Living with his parents

[Wanissa]

Im a Canadian citizen living outside canada and want to move back to canada . i recently got married i've been with my now husband for over 6 years due to religious reasons we couldn't live together until marriage .Now married we live with his parents and in the PR documents they ask for proof of cohabitation like electric bill or so but its his parents house what can we do ?????

 

[GandiBaat]

Im a Canadian citizen living outside canada and want to move back to canada . i recently got married i've been with my now husband for over 6 years due to religious reasons we couldn't live together until marriage .Now married we live with his parents and in the PR documents they ask for proof of cohabitation like electric bill or so but its his parents house what can we do ?????

Joint bank account. Combined phone plans. Joint insurance policy. All showing your place of residence same as him.

 

[armoured]

Joint bank account. Combined phone plans. Joint insurance policy. All showing your place of residence same as him.

Would add, any bills or purchases in one or both of your names - as long as not just from one of you. Any correspondence or bills, deliveries, payments for furniture purchased, etc.

You can also get letters from friends/family or lease agreement from parents.

Note: since you have been together for several years, document that as well. if that long-term relationship is well documented, the question of how much proof needed of living together after being married will likely be much less important.

[Or to put this simply: a couple that has only known each other for a month before legal marriage obviously will need more proof of living together after marriage to be credible. A couple that documents well their five-year + relationship living together and has kids probably doesn't need much at all. (Those in between, like you, well, in between those two cases)]

Warning (for others reading this): proof of living together for common law spouses is a different matter with its own nuances and critical points - eg a couple can be married without ever having lived together, but not common law.

 

[Wanissa]

Would add, any bills or purchases in one or both of your names - as long as not just from one of you. Any correspondence or bills, deliveries, payments for furniture purchased, etc.

You can also get letters from friends/family or lease agreement from parents.

Note: since you have been together for several years, document that as well. if that long-term relationship is well documented, the question of how much proof needed of living together after being married will likely be much less important.

[Or to put this simply: a couple that has only known each other for a month before legal marriage obviously will need more proof of living together after marriage to be credible. A couple that documents well their five-year + relationship living together and has kids probably doesn't need much at all. (Those in between, like you, well, in between those two cases)]

Warning (for others reading this): proof of living together for common law spouses is a different matter with its own nuances and critical points - eg a couple can be married without ever having lived together, but not common law.

Proof like facebook conversations (with date) and picture are good? And how can my friend me a letter and what to say in it?
Ps: Thank you for the info you' re a life saver

 

[armoured]

Proof like facebook conversations (with date) and picture are good? And how can my friend me a letter and what to say in it?
Ps: Thank you for the info you' re a life saver

You'll have to decide which types of proof/evidence are best and most appropriate.

Letters: free-form, mainly obviously to support the facts of your relationship/joint residence (or whatever point you're trying to support). Only comment I'd make about content is ask your friends to keep it brief, factual and specific - not general "oh I know them they love each other very much, thy're a perfect couple." Specific events, dates, frequency of seeing each other, how long you've known each other, etc.