Request to add Spouse

[samym]

Hi all,

I am an PR applicant and I recently got married. I informed this to CIC and they requested to add her to my application along with my wife's applications and relationship questionnaire.

My wife had applied for visitor visa before we were married that is when we were engaged, but her visa was rejected stating that insufficient fund and purpose of visit.

The concern here is, she did not mention that she was coming to meet me in her visitor visa instead she just applied as a tourist to visit Toronto.

My question here is, In the spouse questionnaire for PR, should I mention that I know her and I was engaged to her before she applied for visitor visa as a tourist or instead I should mention that I know her after her visitor visa was rejected?

Please help.

 

[Ponga]

You're worrying over nothing.

The only thing that matters is that you add your spouse to your PR application. The minutia concerning her rejected visitor visa is not relevant.

Just be truthful about everything in the PR application!

 

[samym]

Hello Ponga, thank you very much for your response.

Since my wife who was my fiancee when she applied for visitor visa, she mentioned as single. So, I was concerned about the option common-law in the visitor visa application form. Is common-law and formal engagement same? Should she had mentioned as common-law or the relationship that she had with me when she applied for visitor visa as a tourist even though her fiancee(me) was in Canada?

 

[canadianwoman]

Common-law means (for Canadian immigration) that you have lived together for 12 continuous months. Being engaged and being common-law are completely different things.

I don't think that you were engaged when she applied for the TRV will matter.

 

[samym]

Hi canadianwoman, thank you for your response and appreciate your help here.