it’s normal to change the circumstances because the PR processing time might take years but i think get married in these 30 days only to respond to PFL seems to be too rushed and doesn’t look good
it was a very bad choice of him to apply as common law so the chance is quite slim either ways
I disagree on several points:
-At the time they send a PFL, they are ready and prepared to refuse the application on serious grounds - that's why it is called a procedural fairness letter, they are giving him a chance to respond. At this stage we are no longer in the 'years of PR processing time.'
-Nothing unusual about a couple living together with a child getting married in civil ceremony to deal with civil issues (recognition of their relationship by the government).
-As I noted, it is in the operational guidelines etc that IRCC officers MUST consider new information like change of marital status - conjugal to married, common law / etc. (To put simply if the married status does change the evaluation - eg as above where they were in one interpretation not common law at all in 2024, then married potentially reverses that deficiency.
-Regardless of whether it 'doesn't look good', they are currently facing a rather catastrophic development - one spouse being banned from sponsorship - and anything that has a chance of helping avoid that should be considered.
Will it work? is it too clever by half? Maybe. THAT'S WHY THEY NEED A LAWYER.
