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Hi. I'd appreciate it if somebody would help me out. I have been in a relationship with my fiancee for 8 years now and have declared him as partner in my eoi but we havent been living together like in a live-in kind of thing. We were together for 6 years in my home country but i have been here in new zealand since 2012. Is it possible that my residency application as principal applicant (ITA stage)will be declined if i cant prove to INZ we live together in one roof? 😕
have you included your fiancee in your residency application?
Yeah i happen to include him. Shouldnt have done so i guess.
it would not effect on your residency application if you are a main applicant. but it could effect on your fiancée application. because to show the genuine partisanship we have to produce lots of supporting documents like tenancy agreement under both names,any bill on both names, joint accounts etc.
Yeah i realized that. Im quite worried the officer might think im providing false or misleading information since i made a mistake in the application or if i cant provide proof that we "live together" should they ask for more proof though.
Can anyone else shed light on this matter? Thanks.
I can't see that there is anything misleading or fraudulent about what you have done. You had a live-in relationship, which is only interrupted because you needed to move for your work.
Do you have evidence that you lived together for all that time in your home country? And can you show that you have kept in touch since you moved to NZ for work, e.g. phone records, emails, visits to one another? Notice F2.20.15 b. http://www.immigration.govt.nz/opsmanual/30880.htm
Depending on how much evidence you can provide, they may or may not grant your fiance a residence visa along with yours. But I think you definitely did the right thing in declaring him on your application.
Thanks for your reply.
Im quite worried that i declared him as a partner but we never have been living together in one roof but we are together just in a relationship like boyfriend and girlfriend. All i have are proofs since 2009 though by the screenshots we take from time to time when we communicate on Skype or FaceTime, letters from family and friends, some money transfer transactions through western union.
Thanks for your reply.
No we are not in a live-in relationship back in my home country at all. Im quite worried that i declared him as a partner but we never have been living together in one roof but we are together just in a relationship like boyfriend and girlfriend. All i have are proofs since 2009 though by the screenshots we take from time to time when we communicate on Skype or FaceTime, letters from family and friends, some money transfer transactions through western union.
Then maybe the best thing would be to write to INZ and say that you have only now been made aware that as you haven't lived together with your fiance, he doesn't meet the requirements for partnership, so you will have to remove him from your application. If you voluntarily give this information yourself, nobody can think you made a fraudulent application. There are many people - we've seen them on the forum here - who misunderstand the INZ definition of partnership, as it's different from in their home culture, so you would definitely not be the first to have to admit this problem. And you would not be blocking anything for your fiance. He definitely would have no chance of getting Residence along with you on this present application. But the fact that you have given his details as your fiance now means that any future application he might make, if later on he spends some time living with you and you sponsor him for a partner-sponsored work visa, has a better chance - his relationship with you will be on official record.
I see. So, have there been cases wherein some applicants were able to successfully remove somebody from their application without being categorized by INZ as providing false and misleading information? Im really concerned about that one. Im too paranoid. Haha!
Oh, yes, such cases happen. No need to be paranoid!
Anyway - think 'damage limitation' from where you are at the moment. You've put in an application including a partner. That, for INZ, is someone you live with. But you don't have someone you live with. What would you do when INZ ask for evidence of partnership, bearing in mind that partnership visas are the ones most often attempted by fraudsters paying somebody to lie for them, so INZ investigates them very carefully? You would HAVE TO state at that point that your partner isn't a partner in their sense of the word, so actually, they can remove him from your application. I think that would look a whole lot more suspicious than to state without delay that you realize you've made a mistake.
Okay. Thanks so much for your insight on this JandM. I really appreciate it. I was so worried an did not know what to do. Haha. Comforting to know that i could still remove him from my application. I hope though it wont deduct any points since i am not claiming any points for him.
Your not alone as I miss my partner but INZ says no.Quote:
Originally Posted by wanderluster
Aww sorry to hear that. What was your case though? If u dont mind. :)
As you haven't claimed any points for him, your total won't be affected at all.Quote:
I hope though it wont deduct any points since i am not claiming any points for him.
As to missing your non-live-in partners, not being able to add them to your SMC applications doesn't stop you sponsoring them at a later date. They can apply for the partner-sponsored work visa http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migra...milystream.htm, any time in the future when you have arranged to live together for 2 - 3 months and collected the evidence. That visa then gives them the right to work in NZ and continue to live with you, to build up to the 12 months required to get partner-sponsored Residence.
That's good. Yeah i already emailed inz and tey have replied and said to withdraw my partner in the application and state it in the amendment form. I was just wondering though because in section a, there was a question about the status pf the relationship and i put in defacto. Did i filled that in correctly? Do engaged couple fall into that category?