Hi All,
I've been following this forum for some time throughout this process, flicking through has been so useful but now I need some specific help, and hope somebody can help me.
My partner and I are British Citizens, and he has PR status in Canada, we applied for common law sponsorship outland via london in December 2010, the first stage of our application was accepted by Mississauga and received by London on 02/02/2011.
Today I recieved a basic email saying..
"This e-mail is regarding your application for permanent residence.
Please be advised that you have provided insufficient documentation to prove that you and your sponsor have co-habited for a continuous 12 month period.
Please submit any information or documents which you consider might respond to this concern within sixty (60) days."
Problem is, we have no idea what else we can send them! We have been together for 2 years and lived together in england in a rented 1 bedroom house for 1 year, from Nov2009 to Nov2010. At the end of Nov2010 we both flew out to Canada together, and moved in with his parents. He is working here and I am on a visitors visa, which is due to expire on 25th May.
For proof of co-habitation we sent them our joint tenancy agreement in england, signed by both of us, and our landlord and dated for 12months exactly. We also sent them a joint council tax bill in both of our names for the periods we lived at the property and a letter from our landlord stating the 12month period we rented his 1bedroomed property together. We sent a letter from my mother verifying our relationship and the date I moved out of my childhood home and into the rented property with my partner too.
Unfortunately seeing as we were only renting we decided to keep important documents like driving liscences and bankaccounts registered at our parents addresses, purely because for ease as we didnt intend on living at that property for long and didnt want the hassle of changing everything when we did move into a bigger home.
But we did supply anything we had with our individual names on, sharing the same address and dated within the 12months we lived there such as water+electricity bills in my partners name, mobile phone contracts in my name, and storecard bills in my name. We paid our rent in cash, so there is no direct debts from our accounts, and we had seperate UK accounts anyway so were unable to send joint bank statements, which would have been useless regardless because as I said before, we didnt change our banking addresses from our parents homes.
When we arrived in Canada on 25th Nov we set up a joint bank account straight away, which is registered at the address we live at now together in Canada, so we sent copies of that showing our names and address. And because we are living with my partners parents at this address, we also sent a letter written by his father confirming that we live together there too.
I am at a loss as to what else I could supply them with. I thought the tenancy agreement and the joint council tax bills would be ok alone, but these along with everything else we sent obviously isnt enough. Does anybody have any advice?
I've been following this forum for some time throughout this process, flicking through has been so useful but now I need some specific help, and hope somebody can help me.
My partner and I are British Citizens, and he has PR status in Canada, we applied for common law sponsorship outland via london in December 2010, the first stage of our application was accepted by Mississauga and received by London on 02/02/2011.
Today I recieved a basic email saying..
"This e-mail is regarding your application for permanent residence.
Please be advised that you have provided insufficient documentation to prove that you and your sponsor have co-habited for a continuous 12 month period.
Please submit any information or documents which you consider might respond to this concern within sixty (60) days."
Problem is, we have no idea what else we can send them! We have been together for 2 years and lived together in england in a rented 1 bedroom house for 1 year, from Nov2009 to Nov2010. At the end of Nov2010 we both flew out to Canada together, and moved in with his parents. He is working here and I am on a visitors visa, which is due to expire on 25th May.
For proof of co-habitation we sent them our joint tenancy agreement in england, signed by both of us, and our landlord and dated for 12months exactly. We also sent them a joint council tax bill in both of our names for the periods we lived at the property and a letter from our landlord stating the 12month period we rented his 1bedroomed property together. We sent a letter from my mother verifying our relationship and the date I moved out of my childhood home and into the rented property with my partner too.
Unfortunately seeing as we were only renting we decided to keep important documents like driving liscences and bankaccounts registered at our parents addresses, purely because for ease as we didnt intend on living at that property for long and didnt want the hassle of changing everything when we did move into a bigger home.
But we did supply anything we had with our individual names on, sharing the same address and dated within the 12months we lived there such as water+electricity bills in my partners name, mobile phone contracts in my name, and storecard bills in my name. We paid our rent in cash, so there is no direct debts from our accounts, and we had seperate UK accounts anyway so were unable to send joint bank statements, which would have been useless regardless because as I said before, we didnt change our banking addresses from our parents homes.
When we arrived in Canada on 25th Nov we set up a joint bank account straight away, which is registered at the address we live at now together in Canada, so we sent copies of that showing our names and address. And because we are living with my partners parents at this address, we also sent a letter written by his father confirming that we live together there too.
I am at a loss as to what else I could supply them with. I thought the tenancy agreement and the joint council tax bills would be ok alone, but these along with everything else we sent obviously isnt enough. Does anybody have any advice?
