I moved to Canada from the UK with my partner on open working visas in September 2018. We have since been working and living on Canada and are about to apply for CEC as we will have 1 year experience in Class A and B jobs respectively.
We had planned to fill out separate applications as we didn't think we counted as common-law in Canada but when I was filling out my application I came across this:
A common-law partner is a person of the opposite or same sex with whom you have lived in a marital-type relationship continuously for a minimum of one (1) year and with whom you are not married. Once you have lived together for the first year, temporary separations will not end the relationship.
We have been living together for over a year (and 2 years before that in the UK) and share bills, own a car together etc. Should we be filling out our applications as a common-law application? If so do we need to get this verified by someone?
Thanks in advance for the help
We had planned to fill out separate applications as we didn't think we counted as common-law in Canada but when I was filling out my application I came across this:
A common-law partner is a person of the opposite or same sex with whom you have lived in a marital-type relationship continuously for a minimum of one (1) year and with whom you are not married. Once you have lived together for the first year, temporary separations will not end the relationship.
We have been living together for over a year (and 2 years before that in the UK) and share bills, own a car together etc. Should we be filling out our applications as a common-law application? If so do we need to get this verified by someone?
Thanks in advance for the help