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Common-law partner wants to break up after doing medicals

Otakukid

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Mar 26, 2014
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So to try to make things brief, I am a PR living in Canada on route to citizenship. Canada is home, I love Canada and I want to stay here.

Been with my partner for a few years now and have been in a serious relationship. We put in an common-law application while she's in her own country and it says it has been approved and she already has done her medicals.

Over the past couple of months though we have been thinking about things seriously. Both her parents are old and have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses this year and so she decided to stay with them as they have no other family to look after them. Me of course realistically I can't move there with her since I don't speak her language and the country has a very complex immigration system and doesn't really have immigrants since they make up less than 1% of the population.
Sure she can come to Canada and live with me but I know and she knows she's going to be living here with constant worry and regret.

So what steps do I do now? Because I've already included her in this years taxes since we are common-law. We hired a lawyer for all of this but because it's a public holiday so I won't get an answer until tomorrow probably so I am asking here for now.

So now I am just wondering the steps I should take to finalize this? She says it's fine and that down along the line a couple of years from now she might go to Canada to use her PR since theres the 2 year rule. However I've read briefly in the past that she's supposed to be financially dependent on me and that we should consider ourselves common-law?

It's all too confusing so I'm wondering if anybody knows more. Thanks.
 

21Goose

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It's not clear what you're asking.

1. Do you want to withdraw your sponsorship? If so, yes, you can withdraw since she hasn't yet become a PR.
2. Or are you asking about something else? If so, what's the question?
 

k.h.p.

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Mar 1, 2019
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Unless she has received her confirmation of PR, she hasn't finished the process - and even then, she needs to come to Canada to activate it.

If the relationship has fallen apart to the point where she's not coming to Canada, you need to apply to withdraw the sponsorship. If she doesn't come to Canada, you won't be responsible for her.

The "approval" part of your application is likely your application to be a sponsor, not her sponsorship.
 
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StephanH

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So to try to make things brief, I am a PR living in Canada on route to citizenship. Canada is home, I love Canada and I want to stay here.

Been with my partner for a few years now and have been in a serious relationship. We put in an common-law application while she's in her own country and it says it has been approved and she already has done her medicals.

Over the past couple of months though we have been thinking about things seriously. Both her parents are old and have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses this year and so she decided to stay with them as they have no other family to look after them. Me of course realistically I can't move there with her since I don't speak her language and the country has a very complex immigration system and doesn't really have immigrants since they make up less than 1% of the population.
Sure she can come to Canada and live with me but I know and she knows she's going to be living here with constant worry and regret.

So what steps do I do now? Because I've already included her in this years taxes since we are common-law. We hired a lawyer for all of this but because it's a public holiday so I won't get an answer until tomorrow probably so I am asking here for now.

So now I am just wondering the steps I should take to finalize this? She says it's fine and that down along the line a couple of years from now she might go to Canada to use her PR since theres the 2 year rule. However I've read briefly in the past that she's supposed to be financially dependent on me and that we should consider ourselves common-law?

It's all too confusing so I'm wondering if anybody knows more. Thanks.
Common-law while she is in her own Country? You have said that "Been with my partner for a few years now and have been in a serious relationship." Did you actually live with your partner? and where did you live together if you did? You know that common-law you must be cohabiting with your partner for 1 year.