Thanks again for your response. Though it is disheartening, I was hoping there would be some wiggle room for our situation. Unfortunately there's no way we can survive in Canada without working for a year (would be pretty boring as well) plus add on another year for the application. So that's 2 years stuck in a place without working. I guess marriage really is the only option.
Conjugal Sponsorship dilemma
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Thanks again for your response. Though it is disheartening, I was hoping there would be some wiggle room for our situation. Unfortunately there's no way we can survive in Canada without working for a year (would be pretty boring as well) plus add on another year for the application. So that's 2 years stuck in a place without working. I guess marriage really is the only option.
There's no wiggle room. Spousal sponsorship is about spouses which is about marriage.
To go back to your statement that "common law and conjugal have nothing to do with marriage," they have everything to do with marriage. Common-law marriage is marriage. Conjugal relationships are where you cannot legally be married. They are alternatives to marriage but they substitute for marriage. Spousal sponsorship is for marriage. If you want to sponsor a spouse, you need to be a spouse.
If you don't to sponsor this person as a spouse, then you need to have them apply for a different way to get to Canada.
With all due respect to you and your girlfriend, remember that when you sponsor someone as your spouse or common law partner, you sign a 3 year undertaking meaning you are financially responsible for them. In my humble opinion, if you are not 100% sure that the person you are sponsoring is going to be the person you share your life with forever, what’s the point of sponsorsing them? Sponsorship isn’t something to take lightly and while you may not believe in marriage it should be something you consider if you want to be together with her forever in Canada. And if I may ask, if you want to be together forever what’s so terrible about marriage? Just food for thought for you. No harmful intentions here. Good luck with everything.
got pre arrival.... by the way... thank you for your very kind words....
buddy we are on a same boat..so dont lose hope !!! I got pre-arrival and eligibility passed!
You are not in the same boat. As per your previous posts, your partner is still legally married to someone else and therefore can't marry you.
Just have a question my application for conjugal is in process right now. Here’s my case:
I’m permanent resident in Canada single and the applicant in Philippines was married but separated from wife long time ago. We’ve been in conjugal since 2015 and he tried applying TRV but refused twice. We provide the refusal letter as proof for immigration barrier. PSA on certificate of Marriage and Advisory on Marriage so we can’t live as common law and we can’t get married since there’s no divorce in Philippines. With annulment that they’re asking he consulted the advice of lawyer and provided an opinion letter to CIC plus the fact that it would be costly to file annulment with him earning minimum wage. We did provide all the above docs including letter from friends and a joint property, call logs and emails, insurance with him as beneficiary, birth certificate of our son born in Canada, remittances. I can’t think of anything that we can provide them. I just got lost right now of what else they need.
I got a PFL and were asking to provide more evidence on conjugal relationship.
Here’s the part of the letter:
You have not sufficiently demonstrated that you meet the requirements of the conjugal partner immigration category. There is insufficient documentary evidence on file to show that you and your sponsor are unable to apply under the spousal or common-law categories because of exceptional circumstances. You and your sponsor have not established that there is an immigration barrier to cohabitation. You have not demonstrated that you have exhausted all avenues to have your marriage annulled. This raises concerns whether you and your sponsor have the significant degree of commitmentcharacteristic of a conjugal relationship.
Just wondering if you can help me if this is only a clarification or they just need an explanation of our case.
TIA
I’m permanent resident in Canada single and the applicant in Philippines was married but separated from wife long time ago. We’ve been in conjugal since 2015 and he tried applying TRV but refused twice. We provide the refusal letter as proof for immigration barrier. PSA on certificate of Marriage and Advisory on Marriage so we can’t live as common law and we can’t get married since there’s no divorce in Philippines. With annulment that they’re asking he consulted the advice of lawyer and provided an opinion letter to CIC plus the fact that it would be costly to file annulment with him earning minimum wage. We did provide all the above docs including letter from friends and a joint property, call logs and emails, insurance with him as beneficiary, birth certificate of our son born in Canada, remittances. I can’t think of anything that we can provide them. I just got lost right now of what else they need.
I got a PFL and were asking to provide more evidence on conjugal relationship.
Here’s the part of the letter:
You have not sufficiently demonstrated that you meet the requirements of the conjugal partner immigration category. There is insufficient documentary evidence on file to show that you and your sponsor are unable to apply under the spousal or common-law categories because of exceptional circumstances. You and your sponsor have not established that there is an immigration barrier to cohabitation. You have not demonstrated that you have exhausted all avenues to have your marriage annulled. This raises concerns whether you and your sponsor have the significant degree of commitmentcharacteristic of a conjugal relationship.
Just wondering if you can help me if this is only a clarification or they just need an explanation of our case.
TIA
Cite the law against adultery in the Philippines that prevents you from cohabiting in that country and the TRV refusals that prevent you from cohabiting in Canada.
As for the annulment, get another legal opinion regarding the cost and processing time and that it would keep separated for too long.
Thank you. I guess i will resend the opinion letter regarding the adultery and concubinage that we also got from the lawyer aside from the opinion letter regarding annulment. You’re right I’ll get another opinion letter from lawyer a more detailed that would show the processing and cost.
By the way do i need to send still all the rest of our requirements submitted like phone calls, remittances, emails, pics together, letter from friends or do i just have to stick with what they were requesting from PFL. TIA
Hi Jordan, Im wondering if you were able to push the application? If so? How does it go? We were on the same page. And we did applied for conjugal yet we got a PFL recently. As to their point there is no barrier for marriage. We are on the same as we dont wanna forcely do it for the sake of getting PR and as to the situation in Uae it is illegal to cohabit under wedlock.