PR - CRA Tax filed as single while in common law

[Eas5512]

Hello. My partner and I applied express entry together as common law partners. She is the primary applicant and I am the secondary applicant. We already received the ITA from the recent draw. However, we just realized that we both claimed as single when we filed the taxes for the past two years while legally we were already in common law relationship. The thing is we never realized we were in common law before applying to PR this year. We asked our accountant and get the answer that we are able to change our marriage status to common law for our past two years taxes. And it would take around 8 weeks for CRA to process.

My question is would IRCC find out we claimed the tax separately and would that be a concern? Would this be considered a misrepresentation? We are now in the process of changing the status. Because it stills take time for CRA to process the change, should we decline this invitation and wait until everything processed correctly? Thank you everyone for your advice. It would be much appreciated.

 

[canuck78]

Hello. My partner and I applied express entry together as common law partners. She is the primary applicant and I am the secondary applicant. We already received the ITA from the recent draw. However, we just realized that we both claimed as single when we filed the taxes for the past two years while legally we were already in common law relationship. The thing is we never realized we were in common law before applying to PR this year. We asked our accountant and get the answer that we are able to change our marriage status to common law for our past two years taxes. And it would take around 8 weeks for CRA to process.

My question is would IRCC find out we claimed the tax separately and would that be a concern? Would this be considered a misrepresentation? We are now in the process of changing the status. Because it stills take time for CRA to process the change, should we decline this invitation and wait until everything processed correctly? Thank you everyone for your advice. It would be much appreciated.

Shouldn’t be an issue if you gave other proof and then update when changed if you submit hard copies of the NOAs.

 

[Eas5512]

Shouldn’t be an issue if you gave other proof and then update when changed if you submit hard copies of the NOAs.

Thank you for the reply!

We did not submit any NOAs as proofs. We will amend our marital status on CRA asap. But was wondering if we should mention this or write an explanation letter for this matter to IRCC. I did some research online, there are people saying that CRA and IRCC are different entities, so IRCC will not be able to access our martial status info from CRA. If this is true, should we just change the status on CRA, and do nothing else when submitting our common law documents? Thanks!