Okay, sorry - I'm a little confused and I'm piecing things together because I haven't yet gone back and read your post history to understand the backstory.
Have you submitted already? You had the application returned due to a missing signature. So have you re-submitted?
Waaay back in February you posted an example of stuff you were going to send based on one question on the checklist, and you asked if you should send more. Someone told you that you had enough proof of stuff in the first category, so there wasn't much need to send much based on the other category (the "no" to the question). At most, you were advised to send only a small selection.
You are married
and you live together. You do not need to go about sending a large amount - if any - documentation that is called for under the "no cohabitation" because you are cohabitating. Your relationship is genuine. Unless you think there are solid reasons why a visa officer would think it's not, then you don't need to worry.
What are solid reasons that a relationship may not be genuine? Things like:
- It's a second or third marriage to someone you are sponsoring
- You had never, ever met in person, married within a few days of first meeting, and you have not cohabitated since the marriage
- Your culture historically has elaborate, long, traditional weddings and you have not, opting instead for a civil marriage at a marriage registry
- Your husband has been refused eighty-seven times for other Canadian visas and is now married to you, and has applied facing a deportation order.
- The relationship started in May, you first met in-person in September, and married in October.,
From something you wrote above, I take it your relationship started online. That isn't a red flag. So did mine. Visa officers get that people meet online. Where the red flag comes in is if you did not ever meet in person until the day you got married, and then you left your husband in his home country only to come home and sponsor him. That's not what you've done. While an online relationship may raise an eyebrow, it will not raise a red flag, especially if you are married, families attended the wedding, and can write letters supporting your marriage.
You've named him on insurance, and vice versa. You share expenses. You have a cat. That's all good.
Do not go weighing down your application package with hundreds of pages of things that aren't super strong proof of anything - especially if it's something you do not need to provide, like chat logs for a marriage where you cohabitate with your husband! Remember, some poor visa officer has to read the brick of paperwork you're sending in. The more you send them that is
irrelevant, the longer their review of your file takes.
If a visa officer has minor doubts to the genuineness of your relationship, you'll receive a request to submit more information. In that case, you send in things like the chat log and gifts. If the visa officer has serious doubts about your relationship, you'll receive a procedural fairness letter. In that case, you send absolutely everything you can think of bar nothing and you have all your friends each write a letter testifying to the relationship.
But if you're married, and you cohabitate, you do not need to send in proof from the list of things you can send if you do not cohabitate. If you really, really want to, send in things that are strong proof, high-quality proof. Airplane tickets, records of phone calls, etc. I just think you're overthinking and over-panicking about documents your checklist says you do not need to send.
