Hi, a question about previous common law relationships and the spousal sponsorship.
Is there a possibility that having a joint lease agreement with a male friend for several years (while dating my Canadian boyfriend long-distance before we got seriously committed) would make our relationship sound not genuine? Me and my flatmate moved apart before I got engaged to my partner, and we were actually never in a romantic relationship but only living together as friends, mainly to save money as we were both students and our friends and families lived far away from our schools. The only reason I have to ask clarification for this is the fact that the social security institution of my home country automatically classifies two unrelated, opposite-gender people residing together with a joint lease agreement as common-law partners. It is notoriously hard to convince them otherwise, so we didn't even bother trying. The tax offices however do not think we belonged to the same household, and my marital status was still single/unmarried in the civil registry while we shared the apartment. We never had joint ownership or bank account, shared plans or a shared bedroom, and our residing together had no other implications besides potentially the amount of housing benefit we might get from the social insurance institution. We never even spent vacations or holidays together - I always travelled to Canada to my boyfriend whenever I wasn't bound by school. Basically, we lived together to save money because splitting the rent saves a LOT of it here as opposed to living alone.
I am very unsure about what I should write in the app about this. I do not want to commit misrepresentation, but on the other hand I wouldn't want cic to think that I've been romantically involved with somebody else while also dating my boyfriend, and cause unnecessary suspicion. That aside, we have heaps of evidence to support the genuinity of our relationship, and my so called "common-law relationship" during our dating phase is the only thing that might confuse them.
Should I indicate it in the app as a common-law relationship anyway or just leave it out completely to avoid confusion? Would including the common law in the app even make a big difference since it both began and ended before we got engaged?
Thanks for any advice and thoughts in advance.
Is there a possibility that having a joint lease agreement with a male friend for several years (while dating my Canadian boyfriend long-distance before we got seriously committed) would make our relationship sound not genuine? Me and my flatmate moved apart before I got engaged to my partner, and we were actually never in a romantic relationship but only living together as friends, mainly to save money as we were both students and our friends and families lived far away from our schools. The only reason I have to ask clarification for this is the fact that the social security institution of my home country automatically classifies two unrelated, opposite-gender people residing together with a joint lease agreement as common-law partners. It is notoriously hard to convince them otherwise, so we didn't even bother trying. The tax offices however do not think we belonged to the same household, and my marital status was still single/unmarried in the civil registry while we shared the apartment. We never had joint ownership or bank account, shared plans or a shared bedroom, and our residing together had no other implications besides potentially the amount of housing benefit we might get from the social insurance institution. We never even spent vacations or holidays together - I always travelled to Canada to my boyfriend whenever I wasn't bound by school. Basically, we lived together to save money because splitting the rent saves a LOT of it here as opposed to living alone.
I am very unsure about what I should write in the app about this. I do not want to commit misrepresentation, but on the other hand I wouldn't want cic to think that I've been romantically involved with somebody else while also dating my boyfriend, and cause unnecessary suspicion. That aside, we have heaps of evidence to support the genuinity of our relationship, and my so called "common-law relationship" during our dating phase is the only thing that might confuse them.
Should I indicate it in the app as a common-law relationship anyway or just leave it out completely to avoid confusion? Would including the common law in the app even make a big difference since it both began and ended before we got engaged?
Thanks for any advice and thoughts in advance.
