Still own a house(or lives) with your ex during spousal sponsorship?

[AW2011]

I had a relationship prior to my marriage. My ex and I jointly own the house which I'm still living in. He's
now living out of the country but using the house as his Canadian mailing address. We had an amicable breakup and agreed to sell later. I thought it would be better for me to stay there now till my spouse comes and joins me, then we can both look for our new home.
My spouse knows the situation and we also put that in our application. Wondering this would have some adverse
effect on our application?

 

[NBaker]

Provided you meet all other requirements as a sponsor it doesn't sound like a difficulty. Many times when couples divorce one may remain in the house that was jointly owned.

Quite a different scenario to that posted recently where the spouse is providing financial support for the ex-spouse and unaware of a new partner benefitting from the arrangement.

 

[AW2011]

Thank you!
We have gotten copies of my ex's lease, auto purchase, bank book, auto insurance where he's staying and the investment accounts splitting papers from the financial adviser, Canada Revenue Agency's T2220 form - TRANSFER FROM AN RRSP OR
A RRIF TO ANOTHER RRSP OR RRIF ON BREAKDOWN OF MARRIAGE OR COMMON-LAW PARTNERSHIP.
Wondering what other papers we could submit to show that me and my ex are done with each other?

 

[NBaker]

Was this a common-law relationship or marriage. If a marriage a decree nisi would certainly provide evidence of an end. If common-law perhaps a written statement from him might add to what you are including.

 

[AW2011]

It was a common law. Declaration of Severance of Common-Law relationship was already sent with our application.

 

[NBaker]

Well that's thorough.

Keep up with being organized, truthful on all applications, no admissibility issues and you should be all set.

Patience will be needed of course.

 

[AW2011]

Thank you so much NBaker. We're actually scheduled for an interview in Buffalo in June. Just wanted to equip ourselves with enough supporting papers to address their concern(we found that through GCMS).

 

[canadianwoman]

So the fact that your ex is still using the house you live in as his mailing address, and still owns half of it, was listed as a concern on the GCMS notes? That means it is a problem.
The evidence you have gathered looks good enough to prove your ex no longer lives there and is in fact your ex, but expect a lot of questions about this situation and about whether your new relationship is genuine.

 

[AW2011]

Yes. But Concern also reads that I would sell the house once my spouse is with me and look for our own new home(as we stated on our application). We had mountains of evidence - text messaging, e-mails, phone records, numerous trips, around 100 pictures of us & friends & families together, families and friends support letters, my six-month stay with him(prior to our marriage) in his home country, joint bank account statements, joint credit card statements, joint cable & utility bills, jointly owned property(in his home country) , jointly owned vehicle in US, insurance, he's the beneficiary on my investment accounts, my Nexus card so they could check my stays with him every weekend(he lives close to the border) and much more...... Our file was more than 6" thick!!! Most of my friends here married for over 30 & 40 years wouldn't be able to produce anything like those. Wondering what else we should show them?!!

But I think it still comes down to that my spouse is not from a visa-exempt country. He's a F1 visa holder in US. They interview all non-visa-exempt applicants(so we found out from this forum).

We would love to address their concern but it's at a cost of a much longer & stressful wait for both of us. We still think only if my spouse would be from a visa-exempt country, this wouldn't happen. Same relationship but viewed differently based on the origin of your spouse! So much for equality.