Sponsorship refused by CPC-M. Please help.

I guess they expected you to put him down as your common-law partner. I mean, there's really no place where you can declare a conjugal partner on those forms so what other choice did you have? But then since you never lived together, that wouldn't be accurate. You couldn't declare a fiance either if they weren't your common-law partner yet.

Personally, I'd just send it all back to them to reapply, with a cover letter at the top explaining how you couldn't have declared your partner as a family member because the forms don't allow for it. No clue if it'd work, but it only takes a month or two for Mississauga to send a refusal and it's just $75.

Whatever you do, good luck! I hope you find a way to be together.

I found this very interesting though.

"The conjugal partner category applies only to the family class and only to a foreign national sponsored by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident living in Canada."

You may have a good case in appealing. You applied as FSW so there is really NO way you could have included her. I think the decision to try to sponsor her AFTER you landed makes a lot of sense now.

Edited by jamaisomal - 07 Dec 2009 at 8:09am

kyrie wrote: @Jamaisomal - Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! All I needed was someone to concur with me that a conjugal partner was not considered a "family member" for the IMM0008.

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can comment more, but on the appeal letter we received it states: If the Appeal Division finds that an applicant is not a member of the damily class , the Appeal Division will not have jurisdiction to consider the appeal.

It looks to me that you're currently snookered if they deemed your partner undeclared family class as well as if you try to say conjugal isn't family class.

Again, hope someone else has more concrete info to provide.

Edited by tgchi13 - 07 Dec 2009 at 8:55am