Sir, you are correct but then i do see lot of couples living at the same residence while studying. They fall in love and later plan to marry. This means while studying if they ever apply for a permit they need to put a common law status there. People go into relationships and break up as well. This means they will have to keep declaring it to CIC
Yes, we lived in the same house which had 2 floors and i was in the basement along with 2 other men. We went into a relationship and changed the house in August 2015, she left Canada in December 2015.Originally one of my friend found this house and found 9 people to share the house to save the rent money. The house is where I met this girl and fell in love.
Now lets say if i do as you said which makes sense then I can actually get her to move with me sooner if i use that path but my concern is that we sort of shared the same house since 2015. in 2016 i applied for post-graduate work permit and she applied for tourist visa. We didnt mention common-law, we were 22-year-old people dating each other. But now if it's called as common law this will be bad for my existing permits?
On my PR application if i put common law, they will ask me why i didn't declare it earlier ( i never knew that this will be considered common law).
P.s we never had any same bank accounts, everything was different. floors were different, however it wouldn't show up on her ID as first or basement floor.
Please help