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    Is it helpful to hire a lawyer?

    yes we have all the divorce papers. I honestly wouldn't use one either, but I am just overthinking excessively, I had a pain problem that had really messed up my life and for that reason we held a small ceremony but we didn't even document that properly. Like for eg no pictures of rukhsati (wife...
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    Is it helpful to hire a lawyer?

    Together we have spent 10 months after marriage, 4 after marriage, 2+4 on subsequent visits). Before marriage, we were related and neighbours, and I lived there for 4 years during which time we had interactions on weekly basis (going to each other's house for various reasons). I think it would...
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    Is it helpful to hire a lawyer?

    I am a Canadian citizen sponsoring my wife who is in Pakistan. my concerns are: wife is previously divorced 14 years ago in arranged marriage. big age gap, her ex husband 14 years older, relationship only lasted 22 days, divorce finalized few months later. our marriage was a small ceremony...
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    Marriage celebration on daughter's 1st birthday? Can I list this as event in IMM5532?

    ok thanks, I was trying to overly explain so that it was clear to officer that it wasn't just meant to be a birthday, but now will mention it as combined marriage & birthday celebration in IMM5532 and attach a short LOE. I guess from pics they will be able to make out that it was a combined event.
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    Marriage celebration on daughter's 1st birthday? Can I list this as event in IMM5532?

    ok thanks everyone for your replies, I am thinking of listing the event as marriage celebration in the IMM5532, and write a LOE so that I can explain how/why doing it on our daughter's birthday made it more meaningful or special for us. Hopefully it won't come across as misleading. Because if I...
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    Marriage celebration on daughter's 1st birthday? Can I list this as event in IMM5532?

    I am super confused now, so celebrating our daughter's 1st birthday together cannot be accepted as commitment ceremony? esp when most of the event is also showing our relationship is being recognized? Because if I cannot list this as event, it would delay our application more as our...
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    Marriage celebration on daughter's 1st birthday? Can I list this as event in IMM5532?

    Hello everyone, I am hoping if you can help me regarding our application/ situation to apply my wife's sponsorship. We are married 2 years and 3 months. In IMM 5532, there is question asking "Were there formal events to recognize or celebrate your relationship eg engagement ceremony...
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    Yes, will definitely mention that also as another reason.
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    ok thanks I really appreciate your help on this, I was lost before, I felt like I had to explain every aspect of what I went through to explain for choosing to do a simple ceremony, but definitely now I will keep it brief and to the point and phrase it how you said.
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    ok thanks i will note your suggestions, but you saying "when I needed support, we decided to marry" sounds like relationship is transaction, but for me it felt more like interdependence on each other. But this thread has helped me a lot so I'm gonna make sure I'm more concise and not make it...
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    ok I'm definitely gonna talk about our relationship from when we started to now as husband and wife, I didn't forget this, but am I ok to mention in a sentence or two that we had a simple marriage ceremony because of my pain/health situation at the time?? and then attach 7-8 medical reports or...
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    thanks guys for your replies, yeah I will submit it soon myself and hopefully it will go all smooth. just waiting on chats translation. at YVR123, when you say take the "dealing with your pain" issue from your description, can you clarify what you mean by it? Like what you said here is a lot...
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    I have no debts and never had any assistance, my income tax is little bit low like 22k for 2022, and maybe it'll be 26k for 2023 for self employed, but I'm hoping to explain that because I spent half of the time from both years on family visits.
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    Can our application be refused because of my medical documents? For ex can they say that since I had this condition 2 plus years ago, it may manifest again and I may not be able to support my family? Even if I have had no issue since my treatment. Also I have not been on any sort of assistance.
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    thanks for your support, it means a lot. i hope i can send this in soon.
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    The document checklist asks photos of your wedding, customary celebrations, engagement, and/or outings. Since it uses the phrase "or outings" can I just provide many of our outings, birthday pics and perhaps the visa officer would be satisfied and not ask about marriage day pics? this is my...
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    By related, she is the granddaughter of my paternal aunt. At the same time, we liked each other, talked on phone everyday and occasionally saw each other when I was in Pakistan. When I said getting married this way because of pain, what I mean to say is at that time because of how the pain...
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    confused and stressed out regarding spouse sponsorship, please give your opinion

    So basically I'm Canadian citizen and sponsoring my wife from Pakistan. I just saw a lawyer who wants 8.5k to do my application, but the thing is I already took time off and prepared my application in the last few weeks. Reason to see the lawyer was to get opinion on my marriage pics (which she...
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    Is it acceptable to provide proof of contact( Whatsapp specifically) from the sponsor's device?

    ok thanks for clarifying, makes sense because either way it's capturing the same conversation.
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    stuck on proof of contact, Whatsapp chats translation

    To sponsor my wife, I have basically gathered 2 years of screenshots on Whatsapp (around 50 chat screenshots and 50 voice/video calls screenshots). But I am not sure how to economically get all our chat screenshots translated by certified translator in Canada without spending a lot of money, and...