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Procedural Fairness Letter

darkbeast007

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Nov 8, 2024
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Thanks! Good luck to you as well
good luck.
I received same PFL today and I replied making explanation. In my situation is when my spouse apply for his PR we were not spouse or common law. We started living together later and then after 1year my spouse tried to add me in his file and sent webform but they never reply that webform and processed my spouse PR as single. So after my spouse PR, we applied for my inland common law PR but today we received PFL so I explained that my spouse sent you webform to add common law but IRCC never responded to that. I hopefully think it will work and turn into APPROVAL.
 
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james.mc

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Apr 3, 2024
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I received same PFL today and I replied making explanation. In my situation is when my spouse apply for his PR we were not spouse or common law. We started living together later and then after 1year my spouse tried to add me in his file and sent webform but they never reply that webform and processed my spouse PR as single. So after my spouse PR, we applied for my inland common law PR but today we received PFL so I explained that my spouse sent you webform to add common law but IRCC never responded to that. I hopefully think it will work and turn into APPROVAL.
How did it go.Did your application got approved
 

jamesmchacko

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May 15, 2021
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I am also in the same situation.Then my girlfriend came to canada for studies on 2015 and got her PR approved in 2021.

i came to canada on 2019 on study permit but started living in the same apartment with her along with our room mates.we married last year and applied for my spousal application but got the PFL saying my sponsor failed to declare me as common law partner during when she applied her application back in 2019

Anyone faced similiar situation and got the application approved
 

armoured

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I am also in the same situation.Then my girlfriend came to canada for studies on 2015 and got her PR approved in 2021.

i came to canada on 2019 on study permit but started living in the same apartment with her along with our room mates.we married last year and applied for my spousal application but got the PFL saying my sponsor failed to declare me as common law partner during when she applied her application back in 2019
From your description, that's exactly what happened, except that the failure was not failing to declare you in 2019 - but rather as soon as you became common law, sometime in 2020. (One year after you started living together).

The PR information states clearly that the applicant MUST update and contact IRCC if their family situation changes. Becoming common law is just htat type of change.
 

jamesmchacko

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May 15, 2021
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From your description, that's exactly what happened, except that the failure was not failing to declare you in 2019 - but rather as soon as you became common law, sometime in 2020. (One year after you started living together).

The PR information states clearly that the applicant MUST update and contact IRCC if their family situation changes. Becoming common law is just htat type of change.
her final decision came on Nov and i became Common law eligible only on Dec.is that a good reason?
And because it was a covid 19 period she didnt recieved any letter to confirm anything,like PR portal update, she recieved the COPR without confirming anything
 

armoured

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her final decision came on Nov and i became Common law eligible only on Dec.is that a good reason?
You'll have to be explicit about the exact dates - above I understood you started living together in 2019 and she became a PR in 2022. Please clarify.

And because it was a covid 19 period she didnt recieved any letter to confirm anything,like PR portal update, she recieved the COPR without confirming anything
I believe even then there was a process to confirm via portal. You could raise this, but in my opinion a poor defence.
 
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