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 sshb wrote:

hi JSKMR and mrsJDL  my case was refused for the common reason"Marriage is not genuine"  
actually my wedding pictures were very simple, so ISB send my husband a refusal letter.  now i file the appeal and lets see what happens next..

tell me about yours 

There is no final decision yet on my case. I am still praying for a positive response from the IO this month. But i am gathering informations now just in case it will not be a good news (hope not!) 

My case is about an undeclared family member. I am sponsoring my husband as spouse but the IO concluded that we were in a common law relationship before i landed in Canada and i failed to declare him. We got married AFTER i became a PR, so i landed as single. But in the sponsorship application form, we declared that we lived together when we were in another country as foreign workers. I was not denying it, but it doesn't also mean that we were having a common law relationship. Aside from living together, we never presented anything like joint accounts or bills or properties because we never had any of those. The house where we used to live in was actually a foreign worker complex where 8 of us were living in 1 floor. All questions about former spouses or common law or conjugal partners, we answered NO. 

It was really a big mistake for us to declare cohabitation without being fully aware of its meaning. 

We received a procedural fairness letter asking for our explanation why I did not declare my husband as a common law partner. LOL! (i had to laugh at that one!) I answered in full details and all honesty. But at the end of the day, it will still depend on the IO if he is having a bad day or a good day. I have read a similar case us mine way back in 2006 and they were refused. But the IO couldn't provide any evidence why he/she believed that the parties were in a common law relationship. The IO just said they were adults so they were consenting parties. By the time of appeal, the judge conceded the case coz of lack of evidence from the part of IO. It was sad because it took them 2 yrs to get the visa just because of the incompetency of the IO who handled their application. And one similar case i have read just recently, after they replied in the procedural fairness letter from the IO, they were granted the visa. 

Good luck to each and everyone of us. I am praying for everyone here. I believe in the power of prayers. I told my husband we are all like the story of David and Goliath, and God as our weapon, we can all win this battle.    