Hi all,
Hoping someone may be able to shed some light as to whether I should be overly concerned about a particular aspect of my application.
I, the PA, am a UK citizen, my common-law partner, the sponsor, is a Canadian Citizen. We currently reside in the UK whilst she is on a temporary ancestry visa which expires May 2021. We are applying Outland.
We both have previous relationships which according to how they are defined would be common-law partnerships; as such, we are obviously declaring them to avoid any chance of providing inaccurate information even though none of them were as ‘marriage-like’ as our current relationship (no joint bank accounts, not listed on each others life insurance beneficiaries, no intentions to marry etc. )
I have two, between May 2010 and May 2015 and the other between July 2015 and December 2016.
Hers was between April 2014 and December 2016.
As you may be able to work out, our two most recent relationships broke up at the same time basically because we realised our feelings for each other and desire to be together.
We have lived together now since February 2017 so basically 3 years. We’ve spent like 2 nights apart in that time.
We have what I would consider very good documentary evidence of our relationship (named as beneficiaries on each other’s life insurance, joint health insurance policies, plenty of good quality photos together, multiple letters of support from friends and family including a notarised one from her parents, social media screenshots demonstrating the public nature of our relationship etc. ) as well as very good evidence of our being common law (a sworn statutory declaration of common-law partnership, joint tenancy agreements for the 3 years, joint council tax bills, joint bank account, a ton of correspondence addressed individually but to the same address).
I know no one can say for certain, but in anyone’s experience are we likely to face much resistance due to our previous relationships? Advice and opinions on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Hoping someone may be able to shed some light as to whether I should be overly concerned about a particular aspect of my application.
I, the PA, am a UK citizen, my common-law partner, the sponsor, is a Canadian Citizen. We currently reside in the UK whilst she is on a temporary ancestry visa which expires May 2021. We are applying Outland.
We both have previous relationships which according to how they are defined would be common-law partnerships; as such, we are obviously declaring them to avoid any chance of providing inaccurate information even though none of them were as ‘marriage-like’ as our current relationship (no joint bank accounts, not listed on each others life insurance beneficiaries, no intentions to marry etc. )
I have two, between May 2010 and May 2015 and the other between July 2015 and December 2016.
Hers was between April 2014 and December 2016.
As you may be able to work out, our two most recent relationships broke up at the same time basically because we realised our feelings for each other and desire to be together.
We have lived together now since February 2017 so basically 3 years. We’ve spent like 2 nights apart in that time.
We have what I would consider very good documentary evidence of our relationship (named as beneficiaries on each other’s life insurance, joint health insurance policies, plenty of good quality photos together, multiple letters of support from friends and family including a notarised one from her parents, social media screenshots demonstrating the public nature of our relationship etc. ) as well as very good evidence of our being common law (a sworn statutory declaration of common-law partnership, joint tenancy agreements for the 3 years, joint council tax bills, joint bank account, a ton of correspondence addressed individually but to the same address).
I know no one can say for certain, but in anyone’s experience are we likely to face much resistance due to our previous relationships? Advice and opinions on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
