Relationship Proof: Already in Canada

[Baloo]

Coming from Holland all this work is mindblowing.
In Holland all you have to do is eat your passport on arrival and you are good for about 18 years

I heard that you have a lot of hungry visitors in Holland.

 

[Kazakhstan]

I've gone through all the forms, but it seems that every time you read them you discover something new.
We've been living together for 2 years, but absolute solid proof is only available from 1 year back. (The deed to our house)
before that she was just renting an apartment and i was paying for half.

You guys own a house together for the past 12 months, do I understand you correctly? What proof on itself can be more solid? Any correspondence during this time addressed to your names together or separately? Purchases, like furniture and stuff by you both? Any of the friends visited you guys during this time? Can they write their statements? Etc. Get creative.

We have tons of pictures of trips in both Canada and Europe together, my whole family knows we are getting married (With the whole big wedding thing) next August.

We've traveled together around the world extensively too, and besides from pics we've kept all airplane tickets, boarding passes, med insurance papers etc, hotel bills, car rental receipts etc etc which I included too (in reasonable but convincing quantity).

As for all your family knowing, it's good, you're required to indicate who does and give their contact info. Any more substantial proof of wedding preparation (if there's any)?

I'll probably add the engagement pictures and if i have to, i'll even add a copy-receipt of the engagement ring.

Those are great ideas. You absolutely should include those. They ask about engagement too, as you know from the forms.

I have e-mails in the thousands from when we were living apart the first year, but they are not exactly, useful (I miss you, only 60 more sleeps kinda stuff)

Why not useful??? Correspondence when living separately IS a proof of a relationship. "I miss you I love you" is just the right kind of proof ))

 

[Kazakhstan]

Maybe i'll just put my fiancee in a box and add it to the application, she's pretty convincing.

Ha ha ha!!

'Hey honey, get into this box quick, I'm shipping you to CPC-M as the ULTIMATE proof'

 

[Kazakhstan]

That's what my wife keeps telling me But I want there to be no doubt to the IO. The photos are not just of us, but us together with my wife's children and both our families.

Okay, send in all of them - whatever makes you feel safe. Excess is better than insufficiency, you know. ;D

 

[McDutch]

Yeah, i guess i'll just send in a potpourri of awesome relationship stuff.
I hear Berlin is super fast processing this stuff, so i hope we'll have an answer soon!

 

[Kazakhstan]

Yeah, i guess i'll just send in a potpourri of awesome relationship stuff.

That's the way to go.

I hear Berlin is super fast processing this stuff, so i hope we'll have an answer soon!

Not exactly: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm/fc-spouses.asp

2.5 months + 9 months... Some visa offices are waaaaaaay faster...

 

[Kazakhstan]

In Holland all you have to do is eat your passport on arrival and you are good for about 18 years

Well, look at what's happening to the Old World as the result... At least here there's some sanity in the immigration process, but plenty room for abuse and fraud anyways, unfortunately.....

 

[McDutch]

About Berlin: Their timeslines on the website are long, but every story i hear is that they are superfast when your application is in order.
That's the Germans for you i guess.

I know Canada's Immigration system is fair, it's just too bad they cannot decide if they want Skilled Fertile Immigrants or protect their jobs

 

[Kazakhstan]

About Berlin: Their timeslines on the website are long, but every story i hear is that they are superfast when your application is in order.
That's the Germans for you i guess.

The website gives averaged statistics for 80% of the cases during the past 12 months... So yes, it can be faster for sure, for 'routine' cases and if their current wait queue at the time they receive your app from CPC-M is smaller. But from my observations, these statistical timelines are usually a pretty accurate estimation... But you never know how the application volume tendencies can change with time (ups and downs, usually). How long it takes lately, you hear?

I know Canada's Immigration system is fair, it's just too bad they cannot decide if they want Skilled Fertile Immigrants or protect their jobs

Well, they still want that's for sure. Canada's gov't has been restricting the immigration policies since around 2007 to cut down on the insane backlog of cases... The previous liberal gov't had irresponsibly opened the gates too wide in order to appease their voters which resulted in a gigantic influx of less-qualified applicants...

 

[Kazakhstan]

Read this manual, I gave you the wrong link before:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/ip/ip08-eng.pdf

 

[GPSMiami1610]

150 is way too many! I sent I think 6, spanning about 8 years of time, and one of them was to prove we had matching tattoos. (Because we don't have wedding rings.) ;D

Unless the relationship is younger than a year or two, I'd say just one picture for every year you've been together. I did the same with printing copies of our e-mails, and then sent the oldest (1 year back) and newest printout of my phone records.

 

[Kazakhstan]

one of them was to prove we had matching tattoos. (Because we don't have wedding rings.) ;D

And where exactly those tattoos are? Just curious