Hello,
My Thai wife and I we are completing our application this week. We were ready to send it, when I read on this forum that we needed to provide her birth certificate.
We'll send the application to Singapore, here's the specific requirement where the birth certificate is named :
"PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP TO SPONSOR
If you are being sponsored by your parent, you must provide proof of the relationship such as birth certificates, baptismal certificates or other official document naming your parents.
If you are being sponsored by your spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner, you must send evidence of the relationship between you and your sponsor such as wedding photos or proof that you are partners, letters between you and your sponsor, and telephone bills showing contact between you and your sponsor.
Note: Photos must be loose; do not send them in binders, albums, frames or other such containers. Do not send video discs or video cassettes. Do not send musical greeeting cards or other similar documents containing electronic or mechanical devices.
Proof of your sponsor’s visits such as airline ticket coupons, boarding passes, copies of pages of your sponsor's passport showing entry/exit stamps.
If you are a common-law or conjugal partner, provide evidence that your relationship is genuine and continuing and has existed for at least 12 months prior to your application. Also provide details of the history of your relationship and at least two statutory declarations from individuals with personal knowledge of your relationship supporting your claim that the relationship is genuine and continuing.
Note: The sponsor and the applicant who are common law or conjugal partners must provide historical evidence of their ongoing relationship. If they are in a relationship of two years or less and have no children together, the applicant will receive conditional permanent resident status, if the application is approved."
My interpretation of this is that you need only to provide a birth certificate IF it proves your relationship to the sponsor, for example if your sponsor is your parent or relative. The only think that proves family relationship between her and I is the marriage certificate...
We will send the marriage certificate and a copy of the passport of course. But do you think we really need to provide the birth certificate also?? It would delay the sending of the application, but would be better than being even more delayed buy a request of missing document from CIC.
Thanks a lot for your advise.
My Thai wife and I we are completing our application this week. We were ready to send it, when I read on this forum that we needed to provide her birth certificate.
We'll send the application to Singapore, here's the specific requirement where the birth certificate is named :
"PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP TO SPONSOR
If you are being sponsored by your parent, you must provide proof of the relationship such as birth certificates, baptismal certificates or other official document naming your parents.
If you are being sponsored by your spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner, you must send evidence of the relationship between you and your sponsor such as wedding photos or proof that you are partners, letters between you and your sponsor, and telephone bills showing contact between you and your sponsor.
Note: Photos must be loose; do not send them in binders, albums, frames or other such containers. Do not send video discs or video cassettes. Do not send musical greeeting cards or other similar documents containing electronic or mechanical devices.
Proof of your sponsor’s visits such as airline ticket coupons, boarding passes, copies of pages of your sponsor's passport showing entry/exit stamps.
If you are a common-law or conjugal partner, provide evidence that your relationship is genuine and continuing and has existed for at least 12 months prior to your application. Also provide details of the history of your relationship and at least two statutory declarations from individuals with personal knowledge of your relationship supporting your claim that the relationship is genuine and continuing.
Note: The sponsor and the applicant who are common law or conjugal partners must provide historical evidence of their ongoing relationship. If they are in a relationship of two years or less and have no children together, the applicant will receive conditional permanent resident status, if the application is approved."
My interpretation of this is that you need only to provide a birth certificate IF it proves your relationship to the sponsor, for example if your sponsor is your parent or relative. The only think that proves family relationship between her and I is the marriage certificate...
We will send the marriage certificate and a copy of the passport of course. But do you think we really need to provide the birth certificate also?? It would delay the sending of the application, but would be better than being even more delayed buy a request of missing document from CIC.
Thanks a lot for your advise.
