Common-law Question

[ruanp28]

Hi all. So our common-law application has been sent almost 6 months ago in September. Last week, our visa office asked the sponsor to provide proof that she will settle in Canada. We kind of panicked, because we have already given them 150 pages of proof with the original application. My fiance then decided that she and her sister will fly over to Canada in June to establish themselves, and to prove to the officer that her intentions are real. As such, she resigned her job and booked a plane ticket and we sent the proof to the visa office. According to average statistics, our application should be done by September but to prove to the visa officer that her intentions are true, she will be moving in June 2019. Now, if our application is not approved by then, will it cause and issue since she is separate from me although we applied under common-law? We just wanted to fulfill the visa officer's wishes, and this is the best way we could think of. I assume that it would be fine, since our proof of cohabitation was already sent with the original app. Should we rather not do this?

 

[Hurlabrick]

Your proof of co-habitation and one year continuous must be up to the date you signed and sent the application in, it does not have to continue while your application is being processed, especially as you say, because your sponsor is going ahead to set things up in Canada in anticipation of a successful outcome!

PS - it is not at all unusual for CIC to ask for more information of the sponsors intent to return to Canada. If you have alreay provided more proof, just restate your plans, but in more detail - normally works.

 

[ruanp28]

Your proof of co-habitation and one year continuous must be up to the date you signed and sent the application in, it does not have to continue while your application is being processed, especially as you say, because your sponsor is going ahead to set things up in Canada in anticipation of a successful outcome!

PS - it is not at all unusual for CIC to ask for more information of the sponsors intent to return to Canada. If you have alreay provided more proof, just restate your plans, but in more detail - normally works.

Thanks a lot. Yes I honestly hope they can see her proof now. I mean, resigning a job and buying a ticket is no joke. Our application was sent in 6 months ago, so spending 3 months apart is better than 12 I guess. Now I just have to hope and pray that the visa officer does not take too long with the remaining part of my application. Our timeline is different than others, since we only received medical request a week ago (almost 6 months in). Based on my research on our local visa office, they usually request medicals 30 days after AOR2 and file transfer. Then passport request usually follows within 2 months after that. Only thing I am now worried about is the lady at immigration section told me my file is prepared for the visa officer as soon as my medicals are done. MEaning in 6 months they have not really touched my section. That is a bit scary, unless they only need like 2 months to do it. My background check has been "in process" since January haha. Very confusing...

 

[ZahidGani]

Where are you moving from and where will you be moving to?
We did Cape Town to Vancouver about a year ago.