Hi everyone, I hope you guys are keeping well.
Me (Brazilian, 20) and my boyfriend (Canadian, 22) are on a difficult spot and I hope some of you could help us out, we are currently thinking to do the Common-Law Sponsorship once we have met the 12 months cohabitation criteria.
I moved to Canada the first time to live with my father when I was 17 and I met him a little bit after that, he's my boyfriend and my best friend ever since.
My father and I had a tough relationship and once he offered my mom for me to move and immigrate to Canada with him, which would be a great improvement of lifestyle, education and security in general that I would have in Brazil, so she accepted. However, that tough relationship proved to be even tougher when we were living together and I suffered psychological abuse while living with him, his wife and his 3 kids. After 6 months of enduring it, I came back to Brazil. My step-mother told me that she would still keep me in the process for the express entry.
The relationship between my boyfriend and I only got stronger, and I shortly came back to Canada to live with him and his mom for 6 months (visitor visa). At Brazil, I waited around 1 year until Immigration asked for the Passports for the CoPR and during this time he visited me once (stayed for one month) and his mother spent vacation with me (stayed for one week), both visiting me on separate occasions and residing with me and my mother.
I arrived in Canada the 2nd March to live permanently with my boyfriend and we even got an contract lease for an apartment. However, when I got the letter with my passport back, I discovered my step-mother included me as a non-accompanying dependent, thus not classifying me for the resident permanent, I asked him to sponsor me and he denied since he would need to provide financial care for me and now I'm very anxious about what should we do to stay together.
We are afraid our process for Common-Law Sponsorship would be denied for:
1- Our relationship will be 3 years old this August, but we have only lived together for 7 months (when we were at this mother and since I arrived), so I'm worried that's gonna raise red flags for a fake relationship. We have proof of his and his mother's visits to Brazil, photos, both our families knows about our relationship since the beginning, we will soon create joint bank account, I will have apartment bills to my name and he will include me to his insurance too.
2- I'm afraid they will raise questions about my relationship with my father as to why I was included as a non-accompanying and why he didn't want to sponsor me.
3-Would it seems suspicious if we wait for the 12 month criteria to start our process, or should it be some time have passed?
We thought too about marriage as it's something we were thinking about for our future and do a spousal sponsorship, but I'm anxious it would raise red flags as a fake relationship that is only after visa.
I hope someone can give us some very needed guidance to our problem.
Me (Brazilian, 20) and my boyfriend (Canadian, 22) are on a difficult spot and I hope some of you could help us out, we are currently thinking to do the Common-Law Sponsorship once we have met the 12 months cohabitation criteria.
I moved to Canada the first time to live with my father when I was 17 and I met him a little bit after that, he's my boyfriend and my best friend ever since.
My father and I had a tough relationship and once he offered my mom for me to move and immigrate to Canada with him, which would be a great improvement of lifestyle, education and security in general that I would have in Brazil, so she accepted. However, that tough relationship proved to be even tougher when we were living together and I suffered psychological abuse while living with him, his wife and his 3 kids. After 6 months of enduring it, I came back to Brazil. My step-mother told me that she would still keep me in the process for the express entry.
The relationship between my boyfriend and I only got stronger, and I shortly came back to Canada to live with him and his mom for 6 months (visitor visa). At Brazil, I waited around 1 year until Immigration asked for the Passports for the CoPR and during this time he visited me once (stayed for one month) and his mother spent vacation with me (stayed for one week), both visiting me on separate occasions and residing with me and my mother.
I arrived in Canada the 2nd March to live permanently with my boyfriend and we even got an contract lease for an apartment. However, when I got the letter with my passport back, I discovered my step-mother included me as a non-accompanying dependent, thus not classifying me for the resident permanent, I asked him to sponsor me and he denied since he would need to provide financial care for me and now I'm very anxious about what should we do to stay together.
We are afraid our process for Common-Law Sponsorship would be denied for:
1- Our relationship will be 3 years old this August, but we have only lived together for 7 months (when we were at this mother and since I arrived), so I'm worried that's gonna raise red flags for a fake relationship. We have proof of his and his mother's visits to Brazil, photos, both our families knows about our relationship since the beginning, we will soon create joint bank account, I will have apartment bills to my name and he will include me to his insurance too.
2- I'm afraid they will raise questions about my relationship with my father as to why I was included as a non-accompanying and why he didn't want to sponsor me.
3-Would it seems suspicious if we wait for the 12 month criteria to start our process, or should it be some time have passed?
We thought too about marriage as it's something we were thinking about for our future and do a spousal sponsorship, but I'm anxious it would raise red flags as a fake relationship that is only after visa.
I hope someone can give us some very needed guidance to our problem.
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