Hi All,
I NEED ADVICE!!! PLEASE..
After reading this tread,
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/c-6-citizenship-applications-frequently-asked-questions.522548/
I noticed that I made a mistake in question 11 - CIT0002E. I used my home address instead of my company.
Wait for them to ask for additional information (if they do not refuse my process) or send a clarification letter through the web form?
https://secure.cic.gc.ca/enquiries-renseignements/canada-case-cas-eng.aspx?_ga=2.135406904.884322739.1530229779-2116458598.1527745169
Thanks in advance.
If that is the only mistake you made, CONGRATULATIONS, you did a lot, lot better than most of us.
I cannot offer personal advice and thus will not advise you to submit an amendment to your application, or to not submit one.
BUT from my perspective, this ALONE, this one tidbit of information, is NOT something worth
shaking-the-tree about. A processing agent should readily recognize the field has been populated by your home address, and understand that for what it is. If there is nothing else in your application inviting concerns or questions or doubts, this little detail is NOT likely to cause a processing agent to so much as twitch or shrug let alone actually have a question, let alone be suspicious.
Yes, of course, be prepared to clarify when you are interviewed. Questions about where the applicant works are commonly asked in the interview, including questions similar to "where is that?"
If the applicant makes more and especially more significant mistakes than this, and needs to supplement or submit amendments to the application information, probably best to address them all in a single submission. Standing by itself, an erroneous address in a single field in item 11, particularly one that should be readily recognized for what it is (and thus clearly recognized to be a mistake, not a misrepresentation), hardly seems worth addressing.
Sure this makes you one of those who are causing the process to go slowly for everyone. But you are hardly alone. You are probably well in the majority. All of us make mistakes. Most of us made or will make a mistake in a citizenship application. And sure, that has an impact, a cost so to say. It undoubtedly means processing agents will need to spend a little more time assessing the information, comparing details to other information in the application or to information from other sources. We cannot help it. We are human. We make mistakes. And IRCC makes a concerted effort to not let little mistakes, or even some bigger ones, derail the process. IRCC makes a concerted effort to deal with such errors. And IRCC appears to be doing a rather remarkable job, since it is on track to successfully process as many as TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND citizenship applications this year.
In the latter regard, my sense is that a webform submission just for this one tiny piece of information would likely consume significantly more personnel time than it is worth, by quite a lot actually. So if you are considerate of other applicants, and want to help IRCC process their applications more quickly, that probably weighs against trying to "correct" this by submitting a webform revision.
EDIT to ADD: these observations should not be construed to discourage anyone from making a correction for more significant mistakes, and particularly as to any mistake which is more directly connected to a qualifying element.
