Status marital on CIC is not the SAME of Belgian one

[omayok]

I am preparing document for CI to sponsor my belgian lover. I am canadian living in Belgium.

On all CIC forms, we indicated our status marital beeing "Common-Law" since we are living together
since many years...

At the Belgian town hall we asked for document that certificate that we live together at the same address for a long time. But! on these Belgian documents, marital status is "single" since we never formalized our relationship with the state. What to do? The CIC will he return the case to this discrepancy?

THANK ! I need our help !
oma

 

[PMM]

Hi

I am preparing document for CI to sponsor my belgian lover. I am canadian living in Belgium.

On all CIC forms, we indicated our status marital beeing "Common-Law" since we are living together
since many years...

At the Belgian town hall we asked for document that certificate that we live together at the same address for a long time. But! on these Belgian documents, marital status is "single" since we never formalized our relationship with the state. What to do? The CIC will he return the case to this discrepancy?

THANK ! I need our help !
oma

No, you don't have to meet the Belgian definition, but the Canadian one. That you have been living in a marriage like relationship for at least one year. You need proof, such as joint bank accounts, joint lease, letters from friends relative, the statutory declaration of common-law.

 

[omayok]

thank !
SO I will suppose then CIC agent will not be surprise to see this "single" work on belgian papers
and will ignore it ...(I hope)

FOr the declaration of common-law, I do not need I think ...