Hi I need help please
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We asked you yesterday a number of times to share the email that IRCC sent you where they thought you were married.
Your COPR may say one thing, but we need to see the email from IRCC to provide you advice.
Your COPR may say one thing, but we need to see the email from IRCC to provide you advice.
No, it doesn't matter. On the COPR, there should be a field that says "MARITAL STATUS" and next to that it should say single or unmarried.
In another thread, he has said that he is having an issue where he received PR in 2012, got married in 2014, and in 2017 is trying to sponsor his wife. It's hard to tell because he won't share the email he got from IRCC, but IRCC appears to have asked for more documentation relating to his marriage. From what I read, they seem to think that he was married before he got his PR, or that he didn't declare his wife on his initial PR application. If that is the case, he will be barred from sponsoring his wife. However, it seems that may be a mistake.
What may have happened in his wife's sponsorship application is that they may have provided relationship details that indicate a conjugal relationship prior to the issuance of his COPR, which IRCC is then misinterpreting as a reason to deny the sponsorship.
Or, it could be the case that he just hadn't provided a marriage certificate or something and they're asking for a copy to be provided.
But because he won't provide the email, or provide more details, we don't actually know what his problem is. All we know is that (1) he says he was single when he got his PR, (2) he got married in 2014, and (3) there's some kind of mysterious message from IRCC about marriage that none of us can figure out.
I can understand that English is an extraordinarily complicated language and it's not an easy one to learn. But if the OP can kindly just share the email from IRCC we can read it and determine the issue, rather than attempting to discern it from confusing messages that miss details.
(i) the sponsor or the foreign national was, at the time of their marriage, the spouse of another
person.
5 For the purposes of these Regulations, a foreign national shall not be considered
(b) the spouse of a person if
(i) the foreign national or the person was, at the time of their marriage, the spouse of another
person, or
(ii) the person has lived separate and apart from the foreign national for at least one year and is
the common-law partner of another person
At the time of his application for permanent residence to Canada in 2011, your sponsor
indicated that he had previously been married and divorced. On the Document Checklist (form
IMM5533) submitted with your current application, your sponsor answered “no” to the following
question: Have you (the sponsor) ever been previously married
It appears that you have not disclosed your sponsor’s previous marriage, nor submitted any
documents to demonstrate that your sponsor’s divorce was registered with the civil or legal
authorities in Afghanistan at the time of the divorce. Although a man in Afghanistan may be
married to more than one woman at a time, polygamous marriage is not legal in Canada, and to
meet the definition of marriage as defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection
Regulations, your marriage must be valid in the country in which it took place (Afghanistan) and
in Canada. In the absence of a divorce certificate, I have concerns regarding the validity of your
marriage. If the marriage is not valid, you may not be considered to be a member of the family
class and your application for permanent residence may be refused. Please submit a copy of
your sponsor’s divorce certificate issued by civil or legal authorities, and provide an explanation,
in your own or your sponsor’s words, of the process followed in your sponsor’s divorce.
In addition, it appears that you may have misrepresented your sponsor’s previous marital history
on your application as you failed to disclose his previous marriage and divorce. This could have
led to an error in the application of the law as it relates to the validity of your current marriage.
Please note that, if you are found to have misrepresented a part of your application for
permanent residence in Canada which could have led to an error in the administration of the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, then you will not be permitted to apply for any kind of
temporary or permanent residence visa for Canada for 5 years.
Please use this opportunity to address my concerns and indicate any further information you
would like to be considered in respect of your application.
I would like to provide you with the opportunity to respond to this information. You will have 30
days from the date of this letter to make any re
person.
5 For the purposes of these Regulations, a foreign national shall not be considered
(b) the spouse of a person if
(i) the foreign national or the person was, at the time of their marriage, the spouse of another
person, or
(ii) the person has lived separate and apart from the foreign national for at least one year and is
the common-law partner of another person
At the time of his application for permanent residence to Canada in 2011, your sponsor
indicated that he had previously been married and divorced. On the Document Checklist (form
IMM5533) submitted with your current application, your sponsor answered “no” to the following
question: Have you (the sponsor) ever been previously married
It appears that you have not disclosed your sponsor’s previous marriage, nor submitted any
documents to demonstrate that your sponsor’s divorce was registered with the civil or legal
authorities in Afghanistan at the time of the divorce. Although a man in Afghanistan may be
married to more than one woman at a time, polygamous marriage is not legal in Canada, and to
meet the definition of marriage as defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection
Regulations, your marriage must be valid in the country in which it took place (Afghanistan) and
in Canada. In the absence of a divorce certificate, I have concerns regarding the validity of your
marriage. If the marriage is not valid, you may not be considered to be a member of the family
class and your application for permanent residence may be refused. Please submit a copy of
your sponsor’s divorce certificate issued by civil or legal authorities, and provide an explanation,
in your own or your sponsor’s words, of the process followed in your sponsor’s divorce.
In addition, it appears that you may have misrepresented your sponsor’s previous marital history
on your application as you failed to disclose his previous marriage and divorce. This could have
led to an error in the application of the law as it relates to the validity of your current marriage.
Please note that, if you are found to have misrepresented a part of your application for
permanent residence in Canada which could have led to an error in the administration of the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, then you will not be permitted to apply for any kind of
temporary or permanent residence visa for Canada for 5 years.
Please use this opportunity to address my concerns and indicate any further information you
would like to be considered in respect of your application.
I would like to provide you with the opportunity to respond to this information. You will have 30
days from the date of this letter to make any re
Pretty simple to understand. You told IRCC you were divorced when you applied for PR and then lied in the sponsorship app and failed to show a divorce certificate. So either you divorced your first wife and can submit the certificate or you didn't divorce her and therefore are not legally married to the person you are trying to sponsor.
Thank you.
The issue has nothing to do with your COPR. On your initial PR application in 2011 you said you had been married and divorced. You did not provide a divorce certificate.
On your wife's sponsorship, you said you had never been married.
Which is true?
The issue has nothing to do with your COPR. On your initial PR application in 2011 you said you had been married and divorced. You did not provide a divorce certificate.
On your wife's sponsorship, you said you had never been married.
Which is true?
So, it's very simple.
They, IRCC, believe that :
When you applied for PR, you said that you were divorced.
When you applied for sponsorship, you said that you were single.
They don't believe that you are giving correct information or are not telling the truth.
Are they correct?
Then why, on your initial PR application, did you say you had been divorced?
Or is that an error?
Here's the most important part of the email, aside from the deadline to reply and the warning about misrepresentation: