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I think it's just the usual PSA yellow/brown paper they use for Marriage Certificates, Cenomars, etc.

Agree with @ERCAN. IRCC suggests sending an LOE when there is a required document you have not attached. I think, in such case, the IRCC expects you to provide reasons for not being able to get the document. I do not think the IRCC expects you the write, saying that you don't want to wait for...

I can understand (albeit to a limited extent) keeping a marriage secret from family and friends. But to say you kept the fact of the marriage from the IRCC because it was secret is a nonsensical reason. Did you think the IRCC was going to tell your family and friends about it? You chose to...

Oo, may pusong salawahan siya, tulad ng sa kanta ni Mystica ng pamagat na iyon :)

It seems the advice of some here is that you and husband should plan to conceal from the IRCC that you are separated and no longer a couple. I am not sure that is right, but very much the way things are done in today's world. A little misrepresentation never hurt anyone, right? So, in that...

There's scope for pursuant spousal and child support in Canada. "Alimony" is not so much a Canadian law concept, but available under different nomenclature.

Then you are probably aware of Phils adultery laws and the rights they give you. In that regard, I would depart from @scylla's advice that there is "zero" you can do to the woman or that she has broken no laws. True, she has broken not Canadian law. However, in the Phils, there is quite a...

The "family", is that children you have with this man?

You have not said what is your country of residence or where you were married. You may have legal options in your present country and possibly in Canada. Options against the girl may exist in your country. None in Canada, not since Canada eliminated the tort of "alienation of affection".

Thank you very much @armoured. Sensible advice, as always. The parents are a Filipino couple, both have Canada PR status. She's in Canada right now and he's back in Phils for awhile. Anyway, I'll pass this on and I would guess that, between them, they can come up with a way to do as you...

I today received email from someone I do not know well asking how to deal with a recent rejection of their application to sponsor 2 pre-teen children from the Philippines. I guess they found out I helped family members and thought I somehow knew all this stuff, which I don't. Because this...

I feel constrained to sound a note of caution here. @mj_pinay, I know I am swimming upstream when I say do not expect that all will be revealed in the GCMS notes, as also suggested by @sendtomaddy. I'll take it they are drawing on favourable personal experience. They are not alone. Many...

Your assumptions are partly correct. My (now) wife was my gf at the time of our first application in January 2020. It was denied in February 2020, just before Covid descended on the planet. So, that time, even if approved, she probably would not have been allowed to come to Canada anyway...

As @foodie69 pointed out, this poster seems to have answered his own question to his apparent satisfaction and does not want to hear of any view counter to that. Just came here to pick a fight perhaps. Fwiw, I note the IRCC CEC webpage does appear to defer to the CRA when it comes to...

Very good that you got TRV, but I think perhaps you are painting too rosy a picture overall. The "spousal TRV policy" to which you refer is not an "official policy" and probably not a policy at all. In the wake of (then) Immigration Minister Sean Fraser making an announcement last year about...

A procedural fairness letter is generally a fairly serious matter and requires a considered response, especially if a 5-year ban is to be avoided. You have not said here that the VO was mistaken in saying you have a US visa refusal on your record. Failure to disclose such a thing is taken...

I maybe should have been more obvious in showing the dozen roses idea was not serious. Certainly in Canada, and some other places, such a gift seems to be strongly identified with some kind of romantic interest. Flowers might be okay, but a bouquet of roses would not be the best choice.

Generally agree with @KClaire. I will assume the attorney worked for a fee and did not work "pro bono", i.e., for free. In that case, and assuming you paid usual attorney fees, but are now very happy with the result, there is really no expected form of "thank you". You paid her bill. Of...

Too late to be permitted to edit, but, on re-reading my post, I see that I said, in part: There are also some circumstances where no licence is required to marry in the Phils. One is if you have lived in a common law relationship with your betrothed for years or more. That should read "for 5...

Somehow I was under the impression babae ka. Dahil lalaki ka, walang problema! If you can rebook and wait, that's best. No need then to worry about encountering some difficult IO in the last minute.