Hi all, I’m currently in the process of filling out the requested documents.
I’m stuck on the question if my husband was previously married. The problem was that his marriage to me wasn’t his first. He was previously “married” to someone a few years back and he had a kateb kteb but he and her weren’t registered legally in the lebanese court nor were they living together nor had any type of wedding to consummate their relationship. They were technically still in the engaged process even though they had the kateb kteb. In the end things didn’t work out between them so they went to the sheikh and divorced.
And now here’s what went wrong, I put “no” for the question that he was previously married because I had some people tell me it wouldn’t be considered him being previously married if it wasn’t legally registered in the lebanese court. And it wouldn’t apply to Canadian law as well.
So the officer refusal for our relationship not being genuine stemmed from me misunderstanding the question about his previous relationship/marriage before me.
I told them during the appeal why we had put no and that we didn’t have any intention in hiding any necessary information needed for the application.
Would I have to this time say yes that he was previously married and add the necessary information for that or keep it as no?