Timing between marriage and sending in application to sponsor spouse

[canadianwoman]

This is a good thread to bring this up. Marriage of convenience... Our situation was that I was in Russia for work approx. 1 year. During dating and two months before I had to leave we had a serious discussion and it ended up right then and there that we knew our best chance to be together forever and most sure way was to marry in Russia before I left (a month and a half before). If I explain this to immigration in the application, is this a negative?

It might be a negative, depending on how you phrase it. Basically, you two met, dated, fell in love, and got married. You don't need to say that you got married just so she could be with you.
Fine: You wanted to spend the rest of your lives together, so decided to get married.
Suspicious: She wanted to come to Canada so we could live together, so the only way we could do that was by getting married.

 

[canadianwoman]

Thanks! Don't you know you've been on my mind all day. Things have really lightened up and sped up in Accra, I wish you were applying now and not 2 years ago!

Yeah, me too. The first time someone posted on here that Accra had processed his visa quickly, I thought it was just an anomaly, but now several have been done quickly.

... he asked my husband what his future plans are, and he actually said 'my immediate future plan is to have a lot of sex - i haven't seen my wife in 4 months!'

I told my husband this, and he laughed and laughed, then said he shouldn't have said it because he won't get the visa. When I said he had got the visa, he was astounded.

the upsetting part of the day is that before being called in for the interview they took all his documentation. they gave it back at the end (including all the evidence from our application) and his birth certificate is missing. he checked through every paper and it's not there. when he went back in the afternoon to pick up the visa he inquired about it, and they said they had given back everything. seems it may be lost in the accra black hole, along with your marriage certificate. very sad, as you know those documents are basically irreplaceable. thankfully he thought enough to ask them to notarize the copy he had, so that's good.

I am so sorry to hear about this. They really are careless. Even if something like that fell out, you'd think that people would have enough sense to realize it was an important document and at least try to put it back where it belongs.

Anyway, at least he got his visa!

 

[nyssa]

Married - October 24, 2009
Sent App - July 30, 2010

The FBI completely screwed us.

 

[shawngt2]

It might be a negative, depending on how you phrase it. Basically, you two met, dated, fell in love, and got married. You don't need to say that you got married just so she could be with you.
Fine: You wanted to spend the rest of your lives together, so decided to get married.
Suspicious: She wanted to come to Canada so we could live together, so the only way we could do that was by getting married.

Understood and I have explained the way you mentioned thus far...ended at the married part.

Cheers, looking forward to mailing application in next week possibly!!!! Sept. thread here we come!!!

 

[dair2dv8103100]

Re: Timing betwn marriage and sending application to sponsor NEW TAX QUESTION

OK...so I started the thread with timing but I have a question about something unrelated;

I just realised this morning that if I apply in Feb 2011, I will not have done my taxes for 2010 yet...as we all know everyone waits till the end of Feb to send any needed tax forms to complete it. Therefore, I will not have a Notice of Assessment or even the tax forms to send in as proof of my income for 2010.

I am not willing to wait another 2 months to get this info, submit taxes and wait for Notice of Assessment.

How do I prove my income?

 

[dair2dv8103100]

Is there already a thread about this that I missed as I was going through???

 

[bonbon9]

Hi dair!

I believe they want the most recent taxation year, it does not have to be 2010, if you have Option C for 2009 just send those.
You have to submit a recent letter from your employer, I think this would be your proof of employment for 2010.

Hope this helps!

 

[bobshynoswife]

Re: Timing betwn marriage and sending application to sponsor NEW TAX QUESTION

OK...so I started the thread with timing but I have a question about something unrelated;

I just realised this morning that if I apply in Feb 2011, I will not have done my taxes for 2010 yet...as we all know everyone waits till the end of Feb to send any needed tax forms to complete it. Therefore, I will not have a Notice of Assessment or even the tax forms to send in as proof of my income for 2010.

I am not willing to wait another 2 months to get this info, submit taxes and wait for Notice of Assessment.

How do I prove my income?

2009 assessment will be fine.

i sent in my application in mid-may of this year, and only provided an option C for 2008, as i had not yet even filed my 2009 taxes.

 

[dair2dv8103100]

Awesome...thank you! I can handle that...of course I was just looking through my tax papers at home and only have the Notice of Assessment for 2008... I will find it...bet its at my office... hahaha... I am learning quickly how to be extremely oragnised!!! 8) Wierd how at work I am anally organised but at home...forget it!!! :

Hope everyone is well...thanks for the quick responses ;D

 

[shawngt2]

Re: Timing betwn marriage and sending application to sponsor NEW TAX QUESTION

2009 assessment will be fine.

i sent in my application in mid-may of this year, and only provided an option C for 2008, as i had not yet even filed my 2009 taxes.

My notice of assessment doesn't say Option C anywhere. Only notice of assessment at the top. Is this in fact "Option C" but just doesn't state?

 

[bonbon9]

Re: Timing betwn marriage and sending application to sponsor NEW TAX QUESTION

My notice of assessment doesn't say Option C anywhere. Only notice of assessment at the top. Is this in fact "Option C" but just doesn't state?

Notice of Assessment is not Option C. You have to give Canada Revenue a call and order it. It will arrive in a week.
Have your Notice of Assessment handy as they might ask you for details about it in order to confirm your identity.

Hope this helps!

 

[SaugaBoss]

married july 2009
mailed may 2010 ;D

 

[kalew2010]

Married March 2010
Sent app July 2010

We waited on our Marriage Certificate and the FBI but it seems like a lot of ppl have sent it to CPC Mississauga with receipts of applying for the Marriage Certificate (along with a copy of the solemnization of marriage or something similar) as well as a receipt for the FBI. In retrospect I think this is the best way to go because if we had done this my husband may have been here already (if we applied in March rather than July). Can anyone else who sent in receipts for these docs clarify?

 

[dair2dv8103100]

Notice of Assessment is not Option C. You have to give Canada Revenue a call and order it. It will arrive in a week.
Have your Notice of Assessment handy as they might ask you for details about it in order to confirm your identity.

Hope this helps!

Ok..now I am confused too...I thought Option C was in the sponsorship package with the request for information on my income? But I have to call and order it? Do I just simply ask for Option C? Are they going to know what the heck I am talking about?? 8)

 

[bonbon9]

Ok..now I am confused too...I thought Option C was in the sponsorship package with the request for information on my income? But I have to call and order it? Do I just simply ask for Option C? Are they going to know what the heck I am talking about?? 8)

Yup! They will! This is how it's explained on the Documents Checklist:

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SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS (continued)

An original "Option C Printout" of your and your co-signer's last Notice of Assessment for the most recent taxation year.
To obtain this printout free-of-charge from the Canada Revenue Agency, call 1 800 959-8281.

Hope this helps!