We're ready to apply soon and want to check if we have enough and also a few questions.
Your thoughts to anything we should add or fix would be appreciated.
Quick review of our Common Law Relationship.
We lived together in The Philippines for 9 months in one home
We've spent the remaining 3 months "backpacking" traveling country to country city to city
And the last week before me heading back to Canada in The Philippines so we can tighten up loose ends.
1. All the Forms filled
2. Medical, Police Clearance, Option C etc and all that
Medical for her non-accompanying daughter. Daughters birth certificate.
Supporting Documents
2 Notarized documents from friends supporting our relationship
6 Non-Notarized documents from friends supporting our relationship.
A letter from my Mother and Father both showing support
Joint Bank Account Statement
Some ATM receipts with both our names on it showing we've made transactions.
All these dated at our 9 month point of our relationship as we left the island and have no plans on going back.
9 Months of iphone dated text messages we've sent to each other, we printed the ones we felt relevant to us living together. Such as "I am coming home soon" or "the key is under the matt"
For 3 months traveling we are together 24 hours per day and do not text.
Facebook postings
A Notarized Billing Statement and a Notarized letter of support from our landlords from where we lived in The Philippines showing what we paid, that they know we lived together, etc.
Receipts from dozens of guesthouses we have stayed in for 3 months with both our names on it, the address, phone number, business card of each place.
Also a letter of explanation of our unusual way of cohabiting together as the VO may not be used to dozens of receipts.
12 different flight tickets we have with our names on it.
50+ Pictures of us together from the beginning to end of our 1 year cohabitation together. With emphisis of proof that we are in a certain country together. Such as Angkor Wat in the background showing we're in Cambodia, etc. Also plenty of pictures of us with my friends, especially the ones who wrote letters for us.
Most pictures are datestamped as they are screen saved from facebook. We believe this will also prove our relationship is public.
A Copy of her marriage certificate. (Do we need to provide this)
She is legally married in The Philippines. Divorce is not possible. We're afraid if we don't include it, they will ask to prove she is married.
Or should we produce an AOM (Advisory on Marriages)
Photocopies of all the stamps in our passports that match, same date in all the countries.
A notarized statement from her saying she no longer considers herself married to him, she has no contact with him and does not wish to contact him or know how to.
Her father forced the marriage upon her (before I knew her) and after 1 day she ran away. It was a civil union, he is of Nepalese decent. We're concerned this will cause problems for us.
A long letter written by me and another written by her about our story, how we met, what we have done together over the year, etc.
She really doesn't want me to meet her parents, although they know and support our relationship, the fact she was forced into marriage by her father and ran away it's a sticky point for them. But I'm trying my best to get me to meet them and have some photos taken together.
If I am already in Canada do I need to show that I am currently employed (I will be)
That would be all!
Anything we're missing?
Your thoughts to anything we should add or fix would be appreciated.
Quick review of our Common Law Relationship.
We lived together in The Philippines for 9 months in one home
We've spent the remaining 3 months "backpacking" traveling country to country city to city
And the last week before me heading back to Canada in The Philippines so we can tighten up loose ends.
1. All the Forms filled
2. Medical, Police Clearance, Option C etc and all that
Medical for her non-accompanying daughter. Daughters birth certificate.
Supporting Documents
2 Notarized documents from friends supporting our relationship
6 Non-Notarized documents from friends supporting our relationship.
A letter from my Mother and Father both showing support
Joint Bank Account Statement
Some ATM receipts with both our names on it showing we've made transactions.
All these dated at our 9 month point of our relationship as we left the island and have no plans on going back.
9 Months of iphone dated text messages we've sent to each other, we printed the ones we felt relevant to us living together. Such as "I am coming home soon" or "the key is under the matt"
For 3 months traveling we are together 24 hours per day and do not text.
Facebook postings
A Notarized Billing Statement and a Notarized letter of support from our landlords from where we lived in The Philippines showing what we paid, that they know we lived together, etc.
Receipts from dozens of guesthouses we have stayed in for 3 months with both our names on it, the address, phone number, business card of each place.
Also a letter of explanation of our unusual way of cohabiting together as the VO may not be used to dozens of receipts.
12 different flight tickets we have with our names on it.
50+ Pictures of us together from the beginning to end of our 1 year cohabitation together. With emphisis of proof that we are in a certain country together. Such as Angkor Wat in the background showing we're in Cambodia, etc. Also plenty of pictures of us with my friends, especially the ones who wrote letters for us.
Most pictures are datestamped as they are screen saved from facebook. We believe this will also prove our relationship is public.
A Copy of her marriage certificate. (Do we need to provide this)
She is legally married in The Philippines. Divorce is not possible. We're afraid if we don't include it, they will ask to prove she is married.
Or should we produce an AOM (Advisory on Marriages)
Photocopies of all the stamps in our passports that match, same date in all the countries.
A notarized statement from her saying she no longer considers herself married to him, she has no contact with him and does not wish to contact him or know how to.
Her father forced the marriage upon her (before I knew her) and after 1 day she ran away. It was a civil union, he is of Nepalese decent. We're concerned this will cause problems for us.
A long letter written by me and another written by her about our story, how we met, what we have done together over the year, etc.
She really doesn't want me to meet her parents, although they know and support our relationship, the fact she was forced into marriage by her father and ran away it's a sticky point for them. But I'm trying my best to get me to meet them and have some photos taken together.
If I am already in Canada do I need to show that I am currently employed (I will be)
That would be all!
Anything we're missing?
