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Help please! I (Australian) am being sponsored by my common law partner (Canadian). I have no children and he has 2 children (Canadian citizens - 7 and 11 yrs old). I am just about to send my application in and assume I do not have to complete the IMM 0008DEP form as I have no dependents - is...

Help please! I (Australian) am being sponsored by my common law partner (Canadian). Does the form IMM 5409 (Statutory Declaration of a Common Law Union) need to be completed? From what I read it only needs to be completed if the sponsor application has a co-signer - is this correct? (I...

Help please! I (Australian) am being sponsored by my common law partner (Canadian). I have no children and he has 2 children (Canadian citizens - 7 and 11 yrs old). From what I read on the CIC website he is only required to fill out IMM 5481 (Sponsorship Evaluation) and not IMM 1283...

Thanks for the info - I have decided my best option is to apply outland. I am currently filling out the forms and wondering if my common law partner (Canadian who is sponsoring me) needs to fill out a copy of the following forms: Background/Declaration (IMM 5669) and Additional Family...

Thanks for the valuable advice, It looks like the current processing time is 85 days (for sponsor) and then 11 months (through the Australian office) so it is almost a year quicker to complete the whole process (comparing outland to inland). It is of course a challenging situation to be living...

Hi -wondering if anyone can help me? I am currently living in Canada with my common law partner and am planning to apply for PR through the Family Class Sponsorship. I have noticed the outland processing times are faster (Australia) - am I able to apply outland while still remaining in Canada...

Hi - I am an Australian citizen in a relationship with a Canadian - I would like to apply for PR as common-law with my partner, but to do so we have to live together for 12 months uninterrupted....(we have been together for 2 1/2 yrs) So first I am applying to extend my visitor visa so that I...

Hi - I am an Australian citizen in a relationship with a Canadian - I would like to apply for PR as common-law with my partner, but to do so we have to live together for 12 months uninterrupted....(we have been together for 2 1/2 yrs) So first I am applying to extend my visitor visa so that I...

Thanks for making that clear - I will be returning to Canada in April to live with my partner so I guess I will have to get a tourist visa for 6 months and try to extend it to 12 months to get common-law status....and go from there - thankyou for the info....

Need help with this question before I apply! To apply for the family class visa as a common law partner, does the living together for 12 months have to be continuous? I have been in a relationship with my Canadian partner for 2 years, but we have only lived at the same address for 4 months...