Can a permanent resident apply an open work visa for her common law partner?

[Leon]

I do not know why an agency would advise you to lie to immigration. Lying is never a good idea. Whatever you do, you can never disclose to immigration now that you were common law partners at the time your partner landed as a PR because that would mean that your partner committed misrepresentation when they landed and they could lose their PR if that comes out.

The correct procedure would have been to include each other as common law partners on your applications and the first one to be approved, you would both have gotten your PR and cancelled the 2nd application.

 

[Shellane]

Hi Leon,

So whats my best option now.. To wait for my PPR and or apply from scratch as common law partners and i think this will fall in another category. Pls advise thanks.

 

[Leon]

You should wait for your PPR.

As I said, you can never disclose to immigration that you were common law partners before your partner immigrated because they will ask why she did not include you in her file. That would be misrepresentation on her part if you were common law partners when she landed and she did not include you and that can cost her her PR and even if they let her keep it, she would be barred from ever sponsoring you.

If you want to state that you are common law since after she landed, you would have to explain how you managed to co-habit for 12 months with her in Canada and you living somewhere else.