I called cic call centre today and they said every single country you traveled to “ even if you were visitor” you need to provide entry/exisit record
At the risk of overreaching a bit, but a minimal risk, I am confident that there is NO NEED to submit exit/entry records from countries an individual has only briefly visited, countries in which the individual has never actually lived or had status to formally reside in.
Focus on submitting what you can readily obtain.
Obviously I have no authority or standing to contradict an IRCC call centre agent, but it is easy to put this into context. Call centre agents predominantly work off FAQ scripts. They are typically no more an expert than any customer service call centre representative generally. BUT in the IRCC context, it is important for them to avoid giving callers answers that are insufficient or inaccurate, answers that could cause the caller to do something which might have a negative impact.
Thus: First, they respond off the script. Odds are high there are no more than superficial PPQ - QAE related script responses (if any). Secondly, they will err on the side of inclusion in response to a question about what someone needs to provide. Including more than asked has a lot, lot less risk than failing to submit what is asked, let alone what is required.
Third, in this context in particular, my guess is the call centre agent does NOT have a CIT 0205 "Appendix - Required Documents" form in front of them. So the agent is probably responding based more on the agent's understanding of the way the caller frames the question than on what is actually asked in the request sent to the applicant.
In other words, the agent probably is not looking at the precise language in the request, which refers to countries of "
RESIDENCE" rather than any or every country ever transited.
Then of course there is what makes sense. Demanding an applicant provide exit/entry records from every country ever transited would make NO practical sense.
And then there is this:
If you cannot acquire it you can provide a letter than explains why you are unable to acquire those records. They are aware that not all countries provide such information.
Precisely.
FOCUS ON PROVIDING a substantive response to the request but NO NEED to get too bogged down in minutia.
If this really is a quality assurance exercise, as IRCC purports it is, a relatively substantial performance response should
EASILY suffice. Only if the applicant's response raises concerns, suggests cause for questions, should it raise any issues for the particular applicant. Otherwise, the information submitted (again, assuming it really is a quality assurance exercise) should be examined more in the vein of creating a database of information facilitating an evaluation about how well the application process actually works.
BUT SURE, no need to second-guess much, this "quality assurance exercise" is quite likely as much about identifying questionable applicants as it is in mining data to improve the process. So those "randomly selected" should be diligent and make a concerted effort to reasonably respond, to cover the bases one might say. Emphasis on "reasonably."
In the meantime, see the topic titled: "RQ versus Physical Presence Questionnaires, including CIT 0205" for further discussion.
