COPR issue seniors plz advise

[ScubaC]

Hi guys,

So, I noticed as I was getting all my documents together that on my COPR it says "single" as marital status. This is actually not true or is it?

I came to Canada as a refugee claimant and became convention refugee and then now PR hopefully soon Canadian citizen!

I saw on my application for permanent residency it stated as single and never married. That is why it is single on the COPR. This was done by the lawyer. I must have said something at that point and I think (it was so many years ago) he said there was no option there for divorced so it had to be put as single.

Now, when I went to see if I could amend all of this on the COPR it says

"Indicate your marital status as it should appear on your immigration document. Your record will only be amended if your marriage status was recorded incorrectly at the time of entry to Canada and you can provide proof. If your marital status has changed after you entered Canada, it will not be amended."

I can never prove I was indeed married and it was actually annulled but in my previous country they don't have a word for that and call everything divorce.

The only place it says "divorced" in any of my immigration documents is in my old PIF for my refugee claim.

So therefore after all of that....I can't get it changed anyway because I don't have proof. The big question now is in my citizenship application should I put "Never Married"? Since there is no single option.

Thanks everyone! This is a real conundrum! :-\

 

[ScubaC]

Plz help guys I am needing to send the application tomorrow :-\

 

[ScubaC]

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[eltorpe]

So therefore after all of that....I can't get it changed anyway because I don't have proof. The big question now is in my citizenship application should I put "Never Married"? Since there is no single option.

"An annulment is a legal procedure which cancels a marriage between a man and a woman. Annulling a marriage is as though it is completely erased - legally, it declares that the marriage never technically existed and was never valid." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annulment

So, if your marriage was annulled, you were never married.

 

[alphazip]

"An annulment is a legal procedure which cancels a marriage between a man and a woman. Annulling a marriage is as though it is completely erased - legally, it declares that the marriage never technically existed and was never valid." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annulment

So, if your marriage was annulled, you were never married.

Yet, the OP says there is no word in his native language for "annulment." If there is no word for it, how can it be an annulment? We would need to know more...was this a religious marriage and annulment (e.g., the Catholic church annuls marriages for various reasons, so that the parties to the marriage can get remarried in the church)? Also, he says he could never prove being married and divorced? Why is that...the country in question doesn't issue marriage certificates or annulment/divorce documents? However, I would think that the simplest thing to do is to put on your citizenship application whatever it says on your COPR. The only way this would ever be an issue is if your former wife were to file some kind of claim (request to immigrate to Canada?) based on her marriage to a Canadian.

 

[ScubaC]

Hi Guys,

Well the reasons why I can't get an documents in cos of the refugee status I can't contact my former country. The other thing, I called CIC (forgot family day wasn't a federal holiday!)

They said exactly that. I was never married since it was annulled. To keep it as never married.

PHEW.

This process is driving me crazy. I have all the papers lined up on the dining table as I am typing this. Time to get package ready

Thanks so much to the people who replied!