Hi Erina! I've been watching your thread about the email you received from the visa office. I am the applicant on Conjugal Partner category.
In the beginning we didn't even consider it could be so hard, but after I read some of the opinions I began to have doubts if it was a good idea (Common law was out of the question, I have visited Canada many times, but ever since they found out I was in a relationship with a Canadian resident I have faced only rejections for the visitor visa, 3 last year, 1 or 2 this year - I honestly lost track). Thank God he didn't have problems visiting or I would've gone crazy by now)
For now we can't get married (he needs an appostilled birth certificate if we want to get married anywhere in the world - except Canada, Asia, Africa and South America - he was a refugee so he can't go to his home country to get the appostille, his embassy told him they cannot do anything and I can't get to Canada, where we could get married without problems; for sure they can stick somewhere their ideas of us going to another continent to get married for the piece of paper without any friends or family). Recently, he has been asking friends and family to see if he can find anyone to help him get the paper he needs in order for us to get married in my country and meanwhile I am waiting for another invitation from him to arrive by mail, this time with the express intention of us getting married in Canada, with explanations about the problems we faced. If I get it, we will solve the problem. If not, well, there they have their evidence that we can't get married. I am hoping somewhere next he will have the birth certificate in order if someone will help him (we could also ask an agency to do it for him, but except the costs, the only agencies we found were in USA and since we can't physically see and talk to another human being, we can't trust sending them money and his details about date, place of birth, name etc)
To top that, I am also 2 months pregnant and I will probably have the babies in my country (I would've liked to do it in Canada, but since I can't get there, by the time I should receive the resident visa, I will be too far ahead with the pregnancy to be able to fly
)
We haven't heard anything from the visa office since my file was transferred in June. It has been stuck on medicals received on ecas since August. According to the new updates about the processing times, I should hear from the embassy around March :'(
Wish you all the best and good luck with your papers!
