Help with Proof of relationship to Sponsor.

[livingabroad]

Hello. I am currently applying for PR for my wife. We are both living abroad together and having two issues with some supporting documents. First

Are you and your Sponsor currently living together. Yes. It asked to provide 2 of the 3 options.
* Joint ownership or residential agreement listing both of us.
*Proof of joint utilities accounts
*Important documents showing the same address.

The issues we are having 1. our rental contract from 3 years ago only has my wife's name. 2. utilities accounts are all under the landlords company name. 3. Important documents showing the same address. This is where we are having the most trouble. I have documents supporting this but my wife's documents are all for here old apartment she rented. We tried to change the address for some of these documents but our current apartment is owned by our landlords company, and our landlord lives in Australia ( we live in China). Without the landlords name on the property they won't notarize any documents for us... big headache.

Some things we can submit are package delivery receipts with our address and my wife's name. A envelope from CIC that had her previous TRV application with her name and our shared address on it, and a work contract showing our shared address. Could submit our rental agreement showing my wife's name and our address on it but we can't get it notarized and translated because our landlords name isn't on the ownership papers for this apartment...Could also supply letters from family/friends and our neighbour stating we have lived together at this place for 3+ years together. Would this be sufficient? Anyone have similar issues?


This same problem is also causing issues further down on the checklist for supporting documents when needing to provide documents from 3 of the following.

* joint ownership or rental agreements
*proof of joint utilities
*Important documents, such as government issued id
*important documents showing you are recognized as each others spouse
*Documents showing financial support
*other proof relationship is recognized by friends family

We have provided plane/bus ticket receipts showing financial support, emails from friends and family, our marriage certificates, but again having trouble with rental contract, utilities, and documents showing the same address besides the ones I stated above that we have ( envelope with her name/address on it), work contract with our address, and package delivery receipts.

We are finished our application except for these supporting documents issues. If anyone has some suggestions or experience with what you did it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

livingabroad

 

[Aquakitty]

There's no way you can be added to the lease?

You can provide things like government ID showing you both with the same address, go get a joint bank account, add your name or vise-versa to one of your credit cards, and so on.

I don't quite get why they won't notarize a company document for you. Doesn't make sense. That means they can never notarize anything from a company? I'd look in to that more. You could just get him to fill out a different form with his name on it only. Doesn't have to be the actual agreement, just a letter stating you both live there is much better than nothing.

For whatever you can't cover, write an explanation as to why you can't get the documents you mentioned, and provide some proof of what you've tried.

 

[livingabroad]

We have a saying here"TIC" This is China. Sometimes there's no good explanation. Just no why. Anyway, couple phone calls with the landlord and a trip to the police station and we got it sorted out .Thanks for your reply.