Format of Evidence of Relationship

[carsonb]

Hi All-

Okay...so I've seen a few random posts about this, but I can't seem to figure out what will work best for us. I'm an american, and my husband is Canadian. I'm still waiting on my FBI records that were sent in back in September and that's the last form we need. I'm gathering all our evidence of our relationship now, but I don't know how to best format it. Should they be actual photographs printed from a photo studio with writing on the back? I was going to put 3-4 pictures on a page and type of who/date/where for the photos, but now i'm concerned printing them on paper like that won't be good enough. idk. This is really stressing me out...among the fact I'm applying inland and I'm pretty sure my hopes of applying for an OWP will be dashed by the time we are actually able to submit the application.

Thanks

 

[Owl29]

Hi All-

Okay...so I've seen a few random posts about this, but I can't seem to figure out what will work best for us. I'm an american, and my husband is Canadian. I'm still waiting on my FBI records that were sent in back in September and that's the last form we need. I'm gathering all our evidence of our relationship now, but I don't know how to best format it. Should they be actual photographs printed from a photo studio with writing on the back? I was going to put 3-4 pictures on a page and type of who/date/where for the photos, but now i'm concerned printing them on paper like that won't be good enough. idk. This is really stressing me out...among the fact I'm applying inland and I'm pretty sure my hopes of applying for an OWP will be dashed by the time we are actually able to submit the application.

Thanks

Don't know whats the best way,but I can tell you what we did:

We used PowerPoint: we will put picture and write besides: date, place, who is in the picture and occasion picture was taken for. We printed with color printer. I found PowerPoint most easy to work with as then all pictures are quite uniformed... I found one picture and description per page is the best and most clear way. I also put page numbers and header and footer, so if some pages are lost they will always see whose application there was and for what
Hope that helps

 

[krishnalynn]

Hey, I did three pics a page and wrote with pen a quick caption of who was in it and where we were/what we were doing.

May I ask why you're applying inland? You probably know outland is way faster for americans.

 

[carsonb]

Hey, I did three pics a page and wrote with pen a quick caption of who was in it and where we were/what we were doing.

May I ask why you're applying inland? You probably know outland is way faster for americans.

I was living in NYC and I couldn't keep up the lifestyle anymore. Things were falling apart quickly there. So I moved here. I don't have a US address and when I sent my FBI request off, I marked 'inland' (same with my medical)...so we really only have one option at this point. we were hoping to apply for the OWP as well...but the FBI has taken way too long to get to my request so I'm assuming that won't work.

 

[floomy]

I printed all photos from print shop and wrote short info back of each pic : date, who's is in , occasion (family support, trip etc)
and divided them by year then put all photos of each year in 3 different clear envelope : 2012, 2013, 2014.




hope it helps.

 

[Gemini020]

I'm not sure it's the best way, we still have to send in the application, but we made one document (about 55 pages) with first two pages with a short written summary of our relationship followed by pictures, plane tickets, emails etc in chronological order to support that story. We did everything in Word and had multiple (depending on how many people were in the picture) pictures with captions on one page. I personally liked doing it this way as I think the combination of plane tickets, emails and pictures really support an event and they can flip through it and not have to cross reference tickets and pictures.
We also included a bit on our plans.

 

[carsonb]

I'm not sure it's the best way, we still have to send in the application, but we made one document (about 55 pages) with first two pages with a short written summary of our relationship followed by pictures, plane tickets, emails etc in chronological order to support that story. We did everything in Word and had multiple (depending on how many people were in the picture) pictures with captions on one page. I personally liked doing it this way as I think the combination of plane tickets, emails and pictures really support an event and they can flip through it and not have to cross reference tickets and pictures.
We also included a bit on our plans.

that's what we were going to do as well. just to make it easy for them...put everything chronologically. the thing is, we have 100s of pictures (especially from the wedding) and I feel like it will be overload to include them all...no?

 

[rugrat907]

that's what we were going to do as well. just to make it easy for them...put everything chronologically. the thing is, we have 100s of pictures (especially from the wedding) and I feel like it will be overload to include them all...no?

Yes, it will be overload. Pick 10-20 of the best ones and include somee that also show other family members or friends, if available. They don't need to see every detail of the wedding.

 

[TracyCa64]

Hi All-

Okay...so I've seen a few random posts about this, but I can't seem to figure out what will work best for us. I'm an american, and my husband is Canadian. I'm still waiting on my FBI records that were sent in back in September and that's the last form we need. I'm gathering all our evidence of our relationship now, but I don't know how to best format it. Should they be actual photographs printed from a photo studio with writing on the back? I was going to put 3-4 pictures on a page and type of who/date/where for the photos, but now i'm concerned printing them on paper like that won't be good enough. idk. This is really stressing me out...among the fact I'm applying inland and I'm pretty sure my hopes of applying for an OWP will be dashed by the time we are actually able to submit the application.

