Partner Meeting Friends/Family

[sariss]

Me again!
I am going through my application and am looking at the sponsor questionnaire.

I can definitely list which friends and family my husband has met. Many of which I do remember the exact day, but others I do not. If I don't know the exact day they met him what do I do? Exclude them? Guess? Make up a date in the block of time I knew they DID meet?

Also they ask about previous marriages/common law/conjugal relationship. I was with a man from 2002 to 2008. I do not know where he lives because our relationship ended badly. Do I include him? Do I just put his address as unknown?

Thanks! And sorry for all the questions...

 

[parker24]

First of all, I don't remember when exactly half my friends met my husband, I was too excited to be grabbing a notebook and writing down "So and so met my husband on such and such a date" They just want to make sure your husband has met your friends and that he has intentions of making friends with them. It's more of a social aspect than anything else. I made up a date in the block of time I knew they met, but someone else might have a better answer than me!

As for the second question, did you file as a common law or conjugal couple? (Taxes etc) If not, don't bother.

 

[sidkrose]

For the meeting times, I would just put the month and year and then attach a short note explaining you do not remember the exact day. There are lots of people who do this, so don't worry.

 

[sariss]

My previous relationship was just conjugal. We started dating when I was 16 and ended when I was 22.

 

[sidkrose]

^ I wouldn't worry about it then. Unless there were any legal implications of you splitting up (financial affairs, custody of children etc.) But if you just dated all that time, I don't think it really qualifies as a conjugal relationship anyway. (Conjugal means "marriage-like")

 

[SAgirl]

Me again!
I am going through my application and am looking at the sponsor questionnaire.

I can definitely list which friends and family my husband has met. Many of which I do remember the exact day, but others I do not. If I don't know the exact day they met him what do I do? Exclude them? Guess? Make up a date in the block of time I knew they DID meet?

Also they ask about previous marriages/common law/conjugal relationship. I was with a man from 2002 to 2008. I do not know where he lives because our relationship ended badly. Do I include him? Do I just put his address as unknown?

Thanks! And sorry for all the questions...

Hi, this was my experience with this question.
I was in a relationship a few years before I met my husband. We lived to together for more than a year and kept all our affairs separate (taxes and so on) . For me it was not considered common law/conjugal, it was more boyfriend/girlfriend as I was still very young.
We had a lawyer help us with our application and they said that immigration will see that as common law/conjugal. I had to go to a Public Notary so they could sign a affidavit stating that the relationship ended on so and so date and that I have had no contact with him since then.
I also did not know his address and on my application the lawyers wrote UNKOWN