Question 13 Citizenship application

[Hady]

Hello Everybody

I will be submitting my citizenship paper application in the coming couple of days and I would highly appreciate your advice about question 13.
I have seen couple of opinions about whether to include tourists visas/visits or not. I currently have citizenship status at my country of birth and I also had US green card that I surrendered in 2017; I will include both.
However, I had more than 30 tourist visas/visits to different countries during my life and would like to know if I should include those as well. In case I should, I visited UAE more than 10 times for short visits, should I include each individual visit?

Many thanks for your valuable advice
Hady

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Hello Everybody

I will be submitting my citizenship paper application in the coming couple of days and I would highly appreciate your advice about question 13.
I have seen couple of opinions about whether to include tourists visas/visits or not. I currently have citizenship status at my country of birth and I also had US green card that I surrendered in 2017; I will include both.
However, I had more than 30 tourist visas/visits to different countries during my life and would like to know if I should include those as well. In case I should, I visited UAE more than 10 times for short visits, should I include each individual visit?

Many thanks for your valuable advice
Hady

@abbas.pasha recently was in this situation. I request @abbas.pasha to assist.

Yes, you'll have to declare all the tourist visas as well in Q13.

 

[abbas.pasha]

Surely @rajkamalmohanram will send a pvt msg to Hady with the details on how I tackled the Q13 (all thx to your support Raj)...

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Surely @rajkamalmohanram will send a pvt msg to Hady with the details on how I tackled the Q13 (all thx to your support Raj)...

Thank you for the assistance, I appreciate it.

 

[Hadysaade]

Thank you Abbas and Raj for the quick advice.
Just a side note, If a separate sheet is included, the info of this sheet will not be captured with the application barcodes info

thanks again

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Thank you Abbas and Raj for the quick advice.
Just a side note, If a separate sheet is included, the info of this sheet will not be captured with the application barcodes info

thanks again

Apart from the 2 rows that are already on the sheet for Q13, you can only add 15 more rows. You can't add anything further anyway from what I'm seeing on the application form.

 

[indigonation5]

Surely @rajkamalmohanram will send a pvt msg to Hady with the details on how I tackled the Q13 (all thx to your support Raj)...

@abbas.pasha can you send me as well please - thank you

 

[abbas.pasha]

@abbas.pasha can you send me as well please - thank you

Sent

 

[wink]

Surely @rajkamalmohanram will send a pvt msg to Hady with the details on how I tackled the Q13 (all thx to your support Raj)...

Why private?

 

[Hadysaade]

It had some personal info.
Bottom line, it was recommended to list all status including tourist/visitor visas for all my life by adding a letter of explanation and excel sheet if space on the application is not enough.
As a second opinion, would someone of the experts also comments please because Q13 is very unclear with contradictions between the drop down menu and examples given in the question itself?

thanks

 

[The Mancunian]

Hey Guys!
I have confusion about the same question in terms of visitor statuses.
Do you include the visitor statuses with "Date obtained/Effective date" as start date of the visa or the date when you actually entered the country?
Also "End Date" as expiry date of the visa or date you left the country?

Another variable here is single entry and multiple entry visas.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

[upon]

Why would you include Visitor visa at all?
it is not logical. They are asking about immigration statuses.
Well, if you travel to any country even without visa upon entry you are given immigration status “tourist” so visa is completely irrelevant to this matter.
I believe only student worker pr etc needs to be mentioned. Otherwise you need to include every trip you took in your life to this form(because you are given “visitor” status every time entering different country)

 

[softwaretesting]

I had originally not sent details of visitor visas, however sent it later as webform. Reason being new form / online application has dropdown value as Visitor Visa.

 

[upon]

I had originally not sent details of visitor visas, however sent it later as webform. Reason being new form / online application has dropdown value as Visitor Visa.

There is no Visitor Visa drop down but Visitor status.
Status is beyond visa. You get status even when you enter any country without visa.

So we need to enter every country visited during lifetime in Q13? Seems unlikely.

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Why would you include Visitor visa at all?
it is not logical. They are asking about immigration statuses.
Well, if you travel to any country even without visa upon entry you are given immigration status “tourist” so visa is completely irrelevant to this matter.
I believe only student worker pr etc needs to be mentioned. Otherwise you need to include every trip you took in your life to this form(because you are given “visitor” status every time entering different country)

I had originally not sent details of visitor visas, however sent it later as webform. Reason being new form / online application has dropdown value as Visitor Visa.

There is no Visitor Visa drop down but Visitor status.
Status is beyond visa. You get status even when you enter any country without visa.

So we need to enter every country visited during lifetime in Q13? Seems unlikely.

There is a "Visitor" dropdown in the application form now for Q13. It wasn't there before October 2020. I would recommend including visitor statuses in there because the application form has an explicit option called "Visitor".