I just received my application back and I am extremely confused by this letter. Either we have been getting bad advice from this forum consistently for the past 6 months or the officer didn't read the application.
It says -
"It appears the person you are sponsoring is currently visiting in Canada from Jan 25th, 2011 and will need to leave by Jul 25th 2011. In order to meet the requirement for common law, you must show proof that you have resided together for a minimum of 12 months (current). Previous to January, it appears the person you are sponsoring was residing in Ireland. You do not qualify as common law. However, you could list him and yourself as conjugal partners."
Big wtf to that, to give a general idea of our case. Met my gf, she moved to Ireland from Canada in february 2010 where we lived together (joint leases, bank accounts, trips, photos, letters, affidavits, irish working visa for her) until both of us returned back here to live with my gfs mother. We have been consistently advised that this still qualified as part of the living together section...seen as we are uhhhh living together, still sharing finances, have letters of support etc. I am at a complete loss. Really dont understand or know how to proceed. And the call centre number doesnt work for me.
EDIT: Just got off the phone with the call centre, she agrees with me and the forum that the fact the we were living together from Feb 2010- Jan 2011 in ireland and then moved back to Canada together where we have been living since means that yes we should qualify. She asked for me to have my gf call back when she is not at work so she can access more of the file. This really sucks, it's beginning to seem that the officer just didn't read what we sent, all they had to look at was the index and they would have seen the page number fo everything that shows we were living together in Ireland.
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