Hi everyone,
I have been out of status for quite sometime now and planning on applying for common law sponsorship. I had applied for it last year in 2021 however we withdrew our application because of a complicated situation.
Background story:
My boyfriend and I moved together in Jan 2016 with both of our names on the lease. He wasn’t a PR then. He got his PR in October 2016. As it wasn’t 1 year yet he didn’t put me as a dependent on his PR application. Also when he moved with me he never changed his address in any of the documents for personal reasons (He used to live with his cousin before he moved). Even on his PR application his old address was meant. However he changed his address on all documents in Feb 2017. (I fell out of status in January 2017) and we decided that we are gonna apply for common law sponsorship. We started doing our taxes in 2017 as common law (Even though his address wasn’t changed in any documents until Feb 2017, we lived together throughout 2016 we did the taxes that way).We started collecting other documents.
Fast forward to end of 2018 we gathered all the documents decided to apply but my boyfriend lost his job so we decided to postpone the application process.
2021 we decided to finally apply but because I was out of status and had to get PCC from my home country it too way too long and we applied. But my boyfriend got paranoid about some things the application. We had to withdraw it.
Reason we withdrew the application:
Even though we moved together in 2016 and did taxes as common law, he never had changed his address till February 2017. Even on his PR application his old address was mentioned. He got paranoid that it’s going to be a misrepresentation as we mentioned on the sponsorship application that we were living together since January 2016 when he applies for his citizenship.
We withdrew the application and we received it back in February of 2022.
In February 2022 we decided that we are gonna want to reapply some time this year as common law.
As he had not changed his address till 2017 and we had already filed out taxes as common law, we decided we are gonna go back on CRA and change some information for the year 2016. We only did that because he never changed his address until 2017 on any documents. We called CRA and we changed the marital status for 2016 and told them that we made a mistake (even though we didn’t). So our marital status for 2016 is single now, and we became common law in 2018 according to CRA. (Even though it’s technically 2017).
We had to make t house changes only because he didn’t mention the address that we were living at on his PR application and when he applies for citizenship he thinks it’s gonna be misrepresentation on the address part.
We are now planning to reapply in few months but I’m getting paranoid because when we applied in 2021 we provided the immigration the right lease (2016) and we made all those changes after we withdrew the application. So now when we reapply and provide them with new lease stating we started living from 2017 instead of 2016 is it gonna be a issue? Can they go back and check on the old withdrew documents provided when we applied last year? I don’t know. I’m worried. We are in a genuine relationship however this mess up has caused a mental stress to me.
What do you guys thing? Veteran forum people please tell me your thoughts
I have been out of status for quite sometime now and planning on applying for common law sponsorship. I had applied for it last year in 2021 however we withdrew our application because of a complicated situation.
Background story:
My boyfriend and I moved together in Jan 2016 with both of our names on the lease. He wasn’t a PR then. He got his PR in October 2016. As it wasn’t 1 year yet he didn’t put me as a dependent on his PR application. Also when he moved with me he never changed his address in any of the documents for personal reasons (He used to live with his cousin before he moved). Even on his PR application his old address was meant. However he changed his address on all documents in Feb 2017. (I fell out of status in January 2017) and we decided that we are gonna apply for common law sponsorship. We started doing our taxes in 2017 as common law (Even though his address wasn’t changed in any documents until Feb 2017, we lived together throughout 2016 we did the taxes that way).We started collecting other documents.
Fast forward to end of 2018 we gathered all the documents decided to apply but my boyfriend lost his job so we decided to postpone the application process.
2021 we decided to finally apply but because I was out of status and had to get PCC from my home country it too way too long and we applied. But my boyfriend got paranoid about some things the application. We had to withdraw it.
Reason we withdrew the application:
Even though we moved together in 2016 and did taxes as common law, he never had changed his address till February 2017. Even on his PR application his old address was mentioned. He got paranoid that it’s going to be a misrepresentation as we mentioned on the sponsorship application that we were living together since January 2016 when he applies for his citizenship.
We withdrew the application and we received it back in February of 2022.
In February 2022 we decided that we are gonna want to reapply some time this year as common law.
As he had not changed his address till 2017 and we had already filed out taxes as common law, we decided we are gonna go back on CRA and change some information for the year 2016. We only did that because he never changed his address until 2017 on any documents. We called CRA and we changed the marital status for 2016 and told them that we made a mistake (even though we didn’t). So our marital status for 2016 is single now, and we became common law in 2018 according to CRA. (Even though it’s technically 2017).
We had to make t house changes only because he didn’t mention the address that we were living at on his PR application and when he applies for citizenship he thinks it’s gonna be misrepresentation on the address part.
We are now planning to reapply in few months but I’m getting paranoid because when we applied in 2021 we provided the immigration the right lease (2016) and we made all those changes after we withdrew the application. So now when we reapply and provide them with new lease stating we started living from 2017 instead of 2016 is it gonna be a issue? Can they go back and check on the old withdrew documents provided when we applied last year? I don’t know. I’m worried. We are in a genuine relationship however this mess up has caused a mental stress to me.
What do you guys thing? Veteran forum people please tell me your thoughts
