Hope I am posting this in the right forum.
I'm in a sort of catch 22 situation. I am currently in Canada on a Work and Holiday visa, which expires on August 14. I moved in with my boyfriend (Canadian citizen) on the same day, so we have been living together for almost 10 months now.
I will apply for a PR through sponsorship, but I can't apply for that until we have lived together for a minimum of 12 months (then becoming common-law), so I have to apply for an extension of my stay instead:
(https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/application-change-conditions-extend-stay-visitor.html)
When I get approved (hopefully) to stay, I can apply for a PR. So far, so good, I think.
But when I'm looking at the application form for an extension, a few things are making me confused:
"Your current marital status"
Here I have to declare if I am single or in a common-law relationship, and here is the catch 22. By law, we are not common-law for another two months, but the whole reason why I want to extend my stay is to apply for a PR through sponsorship (common-law), so I have to mention my partner in this application either way.
Do I choose the option single? Since my reason for an extension is to later on apply for a PR through my boyfriend, is it still correct to choose the option single, and therefor leave out the info on my boyfriend (name, if he's a canadian citizen or not, etc).
And, do we not fill out the Statutory Declaration of Common-law Union (IMM 5409) because of this?
My worry is that I will not get approved, simply because I'm not in a common-law relationship yet. Is there any room to explain my situation outside this form? Where I can explain more in detail what the purpose of my extension is?
I'm in a sort of catch 22 situation. I am currently in Canada on a Work and Holiday visa, which expires on August 14. I moved in with my boyfriend (Canadian citizen) on the same day, so we have been living together for almost 10 months now.
I will apply for a PR through sponsorship, but I can't apply for that until we have lived together for a minimum of 12 months (then becoming common-law), so I have to apply for an extension of my stay instead:
(https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/application-change-conditions-extend-stay-visitor.html)
When I get approved (hopefully) to stay, I can apply for a PR. So far, so good, I think.
But when I'm looking at the application form for an extension, a few things are making me confused:
"Your current marital status"
Here I have to declare if I am single or in a common-law relationship, and here is the catch 22. By law, we are not common-law for another two months, but the whole reason why I want to extend my stay is to apply for a PR through sponsorship (common-law), so I have to mention my partner in this application either way.
Do I choose the option single? Since my reason for an extension is to later on apply for a PR through my boyfriend, is it still correct to choose the option single, and therefor leave out the info on my boyfriend (name, if he's a canadian citizen or not, etc).
And, do we not fill out the Statutory Declaration of Common-law Union (IMM 5409) because of this?
My worry is that I will not get approved, simply because I'm not in a common-law relationship yet. Is there any room to explain my situation outside this form? Where I can explain more in detail what the purpose of my extension is?
