Harrybuttar said:
The thing is we didnt show our status anywhere when i applied for pr at first stage.. My status is still single now..we have been living together from last 3 years at same address.. But now we are thinking to get married through civil marriage and get marriage certificate but m confused that we shud do this thing before or after landing.. Plz help me through this..
If you wait to do it after landing, and it comes up -anywhere, anyhow, at anytime- that you had been living together as common-law partners for more than one year before your landing date, you will definitely be banned from ever being able to sponsor her, and CIC may choose to go after you for misrepresentation and revoke your PR.
You have one of only two ways to proceed:
1. Rectify the situation now (before landing) and add her to the application. This will add a few more months to the processing time, but you -legitimately- receive two pr's.
2. Keep insisting on the lie in order to land faster as a single person. This will entail more lying and fabricating (read: digging a bigger hole for yourself and your girlfiriend, since she will have to lie too) and you assume the risk of having both your pr's denied/revoked.
A couple of examples off the top of my head: when your girlfriend has to list all her prior addresses, won't they match yours? When you submit those same documents you mentioned to prove the authenticity of the relationship and they go back 3+ years, what do you think the CIC will conclude? When they ask you when the relationship started? etc.
It's up to you to choose. But there is no third option out of this (and getting married will have zero effect).
