Hi all,
I want to ask you for help with clarifying the confusion about the documents and translations required for our application.
I went over many posts in this forum, Quora, and Reddit it makes my head spin. I found a lot of valuable information that I'm more than helpful for. However, there are still some parts I'm confused about.
Our situation
The documents required to prove our common-law partnership and the
Thank you.
Michal
I want to ask you for help with clarifying the confusion about the documents and translations required for our application.
I went over many posts in this forum, Quora, and Reddit it makes my head spin. I found a lot of valuable information that I'm more than helpful for. However, there are still some parts I'm confused about.
Our situation
- I'm the principal applicant, applying under the Family class
- My common-law partner is the Sponsor, she is a Canadian citizenship
- We have lived in a common-law partnership for 6 years
- We have 2 children, both of them Canadian citizens
- We live outside of Canada (EU) and we want to move permanently to Canada (ON)
The documents required to prove our common-law partnership and the
- Proof of joint utility accounts: How much back do they need to go? Is a year enough? Also, is the exported bank account statement from the internet banking enough or does it need to be provided by the bank directly?
- Documentary evidence of financial support between you and your sponsor: We have 120+ pages of transactions from the joint account and our own bank accounts. How much back do they need to go? Is the exported bank account statement from Internet banking enough? Can we provide screenshots of transactions between our accounts in Internet banking? (The IB doesn't support a PDF export of selected payments, only full statements).
- If you are not working in Canada, provide other documentation that you can support the person(s) you are sponsoring: This one is defined very vaguely and yet it sounds very important. How extensive must be the explanation? Could somebody who has experience with similar applications provide more details?
Also, what kind of documents and how far back should we submit? We want to provide savings account statements, but again, these are generated in Internet banking as PDFs. Is that enough?
- What needs to be REALLY translated? We have a Rental agreement that consists of 10 pages on legal rules. From my perspective, only the 1st page with our names, addresses and information, and the last page with all the signatures matter. Do we need to translate it all? Is it fine to translate just 1st and last page and leave the rest untranslated? And what about the account statements? We have 120+ pages of the bank account statements from our shared account and our own accounts. How much might they be interested in?
- Do all the documents need to be translated legally/certified, or only the most important ones?
- I read a few times over that the documents like Bank account statements were translated by the applicants themselves. Is that really a possibility?
- Payment slips: does every part need to be translated? They contain a lot of abbreviations and local financial jargon.
Thank you.
Michal