(6) Common-Law Marriage/Partner:
According to Wikipedia, “common-law marriage, also known as non-ceremonial marriage, sui iuris marriage, informal marriage, de facto marriage, or marriage by habit and repute, is a legal marriage despite non-compliance with the requirements for a statutory marriage, at least in the jurisdictions where marriage can still be contracted this way”. In Canada, while some provinces may extend to couples in marriage-like relationships many of the rights and responsibilities of a marriage, they are not legally considered married. The common-law partnership must show the evidence of cohabitation in a conjugal relationship. The sponsorship applications in all three routes i.e. spousal, common-law partner, or conjugal partner streams take around 12 months to process. The amount of time to process the application varies as per the complexity of the application and the circumstances of the couple rather than a stream of an application under which it is applied. Although it is a general concept that married spouses have to put less effort to show the genuineness of the relationship as compared to the common-law or conjugal partner applicants. It may be partially true as marriages may have certain advantages and obligations as well and being the de jure relationships easy to establish and prove but again genuineness of the relationship element will be the same as with other streams i.e. common-law or conjugal.
CONCLUSION
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