COPR Condition 51 - wrongfully given?

[helloworld321]

Hello

I am a Canadian Citizen residing abroad and have successfully sponsored my common law partner for PR. We have been living together since late 2008 and applied for PR in early 2014. Therefore, at the time of applying we had been living together for 5 years.

My partner recently received a COPR but it has Condition 51 on it. Is this a mistake? Should we contact our VO? From what I understand, since we have been a common law couple for more than 2 years, this condition should not apply. We plan on living together after landing regardless, but I don't understand why my partner has been given conditional PR. I don't want this question to raise doubts about whether our relationship is genuine, it is purely a question about the application of the law.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[tink23]

You're correct. Condition51 shouldn't be on there, but I wouldn't worry about it anyway because once the 2 years passes it will just automatically change to a regular PR without even noticing.

 

[Rob_TO]

Did you provide actual proof of cohabitation going back to late 2008, or did you just concentrate on the most recent 1 year?

If you want to return the COPR and get one with Condition 51 removed, you can most likely do that but except up to several months in further delay to get your updated COPR. Else if you just land then as long as you continue to live together Condition 51 will not even be an issue.

 

[helloworld321]

Did you provide actual proof of cohabitation going back to late 2008, or did you just concentrate on the most recent 1 year?

If you want to return the COPR and get one with Condition 51 removed, you can most likely do that but except up to several months in further delay to get your updated COPR. Else if you just land then as long as you continue to live together Condition 51 will not even be an issue.

Yes, we did provided proof of cohabitation going back to 2008, which is why I don't understand why they included the condition on the COPR. I know that in our case it doesn't really matter, but a COPR without conditions seems better than a COPR with conditions.

If we were to return the COPR to the VO for amendment, would they re-examine our whole application or would it be as simple as printing a new COPR? When they sent us this COPR, they returned all the supporting documents (proof of cohabitation and of our relationship), so I hope they wouldn't want us to send everything back.

 

[lellen]

I wonder if this is something that could be amended during the landing interview? Like if you show the officer all the proof then and explain why the condition might be a mistake? It might be less complicated than returning the COPR to the VO...

 

[PMM]

Hi

I wonder if this is something that could be amended during the landing interview? Like if you show the officer all the proof then and explain why the condition might be a mistake? It might be less complicated than returning the COPR to the VO...

Nope, that won't happen. The BSO is there to do the "landing" only.