Please help

[trueblue88]

Hi,

What are the implications of applying for Express Entry as Skilled Worker and include my canadian common law partner in the application to obtain more points? What will the agents require to confirm the relationship? Interviews, additional documents? For instance we both filed for taxes separately and as single people, since we havent lived for a full year together yet, and the relationship has been rocky. We both are women, we live in the same house for almost a year, but I'm not sure if this relationship will last. I'm afraid that the agents will not believe it and accuse me of misrepresentation, and what if we break up?

Thanks.

 

[jickson]

Actually declaring a common-law partner can only decrease your points. Your maximum points will be reduced by 40 and that 40 points will be allocated to your common law partner to obtain. I don't see an upside for this, unless her profile can obtain much more points than you and you want to be the co-applicant, not the primary applicant.

 

[dobes]

Since you haven't lived together for a year yet, you are not common-law partners by the Canadian standard. And since you seem very unsure that the relationship will last or progress, and since she will not immigrate with you since she's already Canadian, I would consider her a girlfriend, not a spouse, and would not include her in the petition.

You won't get points under FSW for the relationship as it is less than a year long, so there is no benefit at all to mentioning her, and no penalty for not mentioning her.