Comments on: Immigration Applications can Succeed or Fail on Legal Technicalities http://www.visaplace.com/blog-immigration-law/immigration-tidbits-from-lawyer-michael-niren/immigration-applications-can-succeed-or-fail-on-legal-technicalities/ Our Immigration Law Firm can handle ALL Canadian & USA Immigration visa applications for people entering Canada or US. Serving clients worldwide. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:36:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Michael Niren http://www.visaplace.com/blog-immigration-law/immigration-tidbits-from-lawyer-michael-niren/immigration-applications-can-succeed-or-fail-on-legal-technicalities/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Michael Niren Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:57:46 +0000 http://www.visaplace.com/blog-immigration-law/immigration-tidbits-from-lawyer-michael-niren/immigration-applications-can-succeed-or-fail-on-legal-technicalities/#comment-821 Hi John If you are in a conjugal relationship for one year or longer, you may be able to sponsor her without the need to live together for one year as a common law couple. Either way, you could sponsor her despite the fact that she is still married. I am not clear whether there is a misrepresentation here regarding her tourist visa. I would need more information. Hi John
If you are in a conjugal relationship for one year or longer, you may be able to sponsor her without the need to live together for one year as a common law couple. Either way, you could sponsor her despite the fact that she is still married. I am not clear whether there is a misrepresentation here regarding her tourist visa. I would need more information.

]]> By: John http://www.visaplace.com/blog-immigration-law/immigration-tidbits-from-lawyer-michael-niren/immigration-applications-can-succeed-or-fail-on-legal-technicalities/comment-page-1/#comment-820 John Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:10:59 +0000 http://www.visaplace.com/blog-immigration-law/immigration-tidbits-from-lawyer-michael-niren/immigration-applications-can-succeed-or-fail-on-legal-technicalities/#comment-820 I want to sponsor my common law spouse from the Philippines to Canada and I am looking for someone to assist me with the process but before I begin I need the following question answered. We have been living in a conjugal relationship since August 2007. I have been to Canada three times since then. She is legally married in the Philippines but not legally separated or annulled. There is no divorce in the Philippines. She has been living apart from her husband for 3 years. In December 07 she applied for a tourist visa to Canada and was denied. On the application she checked off that she was married. The options were: Annulled Common Law Divorced Legally separated Married Never married As she is married and her interpretation of Common Law was living together continuously for over a year she checked off Married. She also put both her and her ex husband's address under both names. We are now planning to stay together for 12 months uninterrupted and apply as common law spouses. We are concerned they will review her application for tourist visa and deny her PR application saying she lied and said she was married when she was actually living with me. Any ideas about this or experience? Need to clear this up before we go ahead Regards, I want to sponsor my common law spouse from the Philippines to Canada and I am looking for someone to assist me with the process but before I begin I need the following question answered.

We have been living in a conjugal relationship since August 2007. I have been to Canada three times since then.
She is legally married in the Philippines but not legally separated or annulled. There is no divorce in the Philippines. She has been living apart from her husband for 3 years.

In December 07 she applied for a tourist visa to Canada and was denied. On the application she checked off that she was married.
The options were:
Annulled
Common Law
Divorced
Legally separated
Married
Never married

As she is married and her interpretation of Common Law was living together continuously for over a year she checked off Married. She also put both her and her ex husband’s address under both names.

We are now planning to stay together for 12 months uninterrupted and apply as common law spouses.

We are concerned they will review her application for tourist visa and deny her PR application saying she lied and said she was married when she was actually living with me.

Any ideas about this or experience?

Need to clear this up before we go ahead

Regards,

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