Best way to organise it all?

[Ssarah183]

I have everything ready now for my common law spouse partnership application. We are filing from outside of Canada and I am from the UK

Well now I have all of the paperwork required spread out on the living room floor and am at a loss on how to compile it. Should I number the pages and refer to them that way? Should I paperclip them into groups with header pages to explain what they are? How did you compile yours??

Any help please?

 

[ukmike]

Hi,

I'm sure you will hear many different ways people have presented their information but we organised it in the order shown on the document checklist. We then placed all the evidence into unsealed enveloped for the major events we had referenced in our paperwork, for example trips, flights, etc.

Hope that helps and good luck!

Mike

 

[Suin]

Yes, we did exactly the same - arranged everything according to checklist. We put paperwork related to sponsorship into one folder, of the sponsored person into another, and evidence into the 3rd one (we had a big pile of it). Then we put labels on each of the folders and sent them all in one package.
have a good luck!

 

[bfraken]

I did the same thing, used 3 envelopes instead of folders and labeled everything in sight. Made it idiot proof

 

[mitamata]

We avoided folders or multiple envelopes. I only used one folder - that contained all the supporting evidence (chat logs, emails, phone bills, photos, ...). We arranged the forms as they are listed on the checklist and just put them on top of that folder, stuck everything in another big folder and sent it off.
We had printed the forms at home, so we used paperclips to keep the individual pages for various forms from getting lost. One paperclip for every form that had more than 1 page.
I put post-it notes on various documents that weren't included in the one folder - like police certificate and birth certificate and so on. So it was clearly visible what was what. Bright orange and pink post-it notes, so they got people's attention

It really doesn't matter how you arrange things. Just try to make it as organized as you can and I'm sure it'll be fine They're not evaluating your organizational skills.

One note: if you're writing anything on a separate sheet of paper (some forms say to use one if space is insufficient), make sure you write the name of the form and the question number before your answer. And people also suggest writing your name and date of birth on every separate sheet, so they don't misplace it. I avoided the separate sheets by writing on the back of the pages and that was apparently fine too, we had no issues.

 

[Ssarah183]

Thanks all for the tips! We ended up putting it in the order they asked for it and making sure it was all labeled clearly. I did have 3 extra sheets of paper but i had put my name, d.o.b and the form number on each one so hopefully it should be clear.

Fingers crossed now