Hi, I have been in Canada with a work permit since Aug 2017 and currently processing PR through express entry. During my first month here, I lived in an AirBnB home before finding my permanent address.
How can I process the information without any gaps when my first address was someone else's private home?
Also, for a period of 4 months (March 2019- July 2019), due to a forced renovation on the home I rent (there was a fire), I found a temporary residence while the renovation and went back when done. The contract was in fact cancelled during the renovation period and renewed when I went back.
Would you recommend I include the temporary home of 4 months?
Thanks!!!
Frankly, CIC won't care as long as you are not changing country. Address history is mainly used for determining the countries from where PCC is required.
Either you can give as per below:
Aug 2017 - you can give the AirBnB address,
Sep 2017 till Mar 2019 give the rental address
Mar 2019 to Jul 2019 - give temp address
Jul 2019 till date - again same rental address
or if you want to make it easy:
Aug 2017 till date - give address of rental.
CIC just need to know you were here in canada from Aug 2017 and they will check for your criminality directly. Only if they are unable to find your record (usually happens when there are people with same names and one of them has committed a crime, CIC will request you to submit fingerprints to Canadian Criminal Real Time Identification Services (CCRTIS).