Hi all,
I'm a New Zealander, my husband is French Canadian. We began our relationship in 2002 and lived together as common-law partners for ten years. We married in Canada a few months ago. I've got a couple of questions I hope you can help me with please.
I understand that our relationship will raise some red flags as I am older than my husband. What's the best way to address this? Age is irrelevant to us and should be irrelevant to anyone else, given that we have been in a committed relationship for so long, but I understand that eyebrows will be raised by our ten year age gap.
Five years ago we went through the immigration process for New Zealand as we intended then to make NZ our permanent home. We got a copy of my husband's immigration file (because a computer disaster meant we lost our old records) - should we include this with all its copies of correspondence, letters, etc or would that raise more issues because it comes from an immigration record for another country?
We have almost no records of the first year of our relationship (due to the dead computer) and don't have a lot of photos of the two of us together since we tend to take photos of places rather than people. I've got a few showing time passing over the ten years. Will that be enough?
What do I need to do to make sure they look at how long we have been together instead of just how long we have been married? We married early this year but with 10 years of living together as common-law I don't want them to think we have married hastily and quickly applied for PR for me.
This 11 year history is turning into a nightmare of trying to work out how much I need to include to prove our relationship is genuine. The hard evidence (bills, bank account, shared ownership of home, etc are easy - its the rest that troubles me). Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
I'm a New Zealander, my husband is French Canadian. We began our relationship in 2002 and lived together as common-law partners for ten years. We married in Canada a few months ago. I've got a couple of questions I hope you can help me with please.
I understand that our relationship will raise some red flags as I am older than my husband. What's the best way to address this? Age is irrelevant to us and should be irrelevant to anyone else, given that we have been in a committed relationship for so long, but I understand that eyebrows will be raised by our ten year age gap.
Five years ago we went through the immigration process for New Zealand as we intended then to make NZ our permanent home. We got a copy of my husband's immigration file (because a computer disaster meant we lost our old records) - should we include this with all its copies of correspondence, letters, etc or would that raise more issues because it comes from an immigration record for another country?
We have almost no records of the first year of our relationship (due to the dead computer) and don't have a lot of photos of the two of us together since we tend to take photos of places rather than people. I've got a few showing time passing over the ten years. Will that be enough?
What do I need to do to make sure they look at how long we have been together instead of just how long we have been married? We married early this year but with 10 years of living together as common-law I don't want them to think we have married hastily and quickly applied for PR for me.
This 11 year history is turning into a nightmare of trying to work out how much I need to include to prove our relationship is genuine. The hard evidence (bills, bank account, shared ownership of home, etc are easy - its the rest that troubles me). Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
