Any replies would be greatly appreciated to guide me on this matter.
I am a Muslim Canadian citizen. My husband and I married on December 28, 2014 in Pakistan but knew each other for one year prior to our marriage. At the time of our marriage, he was still legally married to his first wife but they had been separated for a year before our marriage. Under the Muslim Sharia Law a Muslim man is allowed to have more than one spouse. He eventually divorced his first wife in December 2015, one year after our marriage. He does not have any previous children and we are now expecting our first child in two months, and I am planning to apply for the sponsor AFTER our child is born to strengthen our application.
When I apply for a spousal sponsor, I have to state his previous marriage and divorce date as it appears of December 2015. Now the problem is that the Canadian law does not recognize the marriage of a Canadian citizen to a person who is at the time of marriage already a spouse to another person. How will I prove to CIC that our marriage is legal and that he has now legally divorced his first wife? Will my application be refused simply because at the time of our marriage he was already a spouse to another woman? Is there any way around this problem that will guarantee the sponsor application being approved? His divorce is not submitted anywhere as a legal document yet, so can we backdate this document to a date before our marriage in 2014 in Pakistan and then submit it to CIC along with our application?
Please reply with any help as it will be greatly appreciated, thank you.
I am a Muslim Canadian citizen. My husband and I married on December 28, 2014 in Pakistan but knew each other for one year prior to our marriage. At the time of our marriage, he was still legally married to his first wife but they had been separated for a year before our marriage. Under the Muslim Sharia Law a Muslim man is allowed to have more than one spouse. He eventually divorced his first wife in December 2015, one year after our marriage. He does not have any previous children and we are now expecting our first child in two months, and I am planning to apply for the sponsor AFTER our child is born to strengthen our application.
When I apply for a spousal sponsor, I have to state his previous marriage and divorce date as it appears of December 2015. Now the problem is that the Canadian law does not recognize the marriage of a Canadian citizen to a person who is at the time of marriage already a spouse to another person. How will I prove to CIC that our marriage is legal and that he has now legally divorced his first wife? Will my application be refused simply because at the time of our marriage he was already a spouse to another woman? Is there any way around this problem that will guarantee the sponsor application being approved? His divorce is not submitted anywhere as a legal document yet, so can we backdate this document to a date before our marriage in 2014 in Pakistan and then submit it to CIC along with our application?
Please reply with any help as it will be greatly appreciated, thank you.