Additional Documents - Additional proof of relationship

[lovelywhite7]

Hi,

Yesterday, CIC contacted my husband asking for additional documents to prove our relationship. I am a Canadian citizen and my husband is South korean.

We've already sent them a lot of pictures, of our dates and of our weddings (we had two - one in Korea and one in Canada), photocopies of our marriage certificates from both countries, lease agreement with both our names, and a document showing our joint bank account. So I'm wondering if it's a bad thing that the documents we've sent are not enough to prove our relationship.

This is what was written in the email.

Proof of Relationship: Document proving your relationship with your inviter/family member Please provide additional documents proving your relationship with your sponsor. This includes but is not limited to: outing and wedding pictures, e-mail exchanges, cards, identity documents showing same address, insurance policies, wills, anything naming your partner as beneficiary, documents showing travel together, documents showing joint ownership of possessions, joint mortgage/loan/rental agreement/bank accounts, etc.

Honestly, we don't know what else to send. We could send letters and cards, but those were all written in Korean.

They've also asked us to pay this:

RPRF, Family Class: Have your sponsor pay the Right of Permanent Residence fee in Canada

Help?

 

[CDNPR2014]

well the fact they are asking for the RPRF is good in my opinion. they normally wouldn't ask for it if there was a major concern. here are my recommendations:
- send everything you have again, perhaps reorganizing it and making sure everything is labeled, providing a letter explaining what you are submitting.
- for the pictures sent, it may be helpful to write more information than just the dates. for example, you can write a brief summary of the event, where it was, who was there, what vendors were used. also, provide details of who is in each picture.
- if you have a wedding invitation and vendor receipts, guest lists, etc. - send copies of them
- see if you can get letters from family members/friends stating they know of your relationship, attended the wedding, etc.
- If your pictures did not have other people in them, find ones that do.
- If you have social media accounts, provide screenshots of your communication and or proof or relationship on the site (ie: relationship change statuses, pictures posted, comments from friends/family about you two, etc.

Your guess is good as anyone else's why they are asking for more proof AND the RPRF at the same time. I am not sure that is common, though it could be visa office specific and I'm not familiar with your visa office.

 

[lovelywhite7]

Thanks for the info!!

I guess I was a little shocked that they would ask for more information. We gave them marriage certificates from TWO countries and pictures from before and after we got married.

 

[Kayaker]

I guess there are two possibilities: 1) they lost the proof you sent, or lost some of it. 2) they deemed what you sent insufficient.

If I were you, I'd cover all my bases and send a lot of what I already sent (while mentioning in a cover letter that this was sent already, FYI!) and add more proof, perhaps also proof of the relationship after you submitted your docs for PR. All the things CDNPR2014 suggested are excellent. I think my own application might have been overkill (I'm Japanese, also Manila VO, I don't believe Japanese and Korean people have high rejection rates) but better safe than sorry... You could also mention that there is more proof but you whittled it down to a reasonable amount. (We sent them maybe 20, 30 pages of chat history, but I mentioned I could send them chat logs going back xx months totaling 600 pages in Word format if they want to see them...)

Good luck!

P.S. They sent back all the proof we had sent them when they sent me my COPR. That was a stack a couple of inches high. (And most of it looked untouched, especially all the chat logs and Skype call records and whatnot. They seemed to have looked through photos and screenshots of our Facebook mostly.) At least now we've got a really thorough collection of our relationship that we can go through when we're old and senile and don't remember!