Struggling to prove common law for 12 months!

[Lindobear]

So me and my girlfriend are planning on applying via the common law route in May 2017. By then we will have been living together for 12 months but the problem is we're struggling to find the official documentation to prove we've been living together for the 12 months due to us living in staff accommodation. We live in Banff where there is a housing shortage and due to my job (General Manager of a couple of businesses) I was given free rent in the staff accommodation provided and only have a tenancy agreement from my employer as proof. IMM5589E says we need to show 2 pieces of evidence but we can only show 1 as at that time I was going to be applying for residency via my job (which went tits up when the LMIA points changed in November) and we weren't thinking of collecting evidence for a common law application therefore my girlfriend didn't change her address and in fact kept everything to her address in Quebec. There's no postal service in Banff so we got everything delivered to General Delivery too.

I guess my question is there anything else official that we could use? We have an abundance of evidence from November 1st from when we finally found our own apartment and have since opened a joint bank account. Could a supporting letter from my employer to advise that we both resided there and had no additional bills to pay due to it being staff housing arranged through my employer work? What if we just submitted one document but had strong evidence in other ways such as photos of my family from England and her family from Quebec having a meal together? My IEC visa expires in June 2017 so we will need to apply asap in May.

Thanks in advance for any help and this website is an awesome resource

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I was given free rent in the staff accommodation provided and only have a tenancy agreement from my employer as proof.

we weren't thinking of collecting evidence for a common law application therefore my girlfriend didn't change her address and in fact kept everything to her address in Quebec.

What if we just submitted one document but had strong evidence in other ways such as photos of my family from England and her family from Quebec having a meal together?

Get a notarized letter from your employer stating when your partner moved in and how long you lived at that address together.

Do either of you have anything else showing that address? Mail? Phone bills? Payslips? Bank/credit card statements? Government mail?

Photos aren't common-law evidence. They don't in any way prove that you lived together.