Hello, me and my common law partner are 11 months into cohabitation, month before we need to apply for common law sponsorship. But I am worried we do not have enough proof!! We only have a ring, letters from family, a lot of family photos, and he’s listed on my insurance! BUT I’ve read a comment on here that says we need names/dates THROUGHOUT the year of the cohabitation period to which we do not have enough. What other proof do we need that is beneficial, we need it fast!! Help!
Proof of Cohabitation December 2020
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My fiancé has been in Canada since January 11th and we’ve applied for a visitor extension in June, got accepted in July. The extension is only valid until January 11th of 2021 which would be a full year of cohabitating thus why we had the idea to apply for Common Law Sponsorship. People have mentioned on these forums to apply for another extension this week (30 days before the status expires) and then apply the day of or after January 11th.
ANYWAY some concerns have been wandering our minds like proof of cohabitation since we only have rings, photos, letters, document from the visitor extension.
ANOTHER question that has sparked interest is applying for the visitor extension today (December 7th) which is 34 days before the status expires, and get the marriage licence today or tomorrow and wait 3-4 weeks for our marriage certificate, but what if we get denied for visitor extension? Should we wait on the marriage certificate, and hopefully get the extension before January 11th and than apply for spousal sponsorship? But if we get accepted for the visitor extension and get more time, what should we do? Apply for common law or spousal? HELP”
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My fiancé has been in Canada since January 11th and we’ve applied for a visitor extension in June, got accepted in July. The extension is only valid until January 11th of 2021 which would be a full year of cohabitating thus why we had the idea to apply for Common Law Sponsorship. People have mentioned on these forums to apply for another extension this week (30 days before the status expires) and then apply the day of or after January 11th.
ANYWAY some concerns have been wandering our minds like proof of cohabitation since we only have rings, photos, letters, document from the visitor extension.
ANOTHER question that has sparked interest is applying for the visitor extension today (December 7th) which is 34 days before the status expires, and get the marriage licence today or tomorrow and wait 3-4 weeks for our marriage certificate, but what if we get denied for visitor extension? Should we wait on the marriage certificate, and hopefully get the extension before January 11th and than apply for spousal sponsorship? But if we get accepted for the visitor extension and get more time, what should we do? Apply for common law or spousal? HELP”
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I have the application open right now, should I put Spouse or leave it as common law ? Since we are getting our licence tomorrow and not the certificate
You don't have enough evidence to apply as common law unless you wait another year and build stronger evidence. Spousal sponsorship is the better choice if you want to apply now. Do not submit the sponsorship application until you have the marriage certificate. If you submit the application with the marriage license only, it will be returned as incomplete and you'll end up wasting months only to have to submit the application all over again.