Getting married after submitting common law PR application.

[peddlepower]

Hello,

As of January 1st, my fiance and I will be considered common law. I am planning on applying for common law PR as her sponsor, as we have been living together for 12 consecutive months.

We are planning on getting married in the Summer. Once we are married, do I just inform immigration via the application of a status change? Will this impact the processing time of the application?

Thanks for the support!

 

[armoured]

Hello,

As of January 1st, my fiance and I will be considered common law. I am planning on applying for common law PR as her sponsor, as we have been living together for 12 consecutive months.

We are planning on getting married in the Summer. Once we are married, do I just inform immigration via the application of a status change? Will this impact the processing time of the application?

Thanks for the support!

You would just provide an update via webform. No change in process, no impact on processing time (if anything, might speed it up a bit as sort of proof-of-relationship).

Note, formally you still would need to meet all the tests of common-law as at the time of application, so be sure to get documentation right.

 

[peddlepower]

Thank you so much!

 

[October applicant]

Could someone please let me know what should I answer for the question asking "have you previously been married or in a common law relationship?"

My spouse and I are cohabiting together since Jan 2022 and I applied for my PR in Oct 2022 (Declared as single in my PR application since we didn't satisfy common law partner criteria as 12 months weren't completed cohabiting), we got married recently in October 2023 and now applying for Inland sponsorship as a spouse. Do I answer as 'Yes' to the question asking for previous common law relationship and mention my spouse' name as a common law partner from the date we attained common law partner status(Jan 2023) to the date we got married(Oct 2023)? As we were satisfying the common law partner criteria with the same person before getting married.