Hi everyone
Am new here, I know this group is for people that have appealed already. Am here because I believe someone here can help me.
Am in trouble, I got a pfl Letter 3 days ago based on previous marriage ground.
I was previously married in court, No church wedding and no traditional wedding or paying of bride price. Am a Nigerian and my previous spouse is a Nigeria too. According to my custom and tradition if a man did not pay the bride price of a woman there's no marriage, even if they did court marriage, the woman is still seen as being single.
I had a problem with my previous spouse, I divorced him in court which I have the divorce certificate.
During the process of the divorce, I met my husband, who is a Canadian. After the previous marriage was finalised and I I had the divorce certificate in my hand. I proceeded with marriage to my Canadian husband.
When I was filling my spousal visa, I filled in "Never married " as my status. I did that because of my custom and tradition as the previous husband did not pay my Bride price, my custom and tradition still said am single. When I was submitting my application, I did not submit the divorce certificate and I never mentioned divorce in the application.
2 months after i submitted, I found out that i was supposed to mention divorced and submit the divorce certificate, instead of following my tradition and custom as I did. I told my husband that I want to withdraw the application, he said no that the application has gone far already. That if immigration denied the application based on that, that he will speak it. So I left it.
Recently someone was threatened to report previous marriage me to immigration and destroy my PR.
So because of that, I decided to withdraw the PR, I sent in a withdrawal message by Email and via Web form , to CIC, one hour later I got a pfl Letter from CIC.
The pfl said that I didn't mention in my application about the previous marriage and I didn't mention that I was divorced and submit the required documents. They gave me 30day to reply.
Please anyone here that have had similar issues or have any idea on how i can solve this problem. Please help me. it will be highly appreciated.
Thank you
Lizzer