I have added some more context:
If a person gets PR/Landed on say 1-SEPT 2015 and applies for Citizenship in 1-JAN 2019 then the eligibility period would be 1-JAN-2014 to 1-JAN-2019. In this case:
- Are you certain about the addresses that you stayed before becoming PR needs to be included too? In that case even the travel to Canada for landing needs to be covered?
- This means that even a Police Clearance certificate from your home country would be needed since one may have been more than 183 days out of Canada before doing the first landing? Are we sure about this?
- Also in this case do we need to answer YES for 9 (c) since it says did you live outside of Canada during the eligibility period? And if its a YES then we need to fill CIT 0177 too?
- Does the job status also needs to be reflective of this? Meaning job status between 1-JAN-2014 and 30-AUG-2015 at Home country?
My Eligibility period is almost the same as yours and the residency scenario also same.
1. You have to mention all the address within the eligibility period. When you become PR is irrelevant
2. YES, you need to provide a police certificate if you stayed outside of Canada for 183 days (Even if it is before you become PR)
(This is required because, once you get you Canada onetime VISA, you still have one year to enter Canada and become PR, So your old police certificate will not cover that one year. and IRCC needs to check your record during that time. That's the reason they put 4 years as eligibility period)
3. There is a mistake in the application form. The question should be " did you stayed outside Canada for more than 183 days as "crown servant"?. Since the question is not correct. you still need to answer to that question "YES" and add an explanation letter with CIT 0177 form (Filled with N/A) saying that it's not applicable to me (if you are really not a crown servant)
4. Yes.