Folks, when I uploaded my Canada address and Photo on 6th January, there was no declaration button for declaring presence in Canada. I went ahead and provided Canada address and photo. Ever since the status was shown as 'In Review with IRCC'.
Today when I logged back onto the portal, it asked me to confirm the presence in Canada (by clicking on the checkbox'. It is correctly showing my address and also the displaying the photo which was uploaded. And now the status is 'In Review with IRCC'.
if any one of you who wasn't asked to declare earlier about CANADA presence (while providing the address and uploading the photograph to the portal), please try logging back to portal and confirm this step...