Dear lin123
Your address history is the place for giving information on where you officially lived for the last 10 years. This means the address at which you spent all your time and had your mail sent to. They do not want to know your address when you were on holiday. They want to know which towns you lived in so they can check your criminal record and check that it all lines up with the activities you say you were doing like studying or working. holidays do not matter for this.
You need to write all the addresses of you *homes* where you officially lived while you were studying, working or unemployed in your home country and in Canada. If you have lived in Canada for more than 10 years only write your Canadian addresses.
Do not put the addresses where you were staying for a holiday or visiting relatives unless you were there for more than 6 months-they do not want a list of hotels and campsites or addresses where you stayed for only 2 nights.
There is a separate section called "travel history" where you put the locations of the places you stayed at when you were visiting your family outside of Canada.
I hope this is helpful.
Have a question regarding this, In the address history section, it says "Do not leave any gaps" between addresses.
Let's say I have a student residence address "P" in Canada from Sep 2020- April 2021. Then I go to vacation in India for 4 months (Apr-Sep of 2021). Then I have another address in Canada "Q" from Sep 2021-April 2022.
Ideally I want to put the 4 month India vacation in the travel history, but to do this I would need to extend the residence contract of "P" till Sep 2021 even though it wasn't till Sep 2021 in order to not leave any gaps. I think this is okay to do or should I add the india vacation in the adress history?
