1. This document is a questionnaire for spouses or common-law partners applying for permanent residence in Canada. It contains questions about how the applicant met their sponsor, their relationship history, living arrangements, children, and past marriages or relationships of both the applicant and sponsor. 2. Applicants must provide complete and precise responses to questions about meeting their sponsor, outings and trips together, living arrangements, if the relationship is known to family and friends, and evidence of a common-law relationship if applicable. 3. The document requests details about formal ceremonies to recognize the relationship, pregnancies, and past marriages or relationships from both the applicant and sponsor including dates, locations, and names of previous partners.

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SPOUSE/COMMON-LAW QUESTIONNAIRE
For use in joint kit for Spouses or common-law partners in Canada
This document must be completed and included with your
application for permanent residence in Canada if you are being
sponsored by your spouse or common-law partner. Provide a
complete and precise response to each question. Failure to provide
this information could result in a refusal of your application. If more
space is needed, include additional pages.
On each additional page, you must indicate the title of this form
and specify the number or letter of the question you are
answering. Also ensure that your name is included on each
additional page. 7. / .
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1. When was the first time you met your sponsor in person? 7. Were there formal ceremonies to recognize/celebrate your
Day Month Year
relationship, e.g., engagement ceremony, traditional/customary
Date marriage ceremony, commitment ceremony, partnership ceremony,
reception, etc?
,
Where? No Explain on a separate sheet of paper.
Describe the circumstances of your first meeting. Yes For each ceremony attach a photograph and provide, on a
separate sheet of paper, the date, location, number of
attendees and indicate who performed the ceremony.
Did the following persons attend the ceremony?
a) Your parents? a)
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper. ,
Did anyone introduce you to your sponsor? Yes
No
b) Your sponsor's parents? b)
Yes Who introduced you?
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper. ,
Yes
2. 你和擔保人曾是否⼀一起出外或旅遊
2. Did you and your sponsor go on outings and/or trips together? 8.
8. Are you or your sponsor pregnant?
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper.
No
Yes Describe the types of outings/trips on a separate sheet of ,
paper and attach photos, if any. Yes Attach a letter from the attending physician indicating the
3. anticipated date of birth.
3. Are you currently living with your sponsor?
, , 9.a)
9. a) Were you ever previously married or in a common-law relationship?
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper.
If you are living with someone other than your sponsor, No , ; ,
include their name and their relationship to you in your
explanation. Yes Provide the following details about your previous spouse
Yes Period of cohabitation. or common-law partner. If you have been involved in
more than one relationship, use a seperate sheet of
Day Month Year Day Month Year paper to provide details.
From To present
4. Family name
4. Is your relationship known to your close friends and family?
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper. Given name(s)
,
Yes On a separate sheet of paper, give their names,
relationship to you and the dates your sponsor met them.
5. .
5. Are you in a common-law relationship, i.e. have you and your
sponsor lived together in a conjugal relationship for a period of at Day Month Year
Date of birth
least one year? 回答yes,就要提出相關證據文件,另外說明
No
見Q12 Address
Yes Provide written and documentary evidence of your No. and street
relationship, e.g., joint insurance policies, wills, anything
naming your partner as beneficiary, documents showing Town/City
travel together, identity documents showing same address,
documents showing joint ownership of possessions, joint
mortgage/loan, joint lease/rental agreement, joint bank Country
accounts/statements, etc.
6. , a) b), 7
6. If you are married, answer a) and b) below. If not, proceed to Length of Day Month Year Day Month Year
question 7. relationship To
a) Was your marriage arranged? a)
Day Month Year
No Date of divorce/ separation/death
Yes On a separate sheet of paper, describe how the
/ /
marriage was arranged. , Divorce papers/separation papers/death certificate attached? / /
b) Was there a honeymoon? b) Yes
No
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper. ,
Yes
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9.b) ,
9. b) Were there any children from this marriage or common-law 11. Has your sponsor ever submitted a sponsorship application for
another person?
relationship?
. 2 (Verify with your sponsor before answering this question)
No
,
Give the following details on each child. If there is No
Yes
more than one child, attach a separate sheet of paper.
Yes Give details below. 給予細節
Family name
Family name
Given name(s)
Given name(s)
Male OR Female
Day Month Year
Date of birth
Day Month Year
Date of birth
Relationship to
Indicate where he or she currently lives sponsor
Address
No. and street 12. On a separate sheet of paper, provide any additional details of your
current relationship that you believe would help to prove your
Town/City relationship is genuine and continuing.
12. ,
Country
.
Custody agreement attached (if applicable)
Yes
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper.
10.
10. Was your sponsor ever previously married or in a common-law
relationship?
No Applicant's
Yes Provide the following details below: signature
a)
a) Indicate the number of times your sponsor was in: Day Month Year
Date
a previous b)
marriage . , ;
a previous ,
common-law relationship
b) Give the following details for each of your sponsor's previous This section must be fully completed if an interpreter assisted you in the
spouses or common-law partners. If your sponsor has been preparation of this form.
involved in more than one relationship, use a separate sheet of
paper to provide details. INTERPRETER DECLARATION
Family name I,
solemnly declare that I have faithfully and accurately interpreted in
Given name(s)
the language
Day Month Year
the content of this application and any related forms to the persons
Date of birth concerned.
Address I have been informed by the person concerned, and I do verily believe, that
No. and street he/she completely understands the nature and effect of these forms, and I
make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true and
Town/City knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if make under oath.
Country
Length of Day Month Year Day Month Year
relationship To
Day Month Year
Date of divorce/separation/death Interpreter's
/ / signature
Divorce papers/death certificate attached? / /
Yes Day Month Year
Date
No Explain on a separate sheet of paper. ,
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