Spousal Sponsorship question

[5hr3wd]

Hi again.


Me and my wife have been working on a spousal application since a few months. We're going to be applying inland since I'm in Canada on a study permit.

We're at the end of collecting all the documents. My wife who is a PR of Canada immigrated in June 2012, hasn't worked since then. She's a full time student, so am I. So she doesn't have a Option C print because we just filed her tax return a month ago and the wait time for processing of new immigrants is 4 months.

So we have no choice but to look for alternatives. For starters she has started looking for jobs so we can send in a job offer letter with our application but we haven't had much luck with that. So I am wondering is there any other way to prove she's not on welfare since she doesn't have a Option C print out nor a job. We do have our joint bank statement which has a balance of 13000$ and shows wire transfers from our parents supporting us for our university and living expenses. We have also have a joint lease and have been successfully paying for it since last 5 months (We can also put in receipts for it). One more thing, she doesn't use OSAP since her parents support her with it. Will providing fees receipts from university help us proving that she's not on welfare since she hasn't even used osap to pay for uni.

Any help or suggestion would be appreciated. Since this is main issue stopping us from submitting our app.


Thanks in advance

 

[amikety]

Can your parents write letters of support?

You can always send the Option C in later.

A job isn't a requirement to sponsor. As long as you show the parents' support, it should be fine

 

[5hr3wd]

Can your parents write letters of support?

You can always send the Option C in later.

A job isn't a requirement to sponsor. As long as you show the parents' support, it should be fine

Parents don't know about our sponsorship application. They might not approve of it and stop supporting us for our school.

Any other option you can think of?

 

[amikety]

Parents don't know about our sponsorship application. They might not approve of it and stop supporting us for our school.

Any other option you can think of?

Who is writing the notarized letters for support of relationship? Those are required for common-law. It's not required parents write them, of course.

Then show history of bank statements. I'd say 3-6 months of regular wires from the parents. Mail the Option C in when you get it. CIC will be able to do their own welfare check.

Also you or your wife can write a statement about your plans to support yourselves. You can discuss your schooling, career options/outlook, and support from mom and dad. If your parents disapprove for reasons easily explained (i. e., religious and against their beliefs to live together before marriage) I don't see the harm in explaining this to CIC. It would help the VO understand your situation as your relationship not being known is a red flag. (Don't stress much, I have the same issue. My family doesn't know I'm married and probably never will.)

 

[5hr3wd]

Who is writing the notarized letters for support of relationship? Those are required for common-law. It's not required parents write them, of course.

Then show history of bank statements. I'd say 3-6 months of regular wires from the parents. Mail the Option C in when you get it. CIC will be able to do their own welfare check.

Also you or your wife can write a statement about your plans to support yourselves. You can discuss your schooling, career options/outlook, and support from mom and dad. If your parents disapprove for reasons easily explained (i. e., religious and against their beliefs to live together before marriage) I don't see the harm in explaining this to CIC. It would help the VO understand your situation as your relationship not being known is a red flag. (Don't stress much, I have the same issue. My family doesn't know I'm married and probably never will.)

1)Sorry I forgot to mention we're married. But we still have 9-10 friends who have written us reference letters, they're not notarized. Do you think it's worth it to get notarized ones instead?

2)Ok I can arrange 6-9 months of bank statement showing wire transfers. And yes I will mail in the Option C later on. I just don't want it to be sent back in the first stage because of them finding it as an incomplete app.

3)Yeap we plan on doing that aswell. She has a Co-op term coming up next term as well maybe we can mention that in the explanation too.

Oh wow you seem to be in a similar situation too. I've been stressing out too much on this issue since it's seems to be a weak point of our case . My wife and I are both from the same country but we come from different religious backgrounds. We don't care but our parents do which is why they won't approve of it. But we hope to make them approve of us in the future after we done with school and have sucessfully shifted into careers.

 

[amikety]

Just tell CIC the Option C is in the works. Short letter will be fine.

If you're married you don't need the letter, although they can't hurt. They're fine as is.

My hubby is an atheist. Imagine the trouble I would be in!

 

[5hr3wd]

Just tell CIC the Option C is in the works. Short letter will be fine.

If you're married you don't need the letter, although they can't hurt. They're fine as is.

My hubby is an atheist. Imagine the trouble I would be in!

