cohabitating before marriage

[myx45]

My partner and i had been co - habitated for 2 years before getting married.does cohabitation the same thing as common law?we don't have proof of any joint document except our rental lease.Now I am sponsoring her as my spouse(outland)..does our cohabitation before marriage affect my sponsorship to her and her application for permanent residence will be refuse?because we didn't declare common law since we lived together for 2 years.

 

[rjessome]

My partner and i had been co - habitated for 2 years before getting married.does cohabitation the same thing as common law?we don't have proof of any joint document except our rental lease.Now I am sponsoring her as my spouse(outland)..does our cohabitation before marriage affect my sponsorship to her and her application for permanent residence will be refuse?because we didn't declare common law since we lived together for 2 years.

Living common-law before marriage will not hurt your application or cause refusal. If anything, it is positive towards proving genuiness of the relationship.

 

[myx45]

what if we didn't declare common law during those years that we lived together?

 

[Baloo]

what if we didn't declare common law during those years that we lived together?

No problem.

 

[rjessome]

what if we didn't declare common law during those years that we lived together?

Declared to who? As long as you declare it to CIC and can prove it, I'm with Baloo. No problem.

 

[kelKel]

I think they're referring to the tax people

 

[Baloo]

I think they're referring to the tax people

Maybe new thread title -

COMING SOON
TO AN ARENA NEAR YOU
CIC vs CRA
SMACK DOWN
BATTLE OF THE MEANIES​

 

[Kaycee1]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[Love_Young]

Baloo I want that on a t-shirt. I busted out laughing.
I am with my hubby at his work in Subway and I think everyone thinks I am crazy. Sad part that might be true.

 

[angelbrat]

Never declared common law on my tax papers.....still don't....I am taxed as single.

My Inland PR application was finished in less than 8 months. Do not worry, your tax information has nothing to do with your immigration application.

 

[waitingintz]

Common-law is not an automatic status or one that you must declare just because you are living with someone. It is an optional status that people declare for tax or benefits (or immigration) puproses. Living together does not automatically make you common-law partners.

The only thing that is relevant to your application is that you demonstrate a a genuine relationship and living together for two years is a great way of showing that so you want to include proof that you lived together.

 

[missmini]

if u did declare urself common-law before marriage than u could use that as one more proof about ur status to the society, etc...but since now u r married it doesn't really matter

if u did not, then u will not show anything and i doubt they will actually check

on the other hand, if a couple is applying as common-law then it's good if they have these things..

by the way, who is CRA :-[

 

[toby]

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by the way, who is CRA :-[

To some CRA is the Tax Department. To others CRA is the Tax Gestapo. The truth is that they are both; it depends on how they have treated you.

 

[Baloo]

To some CRA is the Tax Department. To others CRA is the Tax Gestapo. The truth is that they are both; it depends on how they have treated you.

Vey true.
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/menu-eng.html

 

[mayasita]

It would matter if you were living together and you yourself were in the midst of a PR application (and didn't declare her on that)...