Hi,
I am from new Zealand. I met my partner online in 2015 and came here 2016. I've retained legal status and stayed here ever since then. My IEC expires August 2019. We are about to file just wondering if our stuff is sufficient..
- in my job I have no benefits so I can't list him as beneficiary.
-my partner ONLY got his full time job related to his education in 2018 October, so we moved together to London Ontario from Toronto.. He will have benefits and i am his beneficiary.
-we do not own a car so there's no beneficiary or insurance there....
-neither of us have life insurance as we feel that it's a scam given our age (20s)
-signed lease with partner's mother in 2016( free stay just do chores ) until we moved out in March 2018.. We have lease forms from there.from landlords.
-have 20 photos of us,, all random get together. Although we really did more in 2018 than 2016 and 2017 as we didn't have good jobs and I didn't have IEC until late 2017. Hoping that's explainable.
-have joint bank account since 2017 may and he dissolved his old bank account and we only use the joint bank with joint credit cards
-filed taxes as common law for 2017, albeit not much (I only got $15 in return. . Lol)
-will get some signed letters from his mother and aunt (father not present ) and my side of family and i suffered abuse so I cut them off years ago and I'm fully independent. Is that fine ? Also letters from friends...im thinking have them attach photos of their license with it just to be better ..
-in October 2016 I left Ontario for 30 days to take care of my partners grandfather who was hit by a car and was in hospital. I took care of her as my partner worked(min wage.) should I get his family to clarify that too? Since I'm not sure if that's a break in common law but it's now been two years in total so I'm not sure if we should clarify ?
We live together so do we need to send chat logs of how we met online ..? We lost skype but managed to transfer the word data convo between us so it's on a word pad... But I think we'd drive the officer insane if we sent all of it in and we also do live together now ...
Does social media count ? If not I don't know if I'd like to include that ...
Is there anything I'm missing ? The more the merrier and I'd appreciate the help please ! Thank you.
I'm just stressed as we have way more vacations and dates and even a trip to Alberta but all done in 2018. I hope officers won't be suspicious that we didn't do as much back then but I'm hoping that if we explain that I didn't work back then and he had a minimum wage job (was looking for a job related to his field of study and couldn't find one until now ) I'm hoping that's fine.....? :/
I'm applying inland as I have a very decent job and I hope owp won't be declined. In total I had visitor status which was changed to IEC (IEC app listed my partner as common law already as it was late 2017).
I am from new Zealand. I met my partner online in 2015 and came here 2016. I've retained legal status and stayed here ever since then. My IEC expires August 2019. We are about to file just wondering if our stuff is sufficient..
- in my job I have no benefits so I can't list him as beneficiary.
-my partner ONLY got his full time job related to his education in 2018 October, so we moved together to London Ontario from Toronto.. He will have benefits and i am his beneficiary.
-we do not own a car so there's no beneficiary or insurance there....
-neither of us have life insurance as we feel that it's a scam given our age (20s)
-signed lease with partner's mother in 2016( free stay just do chores ) until we moved out in March 2018.. We have lease forms from there.from landlords.
-have 20 photos of us,, all random get together. Although we really did more in 2018 than 2016 and 2017 as we didn't have good jobs and I didn't have IEC until late 2017. Hoping that's explainable.
-have joint bank account since 2017 may and he dissolved his old bank account and we only use the joint bank with joint credit cards
-filed taxes as common law for 2017, albeit not much (I only got $15 in return. . Lol)
-will get some signed letters from his mother and aunt (father not present ) and my side of family and i suffered abuse so I cut them off years ago and I'm fully independent. Is that fine ? Also letters from friends...im thinking have them attach photos of their license with it just to be better ..
-in October 2016 I left Ontario for 30 days to take care of my partners grandfather who was hit by a car and was in hospital. I took care of her as my partner worked(min wage.) should I get his family to clarify that too? Since I'm not sure if that's a break in common law but it's now been two years in total so I'm not sure if we should clarify ?
We live together so do we need to send chat logs of how we met online ..? We lost skype but managed to transfer the word data convo between us so it's on a word pad... But I think we'd drive the officer insane if we sent all of it in and we also do live together now ...
Does social media count ? If not I don't know if I'd like to include that ...
Is there anything I'm missing ? The more the merrier and I'd appreciate the help please ! Thank you.
I'm just stressed as we have way more vacations and dates and even a trip to Alberta but all done in 2018. I hope officers won't be suspicious that we didn't do as much back then but I'm hoping that if we explain that I didn't work back then and he had a minimum wage job (was looking for a job related to his field of study and couldn't find one until now ) I'm hoping that's fine.....? :/
I'm applying inland as I have a very decent job and I hope owp won't be declined. In total I had visitor status which was changed to IEC (IEC app listed my partner as common law already as it was late 2017).