I need help filling out this form IMM0008 Personal Details Q. 14 in behalf of my partner who is the principal applicant. We both entered our relationship with full knowledge of our background especially our past relationships. I was married but separated that time, and he had 2 failed relationships, the first one he was legally married, then the next can be regarded as a common-law like relationship since they lived together for more than a year. He had 3 children from his ex-wife and 2 from the last relationship. I came into picture after his relationship with the latter fell apart. The kids from the ex-wife are now of legal age to decide for their own, thus 1 of them will be included in our application, however the other minor children will both be non-accompanying as we know for a fact that their mother will not let them.
For my question, As i start to fill out the forms, i got confused with the personal details section specifically the part asking if he had previously been married or in a common-law relationship. (BTW, my partner's marriage is now annulled and i am also divorced here in Canada. ).
How do I answer this part? Do i have to provide a separate sheet to detail his past relationships? or i just need to fill out the part where he was married before and omit the last relationship?
IRCC will find out anyway that the 3 kids in the application have different mothers once we include all their birth certificates.
3. For the question, when did our conjugal relationship start, do i write the date when we enter the relationship bf/gf which was in 2007? I am not able to declare him as common-law when i applied for PR and Citizenship as we didn't live together for a year. I didn't want to have this issue raise a red flag for IRCC when i became a PR and citizen.
Please help! thank you!