Spouse or conjugal?

[Qurat ul ain]

I read a thread from a few years ago that if as a PR applicant, you didn't declare your girlfriend/boyfriend/fiance(e) and applied with Single label. And basically you didn't live together/marry because of immigration barriers/religious law issues but managed to marry after you got PR, then you can never sponsor them even after you manage to marry in a country where your marriage is legal even if that marriage is legal in Canada. Is that true. It seems really outrageous. Isn't Conjugal very strictly for those who have absolutely no other choice but to do it this way? I'm very confused.

 

[starnaenae]

As advised in your third
Post with the same question if you got married your partner is your SPOUSE and you DO NOT qualify for conjugal

 

[starnaenae]

From the CIC website:

A conjugal partner is:

• a person who is living outside Canada,
• in a conjugal relationship with the sponsor for at least one year, and
• could not live with the sponsor as a couple because of reasons beyond their control (e.g. immigration barrier, religious reasons or sexual orientation).

This term applies to both opposite and same-gender couples.

You can sponsor a conjugal partner if:

• there is a significant degree of attachment between the two of you, implying not just a physical relationship but a mutually interdependent relationship, and
• you’ve been in a genuine (real) relationship for at least 12 months where marriage or cohabitation (living together) hasn’t been possible because of barriers such as sexual orientation, religious faith, etc.

 

[Qurat ul ain]

We are planning to get married. I want to know if they expected my boyfriend to enter the girlfriend in his PR application. And since he didn't enter me in his PR app, are they going to make an issue out of it?

We weren't married, nor were we common law. We are boyfriend/girlfriend who are still trying to figure things out, including how to manage our families given we are different religions and belong to countries that can't stand each other - India and Pakistan.

 

[starnaenae]

We are planning to get married. I want to know if they expected my boyfriend to enter the girlfriend in his PR application. And since he didn't enter me in his PR app, are they going to make an issue out of it?

We weren't married, nor were we common law. We are boyfriend/girlfriend who are still trying to figure things out, including how to manage our families given we are different religions and belong to countries that can't stand each other - India and Pakistan.

You dont have to declare bf/gf. Because you CAN get married you will not qualify for conjugal