Arranged Marriage (Sort of) Outland Application - Any advice

[draxz1289]

Hello everyone,

Long story short, we have known each other since childhood and grew up together (we are family friends) until I moved to Canada to study my UG and have settled here. We have always kept in touch through the years (we dont have logs but have photos of us during our family tips etc when I had come down)

We grew fond of each other and our parent and us of course wanted us engaged and after a year and a half of engagement here we are married two weeks back.

We are going to position our file as: we have know each other since childhood showing pics - (we have lots of pics from our childhood all the way through since we our families were close we spent a lot of time) we then grew fond of each other and our parents got us engaged and we kept communicating daily (showing call logs, messages etc) for a year and a half and we got married.

My question is: I didnt visit back home for a year and a half after the engagement since I had just graduated and was looking for a job and when I had finally found one I couldnt take a holiday yet - would that reason suffice though we are showing call logs etc


What do you guys think

Any help is appreciated..

 

[CMLR]

I personally think your lack of seeing each other will not be too much of an issue. I don't know this for sure of course but my husband and I dated for 3 years and one of those years we did not get to see each other more than a couple times. and we didn't live far apart just cost too much on our budgets with ferry costs in order to see each other. We talked on Skype daily and and gave logs, not all of them, for all the years we dated. We have only a few photos other than our wedding, we did not think that we would need them and only had camera phones which were not so great sometimes.

Good Luck and happy newly married to you and your spouse

 

[draxz1289]

Thank you very much for the reply.

If I may ask how long did it take - if you have got the PR.

I am really hoping they would see our files as; we have been in contact since childhood and we are now married thus have a stronger bond

 

[keesio]

How often did you see (in-person) your fiancee when you first started "dating"? And did you have an engagement ceremony where both you and your fiancee were physically present?

The "known each other since childhood" thing can go both ways. It will prove to CIC that you know your fiancee well (positive) but really what they want proof of if that this is a legit relationship and not one of "help my family friend's son/daughter get to Canada". Overall it will help but it doesn't make it a given.

Also where are you and your fiancee originally from? I ask because if you are from a culture where arranged marriages is the norm, then that helps as CIC likes couples who follow the cultural norms of where they are from.

 

[draxz1289]

How often did you see (in-person) your fiancee when you first started "dating"? And did you have an engagement ceremony where both you and your fiancee were physically present?

The "known each other since childhood" thing can go both ways. It will prove to CIC that you know your fiancee well (positive) but really what they want proof of if that this is a legit relationship and not one of "help my family friend's son/daughter get to Canada". Overall it will help but it doesn't make it a given.

Also where are you and your fiancee originally from? I ask because if you are from a culture where arranged marriages is the norm, then that helps as CIC likes couples who follow the cultural norms of where they are from.

I used to visit India about once a year or so.
We are in India and most marriages are arranged.

We are showing our communications after the engagement and after the wedding along with our childhood photos.