Thanks

I had photos printed off at a photo place and wrote the place & date on the back. For me it was easier to have them printed at a photo place instead of printing at home. I wanted them in color and figured ink would cost more. I did screen shots off the computer of different Facebook pages and then had those printed off as well. It was nice because it showed comments from friends on the Facebook posts, which was nice to show that my friends knew about our relationship through the years. We had 5 years worth of stuff. I sent a little from each year. I also photocopied our cards that we mailed to each other, envelopes too so they could see the dates. We had more computer related documentation than photos because we only had photos from our visits but we had daily documentation via phone & computer. I sent in copies of phone records, a few months for each year. I also screen shot photos of our emails, like a page showing a list of incoming/outgoing emails to each other. Not the complete email, but like the "sent" or "old mail" list. It was great because it showed the dates and email subject line. I did send a few copies of Facebook messenger messages too. I sent in copies of all of our boarding passes of our visits. Sorry if I went overboard on this post. Lol I know you were mainly asking about the photos. I put my stuff in stacks and put a small sticky with a title of what the stack was. Each stack was in date order.

I am American and my partner is Canadian. The Outland process is soo much faster for people from the US. I guess if you can work with the Inland process it will make the time go faster, but expect a really long wait and you can't leave Canada during the process. Are you sure you can't change your mind and do the Outland process? You know that you can be in Canada and still do the Outland? I have been in Canada for 21 months. You can't work, but it is so much faster.

Smiles!!

 

[carsonb]

I had photos printed off at a photo place and wrote the place & date on the back. For me it was easier to have them printed at a photo place instead of printing at home. I wanted them in color and figured ink would cost more. I did screen shots off the computer of different Facebook pages and then had those printed off as well. It was nice because it showed comments from friends on the Facebook posts, which was nice to show that my friends knew about our relationship through the years. We had 5 years worth of stuff. I sent a little from each year. I also photocopied our cards that we mailed to each other, envelopes too so they could see the dates. We had more computer related documentation than photos because we only had photos from our visits but we had daily documentation via phone & computer. I sent in copies of phone records, a few months for each year. I also screen shot photos of our emails, like a page showing a list of incoming/outgoing emails to each other. Not the complete email, but like the "sent" or "old mail" list. It was great because it showed the dates and email subject line. I did send a few copies of Facebook messenger messages too. I sent in copies of all of our boarding passes of our visits. Sorry if I went overboard on this post. Lol I know you were mainly asking about the photos. I put my stuff in stacks and put a small sticky with a title of what the stack was. Each stack was in date order.

I am American and my partner is Canadian. The Outland process is soo much faster for people from the US. I guess if you can work with the Inland process it will make the time go faster, but expect a really long wait and you can't leave Canada during the process. Are you sure you can't change your mind and do the Outland process? You know that you can be in Canada and still do the Outland? I have been in Canada for 21 months. You can't work, but it is so much faster.

Smiles!!

I get that it's faster...I guess I'm just confused how I would go about submitting an application for Outbound while I'm living in Toronto? Do I just put my mom's address for where I live even though I don't live there? I'm also unemployed, we share everything, and I'm involved in the community...Is it lying and will we get in major shit for it?

 

[TracyCa64]

I get that it's faster...I guess I'm just confused how I would go about submitting an application for Outbound while I'm living in Toronto? Do I just put my mom's address for where I live even though I don't live there? I'm also unemployed, we share everything, and I'm involved in the community...Is it lying and will we get in major *censored word* for it?

No, you would put the address in Toronto as your residential address as long as you have a legal status as a Visitor in Canada. CIC knows that couples want to be together during the process. When your Visitor status is close to expiring, you would apply for an extension and state the reason as wanting to be in Canada while PR is processing.

CIC & CBSA view "living" in Canada differently. To CBSA you need to say you are "visiting", but when you apply for PR, it's okay to put your Canada address. Infact on the application it will ask if you and your husband/partner have lived together.

You can be in Canada and apply Outland. As an American your application will be eventually be transferred to the Ottawa VO for processing.

It's okay that you are unemployed, if you are living in Canada you can't work anyway. You would state that your husband is financially responsible for you while you are in Canada.

Look around on the forum and see how everyone is doing it. There are a lot of Americans who are in Canada and applied Outland.

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