BCguy said:
People come into our office all the time asking for help,One should never give up,I was extremely happy today because I got approval from CIC for a difficult case,A Lesbian was sponsoring her Brazilian girlfriend as a common law partner,It was initially rejected,But I worked with them to fix the CIC questions and arranged support from Vancouver-East MP Libby Davies who is herself Gay.The PR Approval arrived today and the 2 women were jumping for joy and may get married next year.The point is something that tough still got approved
You just have to know how CIC thinks,One perk of working for Goverment is I have a copy of the Visa Officers Manual,Once you know how they think,Its so easy to present the case.btw the lives of religous figures are not valid from CIC viewpoint and you should see it from a Canadian Viewpoint.Please contact me by PM,I will take a look at your case
BC Guy,
My partner (Canadian) have been together for 8.5 years and we met on internet. We got married in January 2009 in Vancouver. My partner is 24 years older than me (i'm 35 and from hong Kong). I'm living with her upon my arrival on 28 December 2008.
None of my family and friend know i'm in same gender relationship because they are conservative and tradition. My partner's family (her parents passed away) disagree our relationship and not attend our wedding ceremony and banquet even we are liveing with her sister. (My partner's family (her sister & brother) think it's okay for dating, but shouldn't get marry; one of her sister and brother met me in Hong Kong as I helped them to organize a Asian trip in 2003)
My partner made a mistake: she thought an inland application for PR is more quicker than ouland. She also thought we can appeal for inland application. Importantly, she does believe we have been 8.5 years, even it is a long distance relationship, will not be an obstacle in our application. Hence, we planned to submit the application within Canada. However, referred more sharing here, I am more worrying our application will be rejected due to the age gap.
To proof our relationship, we have: phone bill, travel tickets (we visited each other or travelling twice per years), travelling photo, supporting letter from my partner's coworker, who know my partner for 3 years and met me in 2007, joint banking account that we opened in Jan, my partner listing me as her agent on her safety box. Yet, we seldom write letter, even we did emailed each other, but we didn't keep the record (only a few number of emails per year while the content is very general) as we keep talking over the phone everyday. Are those info are consolidated and good enough to proof our relationship?
I had already did a medical check-up in mid of January by using the form of "inside Canada" as my partner planned to submit an inland application. Yet, when I read more inform in this forum, we are hesitated. If we change our mind to submit the outland application, how about the medical check-up, should we need to do another one? I thought the clinic had already sent the result to the responsible dept.
What's your advise to us? I want to make a wise decision before to submit the application, no matter it is inland or outland. If possible, can you help us to go through our case in your office (Apologize if it is straight-forward or rude to you) ?
Million Thanks.