Small court secret marriage no family or friends

[stargazerlilly]

Hello.

My wife and I had a court marriage. No one knew about it. As a matter of fact, our witness were the people working at the court room. We have evidence of 3 years of relationship, passport stamps, bus, plane tickets, chats and lots of pictures in different places. We are planning to have a real ceremony someday but right now we are both students and dont have an income, we just want to live in the same country. Im in the states as a student, no green card(venezolan citizen) besides her parents (she is sponsoring me) were not too supportive about it because "we are too young".

Anyone been trhough a similar situation where no relatives or friends were at the wedding and got approved or denied? Any advice for the application? Thank you.

We were married in Ontario with no relatives and the minister's wife and their friend as our witnesses. Became PR a year after we filed and I became Canadian last year. We didn't even have pictures or whatnot on our civil wedding day but we've got lots of other proof that ours was a genuine relationship....joint bank account;rental agreement,utility bills in both our names and we filed our taxes as a married couple.
The difference with ours and yours, is we're both in Canada and working. He still sponsored me though, since I was in Canada as a foreign worker.

 

[Aquakitty]

We didn't have family or friends at our wedding either as we "eloped" so to speak, but the situation is much different as you are not a US citizen.

I think your best course of action going forward is to try and get her parents on your side. It will save you a lot of issues, and be realistic, they are going to find out eventually. But, if not, you've met her parents, so they know about your relationship, just not about the marriage. I don't know what the new forms will ask, but the old ones have some questions about if family knows about your relationship. They don't specifically say "do your family members know you are married" so you don't have to worry about that question.

Regardless of what happens with her parents, make sure you show your savings, or plans for savings, and your plan for job searching and housing in Canada.

 

[Sneakydriver]

I think we will wait until january when she is moving out from her parents house. we told them and they are very opposed to it... so opposed that they said they will call inmigration... so ya she is moving out. I'm working in the states and can support her thanks to the canadian dollar being so low right now and hope it stays like that for a while haha. Her mom wrote me a letter long time ago for my visitor visa, and I have pictures with them, like right next to them. This should confirm they knew our relationship was genuine but at the end they did not support our marriage.

 

[hansy]

I think we will wait until january when she is moving out from her parents house. we told them and they are very opposed to it... so opposed that they said they will call inmigration... so ya she is moving out. I'm working in the states and can support her thanks to the canadian dollar being so low right now and hope it stays like that for a while haha. Her mom wrote me a letter long time ago for my visitor visa, and I have pictures with them, like right next to them. This should confirm they knew our relationship was genuine but at the end they did not support our marriage.

I hope you are both together now, could you please share your experience?