Okay, I need some advice. Good news and bad news for me today. My girlfriend got an email today saying that she meets the requirements to sponsor me. I got an email saying that I have to provide further information regarding our common law partnership. Here is exactly what it said:
This letter refers to your application for permanent residence under the Spouse or Common-law
Partner in Canada class.
In order to continue processing your application in Canada, further information is required. You
must complete/submit the following to the Case Processing Centre:
You did not provide sufficient evidence that you are a common-law partner (cohabitating for a
period of at least one year at time of application). Acceptable documentation includes:
declaration of common-law relationship, evidence of joint bank, trust, credit union or charge card
accounts; jointly signed residential lease, mortgage or purchase agreement, insurance and/or
beneficiary forms. This documentation must provide evidence dated at least one year
prior to the date of your application. Other supporting documentation such as statutory
declarations of individuals with personal knowledge that your relationship is genuine and
continuing may be considered. Please do not send any electronic media items, such as CDs,
DVDs, or VHS tapes
The information requested above must be received at this office by April 10, 2014. If these
items are not received, your application for permanent residence may be refused and no further
consideration will be given to your request for permanent residence unless a new application,
including fees, is submitted.
At the time we didn't share any bank accounts. We were just living together. To cut a story short, I grew up living with my brother in a house that he owned. When I realized that the relationship with my girlfriend was serious, she moved in with me and my brother in September 2011. There is obviously no tenancy agreement as I was living with family. I filed my app for PR in March 2013. Would it be a good idea to contact my brother back in the UK and ask him now to write up a lease which I will get my GF to sign with the date she moved in? Or would it be better to simply ask my brother to provide a letter stating the circumstances that he was the owner and that me and my GF lived with him?
Help much appreciated!!!