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I was just making a joke. I agree with you and believe marriage is a pretty meaningless government label (for me personally; I completely respect how significant it is to other people), so if it means I can work and have access to health care that much sooner, it's completely worth it for us.

I'm nowhere close to as knowledgeable as everyone else here, but from what I understand, you need to be able to demonstrate in some way that the sponsor does plan to live in Canada once everyone else has PR. This could mean having a place to live, having a job lined up, letters or emails to...

I agree; it's completely ridiculous. Luckily I'm in a situation where we are ready to get married and were just putting it off because we want to save money for the move to Canada, so maybe we'll do it on paper and have the ceremony and whatnot later. I definitely feel for people who have to...

Can anyone else offer any thoughts or anecdotal evidence on this? Just so when I tell my partner we need to get married, I can be like, "No, no, honey, I'm not suggesting we get married just because a random stranger on the internet said it might get our application processed faster, TWO random...

Thank you. I keep hearing people say, "Just get married; it will make it so much easier" but without any explanation. I wondered if maybe married couples are subject to less scrutiny, but that seemed unlikely to me.

Can anyone comment on doing the process as common law partners vs. spouses? My partner and I, who have lived together for two years, would prefer to wait to get married, but we'll do anything to make this process easier. Does it make a significant difference in any way?