Hi, so my spouse's father was no contact for more than 15 years. He hasn't lived with them for almost 25 years now. She and her mother didn't have any knowledge of his activities. This information was mentioned in her work permit application, with LOE and pics over the years, including our marriage pics where certain indian rituals are performed by parents are done by her uncle and Aunt, ration card with only her mother and her. We put his address and job were unknown. We recently (March 2025)learned just by chance, through some relatives/acquaintances, that he was deceased in August 2024. After making efforts to contact his family, we learned that he had two more children with another woman, and he was not divorced from my mother-in-law or anything. We plan to include this in the PR application. Will this be taken as misrepresentation as to why we didn't mention in the previous application? We genuinely didn't know, but how could we prove that? she dint try to contact the halfsiblings or nor will she in the future
will this be taken as Misrespresentation?
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No issue. The father’s lack of contact for a long period time was disclosed in previous application. Additional proof was that he was not present for rituals that were done by uncle and aunt. Would include an explanation that you recently relocated him and he has other children that you were unaware of and provide as much information as possible about them.
Thank you. I wanted to ask we should submit webform now and inform IRCC or wait until we make PR application. What is required of me in this situation?
I don't understand in what context / to what document or application you would submit a webform now. If it's with respect to the previous work permit application - don't bother. They don't care that much about this, and the explanation is only relevant in context of a new application.
Ok. I think you can relax about this - it turns out he's deceased, and they are only half or step-siblings of your spouse, she's not attempting to sponsor either him or those siblings, they've no connection to Canada, etc.
If at some point she wanted to sponsor her mother, she might need documents about his death. But that is years away and not clear what programs for sponsoring parents will exist down the road.
Suffice to say anyway that it may be useful for her mother to have proof of death of her (former) spouse for lots of reasons. In most countries the spouse (esp if never divorced) would have a right to get a copy of the death certificate from the civil register or equivalent.
Thank you for ur time. I posted the same in the reddit. some people say its misrepresentation. We got so scared . He died in 2024 august and we got to know basically because his brother felt bad for my wife and spread word through acquaintances. The news reached us a week ago and when we contacted her uncle we came to know all of these. the oldest one is apparently 20 years. (my wife is 33 and hasnt lived in the same city as him since she was 5) She has had absolutely no contact with him for 15+ years and before that he made a few visits to see her once in a couple of years for a few hours. This was all clear in the application for work permit. He might have hid the news of the children at that time may be because he was scared of legal repercussions from her mom's family. My wife's uncle is empathetic and even agreed to give the necessary information for the application likes names dob and address. There is no lie from our side . Just worried if IRCC will see it that way
IMO you are overthinking this. There's no misrepresentation.
Just include an LOE confirming you were estraged 15+ year and that you found out he has passed away, etc. I don't think there's anything to be worried about here.
Thank you. Yea will add her half siblings details this time and explain all these. He recently passed away in 2024. The work permi was done in 2022; the only information we missed was her half siblings as we dint know their existence at that time
Yeah - I think that's very easily explained by the estrangement which was mentioned in the previous application.
do u have this info? like does her mother need his death certificate if we apply supervisa or just the date?