Common law documents?

[Ace241283]

Hello, my girlfriend and I would like to apply for a common law visa or a conjugal visa. We have been living together for over a year now, but we don't have any of the supporting documents to prove it (utilities, lease etc) as we have been living with either her parents in Canada or my parents in the UK.

This obviously throws massive doubt into our ability to apply for a visa so that I can come and live with her when she flys back to Canada. Is there any advise or recommendations from anyone?

 

[Bcboundboy]

Hello, my girlfriend and I would like to apply for a common law visa or a conjugal visa. We have been living together for over a year now, but we don't have any of the supporting documents to prove it (utilities, lease etc) as we have been living with either her parents in Canada or my parents in the UK.

This obviously throws massive doubt into our ability to apply for a visa so that I can come and live with her when she flys back to Canada. Is there any advise or recommendations from anyone?

You won't qualify for conjugal (you face no legal or immigration barriers to being married or CL). Presumably you had mail going to the same places (phone bills, credit cards, driver licences), so you should have been keeping those. If you genuinely have no supporting documentation (did it mostly online/didn't re-register DLs, threw it out), then notarised letters from your parents may help, but you'll probably struggle.

 

[canadianwoman]

Don't bother with conjugal.
You can always come to Canada as a visitor, and if you are a UK citizen you do not need a visa.

 

[Ace241283]

Thanks for the replies.

We'll skip the conjugal then.

The problem is that she is heading back to university, so will live there for a few years. We don't want to be apart that long and I can't afford to just visit all the time.

Is there any way we could get our parents to say we were here/there as evidence or would that not be suitable?

 

[Ace241283]

Also we do have letters such as bank statements and visa documents (hers for the uk).

We just don't have lease documents or utilities. I had to state that I was going to be living at her parents when I visited last year, as I was on a visitor visa then.

We also have a joint credit card that we took out about 6 months ago.