Hi! My partner (PR) and I will be applying for Inland Spousal Sponsorship under common law in October. I'm currently preparing the documents and I'm a biiit overwhelmed by how .. freestyled this application is, as opposed to Express Entry where you had sections for every document you had to submit and therefore had to merge everything. My main question right now is that my partner and I have the following timeline and I'm not sure how to document it:
Additionally, regarding Proof of Relationship - since I was here before him, most utilities are under my name and I pay them while he covers a bigger chunk of the rent. I haven't found a way of making our utilities accounts joint, so I'm not sure how we could present "sharing household expenses" other than just showing that we both pay for different parts of our expenses - we don't divide them 50-50, we just divide them as we see more convenient. We'll have the 20 photos spread out through 6 years of relationship and we're aiming for four reference letters, but I'm a bit lost when it comes to the shared household expenses. We don't have a joint bank account, but we have requested an additional credit card from his card for me to provide further proof.
Thanks!
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- (Semi unrelated) We've been a couple since August 2017 in our home country, where we met. For various reasons, we didn't live together in our home country.
- I moved to Canada in August 2021 to Apartment A as a student.
- Partner moved to Canada as a PR in October 2022 to Apartment A (we had an amendment to my original lease to add him as a tenant).
- Partner and I move to Apartment B (same condo building, so same address just a different unit number) in April 2023. We have a new lease with both of us as tenants, same landlord and everything. We moved in a rush 'cause we both started working from home and needed more space (Apartment A was a studio).
- In October 2023 we will have been living together for a year between Apartment A and Apartment B - no trips or separations of any sort, don't think we've spent more than a few hours apart hah.
Additionally, regarding Proof of Relationship - since I was here before him, most utilities are under my name and I pay them while he covers a bigger chunk of the rent. I haven't found a way of making our utilities accounts joint, so I'm not sure how we could present "sharing household expenses" other than just showing that we both pay for different parts of our expenses - we don't divide them 50-50, we just divide them as we see more convenient. We'll have the 20 photos spread out through 6 years of relationship and we're aiming for four reference letters, but I'm a bit lost when it comes to the shared household expenses. We don't have a joint bank account, but we have requested an additional credit card from his card for me to provide further proof.
Thanks!
(Edited some details for clarification)
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