Hi Everyone,
I have a few questions about these histories that I need to fill out to accept the ITA. Could you please answer them if you have any helpful information?
1) Personal history
- I have about 1.5-2 years of cumulative unemployed periods between my home country and Canada in the past 10 years. I was mainly self-learning, travelling, sight-seeing, volunteering, just hanging out with friends and stuff. Should I include a letter of explanation for this? I was assuming that IRCC might want to see what I was up to in more detail since it's a lot, and I was wondering if it's acceptable to include a letter of explanation before they even ask for it?
2) Travel History
- My current country of residence is Canada. I think it has been Canada since Feb 2014 because that's when I first came here, and I stayed longer than 6 months, and went back to my country of origin (South Korea) only periodically and less than 4 months at a time. Only the first time back home was for about 4 months, and the subsequent visits were shorter than 3 weeks, every other year-ish. So, my questions is - Can I exclude Canada and South Korea from my travel history? I've been searching to find a definite answer to this, and I haven't been successful. Can anyone clarify this for me? If I were to follow the instruction to the letter. I would be leaving these out. But there are so many conflicted opinions on this that I got confused as well lol. "Provide details of any trips outside his/her country of origin or of residence in the last ten years."
3) Address History
- Can one leave out any short-term stays for this? For example, if the unit you were moving in in 5 days was not available, so you were staying at Airbnb, hotel or whatever short-term accommodation for a week or two. Can this be left out of the address history?
Thank you!!
I have a few questions about these histories that I need to fill out to accept the ITA. Could you please answer them if you have any helpful information?
1) Personal history
- I have about 1.5-2 years of cumulative unemployed periods between my home country and Canada in the past 10 years. I was mainly self-learning, travelling, sight-seeing, volunteering, just hanging out with friends and stuff. Should I include a letter of explanation for this? I was assuming that IRCC might want to see what I was up to in more detail since it's a lot, and I was wondering if it's acceptable to include a letter of explanation before they even ask for it?
2) Travel History
- My current country of residence is Canada. I think it has been Canada since Feb 2014 because that's when I first came here, and I stayed longer than 6 months, and went back to my country of origin (South Korea) only periodically and less than 4 months at a time. Only the first time back home was for about 4 months, and the subsequent visits were shorter than 3 weeks, every other year-ish. So, my questions is - Can I exclude Canada and South Korea from my travel history? I've been searching to find a definite answer to this, and I haven't been successful. Can anyone clarify this for me? If I were to follow the instruction to the letter. I would be leaving these out. But there are so many conflicted opinions on this that I got confused as well lol. "Provide details of any trips outside his/her country of origin or of residence in the last ten years."
3) Address History
- Can one leave out any short-term stays for this? For example, if the unit you were moving in in 5 days was not available, so you were staying at Airbnb, hotel or whatever short-term accommodation for a week or two. Can this be left out of the address history?
Thank you!!
