Hi guys, I received ITA under CEC and had a few questions about submitting my documents...My common law partner is Canadian, so he would be "unaccompanied" in my application. Now my checklist is asking me to provide proof of relationships and I need some help on the supporting documents...
1. Statutory Declaration of Common-law Union (IMM5409E) We signed this form and submitted to IRCC in Sept 2016 when I changed my status from PGWP to visitor record. By that time the company I worked for provided life insurance which I named my CLP as my beneficiary...so I checked "I have life insurance names my partner as beneficiary" in this form. Then I resigned coz my PGWP expired and of course life insurance terminated...So question is, is this declaration form still valid to submit? (coz I can't provide proof of the insurance beneficiary anymore.)
2. If not, we are about to sign a new declaration. Should I include other supporting documents (joint account/bills/...) which I didn't have? I have only (1) proof of same address for over 1.5 years, (2) joint cell phone bills under one company name (we used business plan) but he paid the bills. He bought this apt few years ago before we met and he keeps paying all the utilities...so we don't have anything in our both names. Shall we open a joint bank account as further proof of our relationship? Or what other things are helpful to submit?
3. In my application, in the section of address history, I put I started moving into his apt (current address) from Apr 10, 2015. But when we signed the first declaration in Sept 2016, I put start living together date as May 1, 2016, because I didn't changed my address on my bills until late April, so I only have proof of this address in my May bills. So I put May 1 as start living date. So when we are going to sign the NEW declaration, should I put May 1 as start living date again to keep consistency as IRCC may keep a copy of my old version? Or should I put Apr 10 to align with my address history section? This sounds stupid...but please offer some advices...
Thank you so much everyone!
1. Statutory Declaration of Common-law Union (IMM5409E) We signed this form and submitted to IRCC in Sept 2016 when I changed my status from PGWP to visitor record. By that time the company I worked for provided life insurance which I named my CLP as my beneficiary...so I checked "I have life insurance names my partner as beneficiary" in this form. Then I resigned coz my PGWP expired and of course life insurance terminated...So question is, is this declaration form still valid to submit? (coz I can't provide proof of the insurance beneficiary anymore.)
2. If not, we are about to sign a new declaration. Should I include other supporting documents (joint account/bills/...) which I didn't have? I have only (1) proof of same address for over 1.5 years, (2) joint cell phone bills under one company name (we used business plan) but he paid the bills. He bought this apt few years ago before we met and he keeps paying all the utilities...so we don't have anything in our both names. Shall we open a joint bank account as further proof of our relationship? Or what other things are helpful to submit?
3. In my application, in the section of address history, I put I started moving into his apt (current address) from Apr 10, 2015. But when we signed the first declaration in Sept 2016, I put start living together date as May 1, 2016, because I didn't changed my address on my bills until late April, so I only have proof of this address in my May bills. So I put May 1 as start living date. So when we are going to sign the NEW declaration, should I put May 1 as start living date again to keep consistency as IRCC may keep a copy of my old version? Or should I put Apr 10 to align with my address history section? This sounds stupid...but please offer some advices...
Thank you so much everyone!