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Funny Canadian visa question

Here's question 19 from the Sponsored Spouse/Partner Questionnaire (which I'm currently filling out):

19. Was there a honeymoon (a holiday or trip taken by you and your sponsor after the marriage)?
No
Yes If yes: Provide details. If insufficient space, use a separate sheet of paper. Attach photos, if any.

By CaryGrant on Oct 18, 2005, 19:19 in Friendly Talkzone.

utopiacowboy says on Oct 18, 2005, 19:23:

Damm, I'd like to be the bureaucrat who gets to rummage through these applications!

Disclaimer: any comment I make is inane and is not to be taken seriously, and is so patently ridiculous that no one should take it seriously, even as an insult.

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kernow62 says on Oct 19, 2005, 04:43:

Why is it a funny question?

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bob777 says on Oct 19, 2005, 07:11:

You should surprise them. . . You should surprise them by actually writing something that belongs in an article in a "men's" *cough* magazine, and put together a slide show of photos that will raise the temperature in the INS office. :)

Maybe they will process your visa faster, with an entertainment package attached ;)

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bob777 says on Oct 19, 2005, 07:30:

Or really surprise them... Or you could really surprise them by taking a page from the book of Elmo, and show what a Colombian honeymoon with a burra would be like? That should raise a few eyebrows when you submit your documents jajaja

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ronald1168 says on Oct 19, 2005, 08:30:

Canadians I think it is a very intelligent question of the Canadians.

There are some people in the world who get married just as a kind of transaction and just to enable the other party to obtain residence permits.

Here in the UK there used to be a market of illegal immigrants getting married with
UK citizens after paying a fee.

I think the Canadians ask for pictures of your Honeymoon to deal with that problem, to establish that the marriage is a genuine one.

I think it is a very practical way to do it

R. Donders
London
ronald at donders.co.uk

ronald@donders.co.uk

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Rubiazo says on Oct 19, 2005, 09:03:

Thats what they did at my interview. They asked a bunch of questions to establish that we were in fact living conjugally. If you're going to fake something like that, you need to meet up before the interview and plan out your 'apartment' that you live in together so that both of you give the same answers for everybody. Sometimes they separate the spouses too.

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