Common-law sponsership

[Gurdev2931]

Since you are already planning on getting married: if you get married before you submit, you substantially reduce the risk of a technicality or shortage of documentation (again, from the perspective of the visa officer) resulting in your application getting rejected for not meeting the common law test.

You can always have the larger wedding ceremony afterwards (esp since not known when covid restrictions will be lifted). If there are religious issues, most/many religions will allow for a 'blessing of union' event.

Note we can say 'civil marriage' and you can have a separate civil ceremony, but in Canada most religious weddings are combined civil/religious, with the officiant 'deputised' by government to conduct the civil marriage - that's the part where witnesses sign the marriage docs.

At any rate if religion is a factor, speak to the people at your religious institution. I'm sure in covid time they will attempt to be accommodating.

Not pushing, but I don't see why you would not get married before submitting app if you're planning to get married anyways.

Thank you very much for your thoughts ,
The only reason we are not getting married is that, i am afriad that the visa officer could reject the file because we couldnt wait for the pandemic to go away to get married. They might think we are only getting married for the sponsrship

 

[Canada2020eh]

Thank you very much for your thoughts ,
The only reason we are not getting married is that, i am afriad that the visa officer could reject the file because we couldnt wait for the pandemic to go away to get married. They might think we are only getting married for the sponsrship

If you have lots of evidence to back up your relationship from the past then I don't see why they would do that.

 

[armoured]

Thank you very much for your thoughts ,
The only reason we are not getting married is that, i am afriad that the visa officer could reject the file because we couldnt wait for the pandemic to go away to get married. They might think we are only getting married for the sponsrship

In this case, you're thinking too hard. If the rest of your relationship stands up, marriage won't make things worse, it will help.