Hey folks!
I'm being sponsored as a common-law partner. My partner and I have been together for 6 years. Our year of continuous cohabitation happened during college. We moved 3 times during our time cohabitation. We anticipated being able to easily prove it, we have an enormous amount of circumstantial evidence (letters, packages shipped to the right addresses, bank statements proving we were in right are at right time, etc.) but we are lacking the basic things — leases, utility bills, and the like evade us.
We've contacted our MP and ordered our GMCS notes (is that the acronym?). The MP has ideas for how to help us frame an explanatory letter and will write a letter of support. We're also getting married this week (yay!!!). We pushed our marriage date forward a bit for a variety of reasons, wondering if that will effect our application at all though?
We have another 2 weeks before we have to reply to the procedural fairness letter and my partner had the idea of posting the following on Facebook with the idea of getting friends & family to reply. She thought it could work as a public post or if we invited the appropriate people into a private group and posted it there. The idea is screenshotting responses to the post and sending them as evidence, as we always lived with roommates and had friends and family come to these homes.
It obviously has to be grammatically fixed and every time you see "*'s* it's where I've just removed some personal info so as to keep this private. We're concerned with the idea in general, less so the wording of the post itself, I'll fix that.
Here it is:
Hey friends! *Name* and *Name* here to give you a major life update and to ask for a moment of your time and memories. - [ ] As some of you might know, I was banned from the USA for 5 years in February of 2017 (3 years left! Woop!) I was falsely accused of making money on my music while I was living near *New York Town* with *Name* and *Name* recording what was going to be a new album with *band name*. I was forced to move to Montreal and begin my life all over again in the city I was born in but hadn’t lived in since toddlerhood. - [ ] A few months later, *Name* came to join me in montreal and we began his application for permanent residency in Canada as my ‘common law partner.’ In Canada you are allowed to sponsor a romantic partner if you can prove that you lived together continuously for one year. We naively thought that we could easily prove our cohabitation through explaining that we lived together in the same room in *college dorm* in 2013-2014,over the following summer in a subletted apartment in Medford, Massachusetts, and in the Fall of 2014 at *Address*. Add that to our time living together in the van, in tents and travelling together, plus the fact that we’ve been together for almost 6 years, we thought we would have no trouble convincing immigration of the legitimacy of our common-law partnership. The immigration forms said that if we didn’t have joint leases or phone bills, all they needed was an explanation letter plus tons of pictures and recommendation letters from those close to us. Fast forward to one year after submitting our application and we have been informed that after our initial application AND their request for follow-up information, immigration Canada STILL doesn’t believe that we have enough evidence backing up our year of cohabitation. We have 30 days to convince them or *Name* will be refused and we will be separated, with the possibility of us both being banned from each other’s countries. I can’t even begin to describe just how horrible this would be. - [ ] Anyhow, we were hoping we could ask a big favour of y’all. If you have anything to say about my and *Name's* relationship, memories or anecdotes or maybe a photo of us hiding away in your google photos, please add them to this thread. Any memories pertaining to us living together at *College dorm*, in *Near boston* and in *New York* would be especially helpful. Even tiny, seemingly insignificant memories help! You saw us buying baguettes every weekend at *Town* bakery? Write it! You saw me filling up the gas in his car? Write it! Don’t remember anything specific but know that our relationship is real? ‘Like’ this status! We think the numbers of engagements could help. We hope to screenshot our responses and send them as a final piece of evidence to justify our case and prove our legitimate relationship. - [ ] Thank you so much for your participation in this. All we want is to be allowed to be together and to finally begin building our lives together. If any one has any follow-up questions please feel free to ask us in a personal message. - [ ] Thanks again - [ ] *Name* and *Name*
I'm being sponsored as a common-law partner. My partner and I have been together for 6 years. Our year of continuous cohabitation happened during college. We moved 3 times during our time cohabitation. We anticipated being able to easily prove it, we have an enormous amount of circumstantial evidence (letters, packages shipped to the right addresses, bank statements proving we were in right are at right time, etc.) but we are lacking the basic things — leases, utility bills, and the like evade us.
We've contacted our MP and ordered our GMCS notes (is that the acronym?). The MP has ideas for how to help us frame an explanatory letter and will write a letter of support. We're also getting married this week (yay!!!). We pushed our marriage date forward a bit for a variety of reasons, wondering if that will effect our application at all though?
We have another 2 weeks before we have to reply to the procedural fairness letter and my partner had the idea of posting the following on Facebook with the idea of getting friends & family to reply. She thought it could work as a public post or if we invited the appropriate people into a private group and posted it there. The idea is screenshotting responses to the post and sending them as evidence, as we always lived with roommates and had friends and family come to these homes.
It obviously has to be grammatically fixed and every time you see "*'s* it's where I've just removed some personal info so as to keep this private. We're concerned with the idea in general, less so the wording of the post itself, I'll fix that.
Here it is:
Hey friends! *Name* and *Name* here to give you a major life update and to ask for a moment of your time and memories. - [ ] As some of you might know, I was banned from the USA for 5 years in February of 2017 (3 years left! Woop!) I was falsely accused of making money on my music while I was living near *New York Town* with *Name* and *Name* recording what was going to be a new album with *band name*. I was forced to move to Montreal and begin my life all over again in the city I was born in but hadn’t lived in since toddlerhood. - [ ] A few months later, *Name* came to join me in montreal and we began his application for permanent residency in Canada as my ‘common law partner.’ In Canada you are allowed to sponsor a romantic partner if you can prove that you lived together continuously for one year. We naively thought that we could easily prove our cohabitation through explaining that we lived together in the same room in *college dorm* in 2013-2014,over the following summer in a subletted apartment in Medford, Massachusetts, and in the Fall of 2014 at *Address*. Add that to our time living together in the van, in tents and travelling together, plus the fact that we’ve been together for almost 6 years, we thought we would have no trouble convincing immigration of the legitimacy of our common-law partnership. The immigration forms said that if we didn’t have joint leases or phone bills, all they needed was an explanation letter plus tons of pictures and recommendation letters from those close to us. Fast forward to one year after submitting our application and we have been informed that after our initial application AND their request for follow-up information, immigration Canada STILL doesn’t believe that we have enough evidence backing up our year of cohabitation. We have 30 days to convince them or *Name* will be refused and we will be separated, with the possibility of us both being banned from each other’s countries. I can’t even begin to describe just how horrible this would be. - [ ] Anyhow, we were hoping we could ask a big favour of y’all. If you have anything to say about my and *Name's* relationship, memories or anecdotes or maybe a photo of us hiding away in your google photos, please add them to this thread. Any memories pertaining to us living together at *College dorm*, in *Near boston* and in *New York* would be especially helpful. Even tiny, seemingly insignificant memories help! You saw us buying baguettes every weekend at *Town* bakery? Write it! You saw me filling up the gas in his car? Write it! Don’t remember anything specific but know that our relationship is real? ‘Like’ this status! We think the numbers of engagements could help. We hope to screenshot our responses and send them as a final piece of evidence to justify our case and prove our legitimate relationship. - [ ] Thank you so much for your participation in this. All we want is to be allowed to be together and to finally begin building our lives together. If any one has any follow-up questions please feel free to ask us in a personal message. - [ ] Thanks again - [ ] *Name* and *Name*
