Common-Law Sponsorship - No Joint Financials

[pickle33]

Hi
I am currently trying to gather information to be able to sponsor my UK boyfriend of 3 years. We have lived together for a year and a half and have 2 leases to prove it. Although we figure that would be enough to show we have lived together for the required time, we do not have any of the other financial documents to show. I do have him on my rental insurance and have 2 statements showing that, as well as a million bits of evidence of the legitimacy of our relationship, but I am worried that it won't be enough. We are also not on eachother life insurance policies and are not each other beneficiaries. We have no joint bank accounts/credit cards, and our bills are not shared as he pays our TV/Internet and I pay our utilities.

I guess my question is.. does anyone know our chances of even qualifying for sponsorship with no actual joint financials?
Thankyou!

 

[canadianwoman]

It should be possible. Not everyone has joint finances. Having a lease showing a full 12 months of cohabitation is the most important.

You do not have to have both names on a utility bill for it to be considered evidence of joined finances, however. You pay some utilities, and he pays others: this is also evidence that your lives are joined (as long as the addresses for the bills are the same). Include that as evidence of cohabitation.

On the application, do not refer to each other as boyfriend and girlfriend - you are common-law partners now.