PR AND MARRIAGE RELATED QUESTION URGENT

[fourkey2001]

Hello,

I am currently an applicant for PR in my final steps of the process. About to receive medicals. I applied as a single applicant.

My question is: I am currently back home and may get married here with my fiance. My fiance is on a employer sponsored workpermit in Canada. She is about to apply for her PR application under CEC

I am an international student currently. If I add her to my application, it will certainly slow down my application or delay it by a few months. However, if we do get married back home (in relgious ways) and not legally (in the court), get back to Canada and stay the way back we are (in separate cities - meet on weekends, etc).

Once we both get our PRs, and we declare our marriage to Canadian government in court (fresh court marriage)

Only thing we will be lying is our status as single in our applications (when she applies for her PR)

Would this be okay? any thoughts?

 

[computergeek]

If you add her to your application now, it will likely slow things down, although not terribly long (since you haven't received medical request yet).

If you do not have a LEGAL marriage, it will not count for CIC. Have you lived together for a year (common-law)? If so, the lack of a legal marriage won't matter because you have a legal relationship under Canadian law. But it doesn't sound like you do, so you aren't common-law either.

The marriage must be valid under the law of the country where it took place and under Canadian law.

Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/spouse-apply-who.asp

But if you want to be absolutely certain, send a letter to CIC, include your religious marriage certificate, note that you have a religious marriage but not a legal marriage and indicate that unless you hear otherwise from them, you will assume they do not require any further documentation or a modification to your application. Disclose the same thing on her application - let CIC tell you if they think it is an issue (I suspect they won't). That way you have protected both of you from claims of misrepresentation.

Good luck!