Common Law - NO LEASE DOCUMENT

[kikiva]

hello,

my partner and I are planning on applying for express entry as common law. we have been staying together for the past year + however during the last year she was never on the lease. Would this be a problem if this piece of evidence is not produced? we are able to provide tons of other documents to prove our relationship to be genuine, including letters from family/friends, stat deceleration. Only as of Jan this year (2017) are we on the lease together. we will be filling our taxes together this year. please advice

 

[ozlis]

hello,

my partner and I are planning on applying for express entry as common law. we have been staying together for the past year + however during the last year she was never on the lease. Would this be a problem if this piece of evidence is not produced? we are able to provide tons of other documents to prove our relationship to be genuine, including letters from family/friends, stat deceleration. Only as of Jan this year (2017) are we on the lease together. we will be filling our taxes together this year. please advice

Do you have anything else that links her to that location? Utilities etc? Did she update her phone bill etc to be sent to that address?

 

[jes_ON]

we will be filling our taxes together this year. please advice

Submit the Change of Marital Status form to the CRA, keep a copy for your records.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/rc65/README.html

This is one the key documents that IRCC accepts as proof of common-law status.

 

[jes_ON]

however during the last year she was never on the lease. Only as of Jan this year (2017) are we on the lease together.

Do you have any proof of the date she changed her address (either with Canada Post, Service Ontario documents, etc?

Joint bank account? Naming each other as beneficiaries on insurance? There are lots of other documents, the lease is not a mandatory document.

 

[kikiva]

Do you have anything else that links her to that location? Utilities etc? Did she update her phone bill etc to be sent to that address?

we really do not from last year 2016, she was never on the utilities bill, she does not have a post paid phone connection, pays monthly so no bills on that part. she probably got a few deliveries at my place but I mostly ordered everything. she was in school so had no benefits.

 

[kikiva]

No we do not, the only documents we can procure are from friends/family, photos, videos, plane tickets from our vacations together, work relationship (we worked at the same place, employees can attest to it). we reached out to the landlord however they are not willing to help out with a letter stating she was living there as her name was not on the lease (we did not include it because her credit score was bad, and we were living in high end condo buildings).

 

[ozlis]

Did she update any of her addresses?

Drivers licence, banking, address with her workplace (would appear on her payslips), school?

 

[kikiva]

she does not have a drivers license, she just updated her banking address, not from 1 year before unfortunately, she was in school so no work.

 

[jes_ON]

she was in school so had no benefits.

Then surely her school records show her address.

BTW none of this matters that much if you have the CRA document.

 

[kryt0n]

Send/fax in the RC65 form, even retroactively.