Need advice: same-sex sponsorship

[Leon]

No, you can say you already had a relationship but you can never admit that you were already common law partners at the time your girlfriend immigrated. If you had lived together as lovers at all, it must be for less than 12 months.

 

[Bengkoy0430]

No, you can say you already had a relationship but you can never admit that you were already common law partners at the time your girlfriend immigrated. If you had lived together as lovers at all, it must be for less than 12 months.

I guess that's the best way to do it, but what's the best way to get a tourist visa? Do I reason vacation or sight seeing and declare that I am visiting my girlfriend, would it help if she gives me an invitation letter? And if we get married in Canada and while I'm still there, we apply for spousal relationship, can the VO thinks of our case as marriage for convenience?

 

[Leon]

I guess that's the best way to do it, but what's the best way to get a tourist visa? Do I reason vacation or sight seeing and declare that I am visiting my girlfriend, would it help if she gives me an invitation letter? And if we get married in Canada and while I'm still there, we apply for spousal relationship, can the VO thinks of our case as marriage for convenience?

You can say you are visiting your girlfriend. Having an invitation letter from her may help. When you apply for sponsorship, you need to prove your relationship like any other couple. Show that you have emailed each other since she went to Canada, that you have talked to each other on the phone, that you had a relationship before she immigrated and even lived together for some months etc.

 

[Bengkoy0430]

You can say you are visiting your girlfriend. Having an invitation letter from her may help. When you apply for sponsorship, you need to prove your relationship like any other couple. Show that you have emailed each other since she went to Canada, that you have talked to each other on the phone, that you had a relationship before she immigrated and even lived together for some months etc.

Thank you so much...

 

[Bengkoy0430]

No, you can say you already had a relationship but you can never admit that you were already common law partners at the time your girlfriend immigrated. If you had lived together as lovers at all, it must be for less than 12 months.

Hi Leon, I just need to clarify something. Can I declare that our relationship started April 2011 and continued until she immigrated July 2012, but not as common law partner so we won't be confused with the details of the relationship in case there will be an interview? It won't fall in the conjugal relationship either if we are to declare that we only lived as lovers for less than 12 mos. and we haven't merge our finances yet? It would also be the reason why I am not declared in her PR application, because our relationship, though more than a year, doesn't fit the common law/conjugal category?

 

[Leon]

Hi Leon, I just need to clarify something. Can I declare that our relationship started April 2011 and continued until she immigrated July 2012, but not as common law partner so we won't be confused with the details of the relationship in case there will be an interview? It won't fall in the conjugal relationship either if we are to declare that we only lived as lovers for less than 12 mos. and we haven't merge our finances yet? It would also be the reason why I am not declared in her PR application, because our relationship, though more than a year, doesn't fit the common law/conjugal category?

Yes, you can be truthful about when the relationship started but you can not have lived together for 12 months or more at the time she landed as a PR. You can say you had lived together as a couple of not for that long.

 

[Bengkoy0430]

Yes, you can be truthful about when the relationship started but you can not have lived together for 12 months or more at the time she landed as a PR. You can say you had lived together as a couple of not for that long.

Thanks again...