Sponsor marital status question - urgent

[Andrea_imm]

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[scylla]

Hi,
I was married shortly in 2012, and have been separated since then. I have a kid and my ex is paying child support and I don’t need to pay him anything. I am the primary caregiver to my child. We have been had motions at court to deal with kid’s access time and child support. We don’t have separation agreement.

Given the short marriage and my CRA marital status is single all the time but it has the information showing that I am the primary caregiver of my child.

I am sponsoring my parents to immigrate to Canada this year. My income is sufficient to sponsor myself, my child, and my parents for the past 5 years (2014-2018 tax year).

I want to know in this case, when I fill the forms, I should put my marital status as separation from 2012 to present.

Will the “single” marital status matter at CRA in this case, If it is not consistent with separation?

Will CIC ask me to provide any documents to prove my separation? I only have the CRA records to show that I am single (but not separation). I also have previous court documents to show that we have been dealing with divorce related issues in the past years. Should I submit the court documents along with application, or should I wait until their request? Will this be sufficient? Does CIC have any specific separation proof needed?

Please advise.
Thanks,

You can't say you're single. You're not and that would be misrepresentation. You'll need to say that you are separated. I don't believe that you need to provide the court documents unless specifically asked.

You also need to fix your CRA status.You need to be filing as separated. This could land you in trouble with CRA.

 

[DollyM]

I called CRA before and informed them there is a change. But my ex is complicated and I don’t have accurate information about him. The CRA person said then leave to single as no money issues related tax if I keep single. I don’t share any benefits or not paying child support.

Thanks for th advice.

But you are NOT single. You are still legally married (if you are not divorced), so therefore you are separated. Unless you got something in writing from CRA saying to leave it single then you're only going on a "he said/she said" scenario.