Yeah I can understand :/ Well Good luck hope everything goes well for you!

Also since we have a similar weak point in our cases. Do you think you can tell me what and how much proof of genuine relationship you included with your application?


Thanking you!

 

[amikety]

Yeah I can understand :/ Well Good luck hope everything goes well for you!

Also since we have a similar weak point in our cases. Do you think you can tell me what and how much proof of genuine relationship you included with your application?


Thanking you!

Let's see if I can remember it all

- Photos - 11 total. 1 from honeymoon, 1 from vacation with his dad, sister, and her kids, 1 from my May 2011 visit before I moved here (selfie too, it's out of focus and awful), and the rest were from the wedding - us signing the papers, one with the marriage comissioner, and the rest were assorted guests - which wasn't very assorted because we only have 13 people there.

- Cards we've given each other. This wasn't comprehensive as my husband "couldn't find" half of his (but then found them 2 months later.... ). Photocopies of course - just the inside so the VO can see what we wrote. I dated and/or wrote the event "Christmas 2012" etc on each.

- Wedding card from his paternal grandmother

- Letter from his dad

- Copy of our rental lease - in which I am listed as "Friend" because we weren't married at the time. I have a new lease that I'm properly on now as a co-signer, which I need to forward to CIC along with my re-done Schedule A (long story, I screwed up!).

- Paper work from joint bank account

- Print out of our joint cell phone account

- Copy of my healthcare card and Spouse benefits cards. It's awesome because it actually says "Spouse Card" on it

- Copy of flight information from websites purchased and/or copies of the actual tickets. He had 1 visit, I technically had 2, so it wasn't huge.

- Copy of receipt for hotel which was in his name, but paid for with my debit card.

- Copy of ticket stub from the Drumheller museum showing 2 adults admitted from August 2011.

- Selected emails between us - we don't email much, I think there were 12

- Screenshot of our Yahoo IM archive showing my chat log to him with date, time, and file size. I printed 1 sample chat for each month, which turned into 70 pages

- Skype history. I copy/pasted it and edited out all the extra space. It was almost entirely video calls and still 13 pages long!

- Facebook Wall-to-Wall history showing us playing The Sims Social together (and having a Sim love life, woo hoo. Pun intended). Also shows our mutual friends which includes his dad, sister, and nephew.

- Screenshots from Facebook showing our engagement announcement (which his dad liked and you can see it in the picture).

- Screenshots from Facebook showing our wedding announcement (which is on custom viewing, but that's not in the picture).

I also included a little statement about why my family wasn't at the wedding. And one for my hubby about his family as well. We didn't write a "relationship essay" like many people. I only included a statement on the form. My husband didn't write one that I know of. That would probably have been a bad idea.... he can't spell to save his life.

The lady at Canada Post said we sent too much. I'm not sure how she knew this...

 

[5hr3wd]

Oh wow. That seems to be a good amount of proof. I really hope everything works out for you

And thank you so much for taking the time out for this


This is what I am planning to put in with my application. I have a feeling it might not be enough

Proof Of Relationship:

-Joint Lease + Rental receipts both showing our names on them, Joint Bank Statement, Joint credit card bills, Joint Utility Bills, Joint Life Insurance Policy (I still have to buy one yet not sure if it's worth it), documents showing joint ownership of Property (car). , IDs showing same address.

-Record of travel (She came to visit me once when I used to live in a different province of Canada), Pictures of outing together (20ish, half of them with friends), Pictures of wedding ceremony at city hall + Pictures of reception with 25 friends attending , wedding reception receipt, Reception Invitation card.

-Reference letters from friends endorsing our relationship, Receipts of shopping for our apartment together, university letters showing me as her emergency contact.

-Chat logs and call logs (Facebook, Texts, Whatsapp, Skype. 100 Pages each but probably gonna submit the important ones), Facebook Friendship timeline screenshots (Showing our public messages to each other, also mutual friends) Phone bills showing unlimited calls to each other before we moved in together, Joint Gym membership proof.

-Concert and movie tickets that we saw together and also have pictures of. New phone purchase proof (gift), Random gift card with a message on it.


Sorry these are all mixed up, just copied them all from my sticky notes and tried to explain them.


What do you think?

 

[amikety]

That sounds good to me