Immigration Form Guides
What each official form is for, who files it, the evidence its instructions ask for, and where chat history can support it — checked against the issuing agency’s own pages.
🇨🇦 Canada
- IMM 5532: Relationship Information and Sponsorship Evaluation — IMM 5532 is the IRCC form that a sponsor and the spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner they are sponsoring fill out for a Canadian sponsorship application. This guide summarises what each part asks, who signs where, and where chat history can support your Part C answers about how your relationship developed.
- IMM 5533: Document Checklist: Spouse (Including Dependent Children) — IMM 5533 is the IRCC document checklist for sponsoring a spouse, and any dependent children, for permanent residence in Canada. You tick the items that apply to your situation, include the documents it lists and upload the completed checklist with your online application. This guide summarises the checklist’s proof-of-relationship section and where chat history fits, including the 10-page limit on proof of contact for couples who do not live together.
- IMM 1344: Application to Sponsor, Sponsorship Agreement and Undertaking — IMM 1344 is the IRCC form a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Indian Act completes to apply to become a sponsor and to promise to support the person they sponsor. This guide summarises what the official form and guide say, and where chat history fits in a spouse, common-law or conjugal partner sponsorship: as proof of contact on the document checklist, not on IMM 1344 itself.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- FLR (M): Extend your stay in the UK as a partner or dependent child — FLR (M) is the Home Office application a partner already in the UK makes to extend their permission to stay as the partner of a British or Irish citizen, a settled person, or someone with refugee or humanitarian protection status. GOV.UK says you must now apply online. This guide summarises what the official pages ask for and where chat history fits next to the living-together evidence the Immigration Rules require.
- SET(M): Settle in the UK as the partner of a person, or parent of a child, who is in the UK and settled here — SET(M) is the Home Office online application to settle in the UK (indefinite leave to remain) as the partner of a British citizen or a person with indefinite leave to remain, once you have completed the qualifying time on your family visa. This guide summarises what GOV.UK, the Immigration Rules and Home Office caseworker guidance ask for, and where chat history can support the relationship tests at this stage: that your relationship is still subsisting and that you have lived together since your last visa, or had good reason to be apart.
🇺🇸 United States
- I-129F: Petition for Alien Fiancé(e) — Form I-129F is the USCIS petition a U.S. citizen files to bring a foreign fiancé(e) to the United States on a K-1 visa, or a foreign spouse on a K-3 visa. This guide summarises what the official instructions ask for and where chat history can support the two K-1 requirements: mutual intent to marry and an in-person meeting.
- I-130: Petition for Alien Relative — Form I-130 is the USCIS petition a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident files to establish their relationship to a foreign relative who wants to immigrate, including a spouse. This guide covers spouse petitions: what the official instructions ask for, including Form I-130A and evidence that the marriage is bona fide, and where chat history can support it.
- I-751: Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence — Form I-751 is the USCIS petition a conditional permanent resident files to remove the conditions on permanent residence obtained through marriage. This guide summarises what the official instructions ask for and where chat history can support the central question: whether the marriage was entered in good faith and not to get around U.S. immigration laws.
- I-485: Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status — Form I-485 is the USCIS application a person who is already in the United States files to apply for lawful permanent residence (a Green Card). This guide focuses on two marriage-based routes: a spouse of a U.S. citizen filing with or after Form I-130, and a K-1 fiancé(e) who married the petitioner within 90 days of admission. It summarises what the official instructions ask for and where chat history can support evidence of a bona fide marriage.
🇦🇺 Australia
- 888: Supporting statement in relation to a Partner or Prospective Marriage visa application — Form 888 is the Department of Home Affairs form a witness who knows you both can use to give a supporting statement for your Partner (subclass 820/801 or 309/100) or Prospective Marriage (subclass 300) visa application. This guide summarises what the form asks, what the visa pages say about witness statements, and why Form 888 is not a statutory declaration.
🇳🇿 New Zealand
- INZ 1178: Partnership Support Form for Residence — INZ 1178 is the form a New Zealand citizen or resident completes to support their partner’s application for a Partner of a New Zealander Resident Visa. It records the supporting partner’s details and eligibility and ends with a witnessed declaration of support. This guide summarises what the form asks for and where chat records fit in the relationship evidence that goes with the application.
Not legal advice. PartnerProof — document-formatting tool for immigration applications.