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Ok, thanks for your input, that's what I wanted to know. I guess I will stick with "1st cousin once removed" and add "of similar age" to show there's no significant age gap between us.

The application form asks if you are related so I obviously have to answer that unless you are saying I lie on it. As for cousin marriage, its extremely common and acceptable in our culture(maybe not for you specifically) , and as far as I read its legal in most countries of the world including...

Hi guys I would appreciate if someone can answer this for me. I am a Canadian citizen, married to my wife for over two and half years and we have a daughter together who is already a Canadian citizen because of me. Now I am about to submit our application to sponsor my wife ( it has been a...

yes we have all the divorce papers. I honestly wouldn't use one either, but I am just overthinking excessively, I had a pain problem that had really messed up my life and for that reason we held a small ceremony but we didn't even document that properly. Like for eg no pictures of rukhsati (wife...

Together we have spent 10 months after marriage, 4 after marriage, 2+4 on subsequent visits). Before marriage, we were related and neighbours, and I lived there for 4 years during which time we had interactions on weekly basis (going to each other's house for various reasons). I think it would...

I am a Canadian citizen sponsoring my wife who is in Pakistan. my concerns are: wife is previously divorced 14 years ago in arranged marriage. big age gap, her ex husband 14 years older, relationship only lasted 22 days, divorce finalized few months later. our marriage was a small ceremony...

ok thanks, I was trying to overly explain so that it was clear to officer that it wasn't just meant to be a birthday, but now will mention it as combined marriage & birthday celebration in IMM5532 and attach a short LOE. I guess from pics they will be able to make out that it was a combined event.

ok thanks everyone for your replies, I am thinking of listing the event as marriage celebration in the IMM5532, and write a LOE so that I can explain how/why doing it on our daughter's birthday made it more meaningful or special for us. Hopefully it won't come across as misleading. Because if I...

I am super confused now, so celebrating our daughter's 1st birthday together cannot be accepted as commitment ceremony? esp when most of the event is also showing our relationship is being recognized? Because if I cannot list this as event, it would delay our application more as our...

Hello everyone, I am hoping if you can help me regarding our application/ situation to apply my wife's sponsorship. We are married 2 years and 3 months. In IMM 5532, there is question asking "Were there formal events to recognize or celebrate your relationship eg engagement ceremony...

Yes, will definitely mention that also as another reason.

ok thanks I really appreciate your help on this, I was lost before, I felt like I had to explain every aspect of what I went through to explain for choosing to do a simple ceremony, but definitely now I will keep it brief and to the point and phrase it how you said.

ok thanks i will note your suggestions, but you saying "when I needed support, we decided to marry" sounds like relationship is transaction, but for me it felt more like interdependence on each other. But this thread has helped me a lot so I'm gonna make sure I'm more concise and not make it...

ok I'm definitely gonna talk about our relationship from when we started to now as husband and wife, I didn't forget this, but am I ok to mention in a sentence or two that we had a simple marriage ceremony because of my pain/health situation at the time?? and then attach 7-8 medical reports or...

thanks guys for your replies, yeah I will submit it soon myself and hopefully it will go all smooth. just waiting on chats translation. at YVR123, when you say take the "dealing with your pain" issue from your description, can you clarify what you mean by it? Like what you said here is a lot...

I have no debts and never had any assistance, my income tax is little bit low like 22k for 2022, and maybe it'll be 26k for 2023 for self employed, but I'm hoping to explain that because I spent half of the time from both years on family visits.

Can our application be refused because of my medical documents? For ex can they say that since I had this condition 2 plus years ago, it may manifest again and I may not be able to support my family? Even if I have had no issue since my treatment. Also I have not been on any sort of assistance.

thanks for your support, it means a lot. i hope i can send this in soon.

The document checklist asks photos of your wedding, customary celebrations, engagement, and/or outings. Since it uses the phrase "or outings" can I just provide many of our outings, birthday pics and perhaps the visa officer would be satisfied and not ask about marriage day pics? this is my...

By related, she is the granddaughter of my paternal aunt. At the same time, we liked each other, talked on phone everyday and occasionally saw each other when I was in Pakistan. When I said getting married this way because of pain, what I mean to say is at that time because of how the pain...