I've been able to obtain some phone records from my old address (I moved almost 2 years ago to a new province.) I'm getting April and May 2007(start of realtionship) and July,August 2008. I cannot get my records from here as I am on a flat rate fee and they don't track calls. My husband is trying to get his cell records but the phone was in his fathers name (deceased over 3 years ago) and no one in the family ever changed it just kept the same phone plan. Therefore chances of him getting the records are slim to none. Is my best bet to just explain this to CIC?
If you cannot get any information then a good explination is better than none, just make sure you have other evidence of the relationship
Just explain the situation. We had almost no phone records. During the early part of our relationship, we used phone cards, and later I was on an unlimited long distance plan, but it didn't itemize the calls. We explained that, and submitted some of my phone bills showing the long distance plan, but that's all we had in that way. We did provide lots of other proof of our relationship.
Sounds like you have been in a relationship for a sustained period of time. You probably have plenty of other evidence to support the genuineness of your relationship. We submitted no documentation of phone calls whatsoever, none, and made only a brief explanation: prepaid cards used when separated in more recent period, no records saved from earlier period. Of course it depends on the totality of your story and how well your story is supported by what evidence you do have. I'm betting that given the length of the relationship you have plenty.
Same here - we submitted no phone records at all, no explanations.
We did though have plenty of other evidence (airline itineraries, hotel reservations, samples of chat records going back 6 years before we moved in together, emails for same) and we'd been living together 2.5 yrs when we applied.
dpenabill Wrote:Sounds like you have been in a relationship for a sustained period of time. You probably have plenty of other evidence to support the genuineness of your relationship. We submitted no documentation of phone calls whatsoever, none, and made only a brief explanation: prepaid cards used when separated in more recent period, no records saved from earlier period. Of course it depends on the totality of your story and how well your story is supported by what evidence you do have. I'm betting that given the length of the relationship you have plenty.