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Thanks. The documents on the checklist are many pages (translated divorce certificates are 8 pages, translated birth certificates, national IDs, family booklets, passports, stamps...about 20 pages in total). We got an accountant to certify this. So we need a notary instead? Expensive, but happy...

So the problem is the copies we sent the Canada-based translators were certified by a professional accountant, not a notary? Is that it? Does a notary need to certify everything we photocopy then - passports, IDs, birth certificates, passport stamps etc?

Thanks, Scyla, Maina. Since September: Together: In London end of September till november 6. Apart: for a week (her in Canada, me packing in Spain) nov 6-13 Together: in Canada nov 13-dec 13 Apart: xmas (her in Canada, me in Spain) dec 13-jan 10 Together: in Spain and Canada Jan 10-Feb 13...

Thank you. Interestingly, there definition of common-law reads "Has been living with you for at least 12 consecutive months. That means you have been living together continuously for one year, without any long periods apart. One of you may have left the home for work or business travel, family...

We have been in a relationship for 26 months, 15 of them living together but not consecutively. We want to live 12 consecutive months together now so our question: Last September I worked in London, UK, for 1.5 months and my partner came from Canada and stayed with me. Then we traveled for...

Thanks. We are starting to realise we will have to do that. We paid almost $1k in fees. I guess we can ask for them back? and we will reapply when we will have been living together for 12 consecutive months.

Thanks! How do we call CIC? We are having trouble finding a person to talk to and they really did not explain what is supposed to be wrong so we dont know how to fix it.

Thanks again, really appreciate the help. I got married when I moved to Australia years back. We loved each other and were together for years, but the divorce was awful. I would like to avoid getting married again as i dont even believe in marriage and thankfully Canada supports people with...

Thanks, Mileaway, everyone. "Immigration barrier" now understood. So no conjugal at all then. And no common-law since we have lived together for 15 out of 26 months but no consecutively (as my partner needed to go back to Canada during her MFA summer holidays and work). So the only chance it...

Thanks, everyone. It is clear we will not be able to apply as conjugal then. Problem is common law means I will have to move to Canada for a year and not be able to work and that is challenging for many reasons - one salary (we are freelancers, so sometimes none), my career dying. And I can only...

Thanks again. This bit is what confused us: "One reason might be because you are living in separate countries and there is an immigration barrier". That is exactly why we did not live together. She cannot live in Spain. I cannot live in Canada. So we can go with conjugal then? Everybody says it...

Thanks! this is very tricky because how can two people who dont have the right of residence to each other countries actually live together for 12 months? If i could have lived in Canada for 12 consecutive months, why would I need a visa? I thought conjugal applied to people who could not live...

We have been asked to send certified copies of all the original documents and we are a bit unclear of what we did wrong. We found an official translator from their list of approved translators and we sent them photocopies of the original documents in Spanish. The translator stamped every...

My partner is Canadian and I am from Spain. We met while she was doing her MFA in London, where I was living at the time. We moved in together (I did not put her on the lease of my apartment, at that point we did not know we would be moving to Canada two years later). After two years we applied...