Hi
On my spouse/sponsor app. it ask what my spouse residential address & mailing address......I put down his U.S. address for Resident.........and my Canadian address for mailing.
On his application for applicant # 5490 it asks if he is living with his spouse what do I put.......he is here in Canada with me and will apply for an extension but isn't this rather weird if I already put down his resdential address as being in the states.....I find it rather contradicting......or am I reading this wrong. Is it ok that he is living with me in Canada right now. He is here legally because his 6 months isn't up yet. ????
Thanks Bunny
No, he's not living with you - he's visiting Canada right now. He could only be considered "living with you" if he had been granted at least one years' temporary status in Canada on entry . . . and then you'd be able to use the Canadian address as his residential address.
Ditto Robsluv.
This can be a bit confusing. I had much difficulty convincing my wife we should say we were not living together even though I was staying with her indefinitely at the time. At the time, to my wife (and in the app when she finally agreed to go along with me) I insisted that I was living at [my states' address] and I was just visiting here, waiting for the outcome of the PR application. She was not really convinced but she accepted my way of doing it.
What constitutes "living" for purposes of where one is "living" is one of those language bitten conundrums; in the U.S. they more often (but not always) refer to where one "resides." Where one "lives" is more fact based than the more legal where one "resides" (roughly: one being where you usually lay your head at night, the other the address on your drivers' license and where your bills are sent; sort of).
Practically I do not think it really makes that big of difference. They read through the tangle and figure things out, I am confident. They discern what people mean. I do think it is better to be precise and follow the form in terms the way they intend them, but in response to these questions I doubt answers either way would throw the application off. Of course if they otherwise had concerns or doubts about the relationship, or had other issues and were in nitpicking mode, it could be problematic, something they grab as an inconsistency, but for the run-of-the-mill everything is obviously on the up-n-up application, I doubt it matters much.
Nonetheless, this was one of those questions for which we included some elaboration on a supplemental page, clarifying what our housing arrangements were pending the outcome of the application.