Some people that don't declare a common-law partner simply don't realize the definition of common-law according to CIC and think since there is no common-law status in their own country, they don't need to declare it. Often a case of not reading or understanding the CIC guidelines well enough.mikeymyke said:As bad as it is, I can understand why some of these people don't declare their marriages when they themselves were sponsored as a dependent through their parents. It's because a dependent cannot get PR if they are married. Lot of these guys are more concerned about getting PR than their own spouse.
I don't understand however, why someone who applies to get PR through a skilled worker program would want to deliberately fail to declare their spouse. Is there something I'm missing here?
Other times as you said, it's fraud in that they wouldn't be eligible under their parents if they have a spouse. So they think they can enter as single and then simply apply for their spouses later. I'm sure most are not aware that the extreme rule of a spouse being banned permanently under family class, even exists.
A lot of these cases could be avoided if they included this basic info in the COPR package (moreso than they do today), and what the consequences are for not reporting changes to your family.