hi everyone,
i am a canadian citizen that will be applying for a common-law sponsorship for my girlfriend who is argentinian. i will explain our situation a little bit and hopefully there are some people out there that have some advice for us.
we met last july in argentina [while i was there for work]. spent a week together. then i returned to canada because 1) i had my return ticket already booked before i met her and 2) because i am a graduate student and had to start+complete my thesis starting in september of 2011. once i was in canada, we still kept in contact, and realized that this was something special and that unknown feelings had been discovered, so i decided to take a year off from school and go back to argentina.
we lived together for the whole time that i was there and in july 2012 we came to canada together, for her to meet my family and friends, and to see my home and all. but she is in university as well, so she had to leave in mid-august. and i stayed here because i have to start my studies in september. the only reason that we're not together right now is because of school basically. also in terms of supporting documents we have plenty of photos, emails, chats, blogs, witnesses and everything to show that it's a genuine relationship.
here are my questions + dilemmas:
1) technically if you consider from the time that i went back to argentina last year [sept 15 2011] until her departure back to argentina this year [aug 20th 2012], we're a month short of the 12 months of living together. does this disqualify a common-law application completely or are there exceptions? because as i said the reasons for not living together right now are strictly because of our studies.
2) if the answer to question 1 is yes that it would disquality a common-law application, could the week that we 'lived/spent' together last july when we met in argentina, be considered the starting date of our common-law relationship? but then i had to return to canada and stayed for 2 months apart from eachother.
3) in terms of proving that we lived together, we don't have the rent/lease application in both our names because we were renting an apartment from her sister. but i do have the internet bill that was under my name, but she didn't have any bills that were sent to that address. and the last 2 months we lived in another house [rental] with two other friends... so besides those internet bills, there are no other mails that we had going to the same address in both our names. although we have photos and all. would this be a problem?! we have a shared credit card account but that has my canadian address on it which i just received.
4) she wants to come here and continue her studies in toronto in 2013. do you think everything will go through before then if we apply in september?
5) since i'm a student, my income isn't much, i'm a fulltime graduate student. would this affect the 'sponsorship' application? she has property and more assets than i do, i feel like she should be sponsoring me! ;D and if it would affect it, would i need to get a co-sponsor?!
6) we want to know if the common-law sponsorship could work with our situation. we don't want to be apart for too long, she's planning on coming back in december after her semester ends in argentina. and we're hoping that by then we would have an answer and she could stay. [she also does have a visa until the end of 2013].
that's all the questions for now i suppose. i apologize for the lengthy post, i want to be as clear as possible to try to get the best advice possible. we are trying to get everything prepared to send off in the next few weeks. but maybe marriage is something to consider for us as well!
thank you in advance for all your help.
cheers.
:-X
i am a canadian citizen that will be applying for a common-law sponsorship for my girlfriend who is argentinian. i will explain our situation a little bit and hopefully there are some people out there that have some advice for us.
we met last july in argentina [while i was there for work]. spent a week together. then i returned to canada because 1) i had my return ticket already booked before i met her and 2) because i am a graduate student and had to start+complete my thesis starting in september of 2011. once i was in canada, we still kept in contact, and realized that this was something special and that unknown feelings had been discovered, so i decided to take a year off from school and go back to argentina.
we lived together for the whole time that i was there and in july 2012 we came to canada together, for her to meet my family and friends, and to see my home and all. but she is in university as well, so she had to leave in mid-august. and i stayed here because i have to start my studies in september. the only reason that we're not together right now is because of school basically. also in terms of supporting documents we have plenty of photos, emails, chats, blogs, witnesses and everything to show that it's a genuine relationship.
here are my questions + dilemmas:
1) technically if you consider from the time that i went back to argentina last year [sept 15 2011] until her departure back to argentina this year [aug 20th 2012], we're a month short of the 12 months of living together. does this disqualify a common-law application completely or are there exceptions? because as i said the reasons for not living together right now are strictly because of our studies.
2) if the answer to question 1 is yes that it would disquality a common-law application, could the week that we 'lived/spent' together last july when we met in argentina, be considered the starting date of our common-law relationship? but then i had to return to canada and stayed for 2 months apart from eachother.
3) in terms of proving that we lived together, we don't have the rent/lease application in both our names because we were renting an apartment from her sister. but i do have the internet bill that was under my name, but she didn't have any bills that were sent to that address. and the last 2 months we lived in another house [rental] with two other friends... so besides those internet bills, there are no other mails that we had going to the same address in both our names. although we have photos and all. would this be a problem?! we have a shared credit card account but that has my canadian address on it which i just received.
4) she wants to come here and continue her studies in toronto in 2013. do you think everything will go through before then if we apply in september?
5) since i'm a student, my income isn't much, i'm a fulltime graduate student. would this affect the 'sponsorship' application? she has property and more assets than i do, i feel like she should be sponsoring me! ;D and if it would affect it, would i need to get a co-sponsor?!
6) we want to know if the common-law sponsorship could work with our situation. we don't want to be apart for too long, she's planning on coming back in december after her semester ends in argentina. and we're hoping that by then we would have an answer and she could stay. [she also does have a visa until the end of 2013].
that's all the questions for now i suppose. i apologize for the lengthy post, i want to be as clear as possible to try to get the best advice possible. we are trying to get everything prepared to send off in the next few weeks. but maybe marriage is something to consider for us as well!
thank you in advance for all your help.
cheers.
:-X
