this with success, but I thought I'd ask again. If I understand correctly, this is just to ensure that I have been earning some money in the recent years. That's fair enough, but the other issue is that I am of course a student, receiving mostly non-taxable income in bursary form - so only my taxable income (from miscellaneous teaching jobs, etc here in the UK) is listed on my tax return, and it is a relatively small amount compared to my bursary. I would think it would be more useful to give them my bursary payslips, and perhaps a letter from my University stating my bursary amount.
I feel quite bad at the moment, as my partner has prepared all her documents over the past months - we were hoping to send it off and celebrate this weekend. I thought I had everything in order, but then noticed that it was a different notice of assessment requested. We'd really just like to get it sent out. I would expect that if CIC absolutely must have the Option C version, that I could send it.
So what do you think, folks? Anyone do something similar? I realize it seems silly not to just wait for it, but as I mentioned we're already very far behind with our application due to all the supporting documents my partner had to get.
Had another question - hoping someone has experience with this. I'll state my situation again: I'm a Canadian citizen that went to the UK to study for the last approximately 3 years. Met someone here and am in a common-law relationship. I am trying to sponsor her for our return to Canada next year. I am taking the 'common-law sponsor from outside Canada' route.
I've gotten a bit mixed up and thought I had all my documents in order, but I've recently found out that I need an original "Option C" notice of assessment, rather than just the regular notice of assessment. I've requested my Option C, but it of course has to be mailed to my address on file, which is in Canada. I expect it would probably be 10-15 business days at the earliest before I can get this Option C form, including sending to my address in Canada, then waiting to have it forwarded to me here in the UK.
We're already much later than we wanted to be with our application, so I'm wondering if it would be an option to send my standard notice of assessment, along with a printout of my tax return. I've read hints elsewhere on this forum that people have done this with success, but I thought I'd ask again. If I understand correctly, this is just to ensure that I have been earning some money in the recent years. That's fair enough, but the other issue is that I am of course a student, receiving mostly non-taxable income in bursary form - so only my taxable income (from miscellaneous teaching jobs, etc here in the UK) is listed on my tax return, and it is a relatively small amount compared to my bursary. I would think it would be more useful to give them my bursary payslips, and perhaps a letter from my University stating my bursary amount.
I feel quite bad at the moment, as my partner has prepared all her documents over the past months - we were hoping to send it off and celebrate this weekend. I thought I had everything in order, but then noticed that it was a different notice of assessment requested. We'd really just like to get it sent out. I would expect that if CIC absolutely must have the Option C version, that I could send it.
So what do you think, folks? Anyone do something similar? I realize it seems silly not to just wait for it, but as I mentioned we're already very far behind with our application due to all the supporting documents my partner had to get.