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sdy

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Hello folks,

Please help me in addressing the below question.

Q13 Have you ever held immigration or citizenship status in any country other than Canada, including your country of birth?

I have studied in Australia. I have put myself as student in the status column. However i am confused with Date obtained/effective date, and end date columns.

The visa was issued in April 2008, the visa was valid till March 2010.

I went for my studies in August 2008, and I left the country in December 2009.

What will be my effective and end dates in those columns?

Thanks
 
I don't know the correct answer to your questions, but you can always answer it one way and then add a sheet of paper with the question number on it and write a brief and to the point explanation. I did that in my employment history as I'd had some parental leave that ran concurrent to my full time job I was on leave from and I wanted to explain the situation so there was no confusion.
It must have been good enough as they didn't even ask about it at the interview.
 
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Study visa is not immigration or citizenship . I don’t think you need to list this at all, is my opinion.

Star members: your views please
 
Study visa is not immigration or citizenship . I don’t think you need to list this at all, is my opinion.

Star members: your views please
They have "student"/"worker" in the choices available. This makes it likely that you should state those as well.
I personally put my J-1 student exchange visa in the US for 4 months in this. Does not hurt in any way, and they will come across it while doing background checks on me.