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derkdsou

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One of the things I have been obsessing over this week is whether I should have included a scan of my old passport, which was valid up to June 2010. I have a very extensive travel history as I used to live and work in the UK - in the ten years from Dec 2008 to Dec 2018, I had close to a hundred foreign trips to the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.

While I have included a scan of my current passport and all stamped pages in it, the old passport would show my travel history from Dec 2008 to June 2010 that is obviously not in the current passport. Should I go ahead and upload a copy of my old passport unprompted?
 

USProgrammer

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Passport Req..
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24-08-2019
One of the things I have been obsessing over this week is whether I should have included a scan of my old passport, which was valid up to June 2010. I have a very extensive travel history as I used to live and work in the UK - in the ten years from Dec 2008 to Dec 2018, I had close to a hundred foreign trips to the US, Europe, Asia and Africa.

While I have included a scan of my current passport and all stamped pages in it, the old passport would show my travel history from Dec 2008 to June 2010 that is obviously not in the current passport. Should I go ahead and upload a copy of my old passport unprompted?
I would. I included scans of my old passport since it had stamps from the prior 10 years they asked about in the travel history.

I think they want to match up stamps. If it were me, I would have included it, but you may be able to send it now as an attachment to a CSE to avoid an ADR later.
 

derkdsou

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I would. I included scans of my old passport since it had stamps from the prior 10 years they asked about in the travel history.

I think they want to match up stamps. If it were me, I would have included it, but you may be able to send it now as an attachment to a CSE to avoid an ADR later.
Thanks, yes, I'd like to avoid an ADR later. When you say CSE, are you referring to this form? I can't find a way to upload a document using this page though:
https://secure.cic.gc.ca/enquiries-renseignements/canada-case-cas-eng.aspx
 
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jm90

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I travelled to Australia for a couple of weeks in 2017. There is no stamp on my passport because they provided a visa on paper. I no longer have that paper, so I couldn't attach a photocopy. I received my AOR on 24 Dec.
Problem related to travel history?
 

derkdsou

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I travelled to Australia for a couple of weeks in 2017. There is no stamp on my passport because they provided a visa on paper. I no longer have that paper, so I couldn't attach a photocopy. I received my AOR on 24 Dec.
Problem related to travel history?
I also do not have stamps for all entries into the UK because I used the IRIS scan system to enter the country on several trips. Luckily these trips were made out of the Schengen area, India or the US coming back to the UK, so there are at least stamps showing travel on those dates.
 
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jm90

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I also do not have stamps for all entries into the UK because I used the IRIS scan system to enter the country on several trips. Luckily these trips were made out of the Schengen area, India or the US coming back to the UK, so there are at least stamps showing travel on those dates.
I have a stamp on the travel date as well. Just that there is an entry stamp into Los Angeles airport but not out from the US.
 

derkdsou

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I have a stamp on the travel date as well. Just that there is an entry stamp into Los Angeles airport but not out from the US.
I don't think they will get granular to that level. If they need to ask you for an explanation they will and you can provide it then, but I'm sure IRCC are aware that people might not have stamps for both departure and arrival for each of their international flights. UK, for example, doesn't stamp on departure.
 
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jm90

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I don't think they will get granular to that level. If they need to ask you for an explanation they will and you can provide it then, but I'm sure IRCC are aware that people might not have stamps for both departure and arrival for each of their international flights. UK, for example, doesn't stamp on departure.
Yeah I guess, just don't want any delays. It's already stressful enough...
 

derkdsou

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I would. I included scans of my old passport since it had stamps from the prior 10 years they asked about in the travel history.

I think they want to match up stamps. If it were me, I would have included it, but you may be able to send it now as an attachment to a CSE to avoid an ADR later.
Just FYI, I have gone ahead and uploaded a scan of the old passport using the CSE form. I posted the same question on other forums and a lot of people with similar travel histories who did not attach their old passports have since passed R10 (completeness check for documents). Anyway, I decided to play it safe and uploaded it anyway.
 
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USProgrammer

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Oct 29, 2018
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Texas, USA
Category........
FSW
Visa Office......
CIO-Sydney, NS
NOC Code......
2174
AOR Received.
01-12-2018
Passport Req..
25-03-2019
LANDED..........
24-08-2019
Just FYI, I have gone ahead and uploaded a scan of the old passport using the CSE form. I posted the same question on other forums and a lot of people with similar travel histories who did not attach their old passports have since passed R10 (completeness check for documents). Anyway, I decided to play it safe and uploaded it anyway.
Nice. I was going to say you get a chance to upload an attachment in the next step, but someone already said that and you've already done it.

Do you know how to know when we've passed R10?