[e-APR]Personal Activities, Travel History and Address History

[nscola2016]

Hi Guys,

I am preparing for e-APR myself and have almost everything ready to go but just have a few things that I want to clarify before submission:

1. Personal Activities - This includes personal history of past ten years and cannot have any gaps. Yet it did not specify how granular it has to be. If I studied for several years and had summer internships in between, should I generalize that into one study period and include the internship information only in the employment history? Or do I have to break them down to study-work-study-work, etc.??

2. Travel History - It is described as "trips taken out side of country of origin". Does that mean the time spent in home country does not need to be included? (For example, if I came to Canada Jan 2016-June 2016, went home for one month and came back to Canada August 2016 until now, should I include two trips - one from Jan 2016 to June 2016 to Canada, another August 2016 to present, and leave July 2016 blank??)

3. Address History - Does this include every single address that I lived or just the ones I have left as permanent address for government? My permanent address has been that of my relatives in Canada but I did not always live with them. if I have stayed with friends for a few months and paid cash, and I did not leave that address to the government (since it's unnecessary), do I need to include that address as well? Can I just use my permanent address?

Thanks so much for any help (or even stopping by)!

 

[picklee]

(1) Any employment should be corroborated with your work history and supported by reference letters. Internships will not give you any credit in employment, so you could just say you studied from 2000-2004.

(2) In this case, assuming you were living in Canada in June 2016, then IRCC is only interested in trips elsewhere. The exact requirements for this section are given below:

Provide details of any trips APPLICANT'S NAME has taken outside his/her country of origin or of residence in the last ten years (or since his/her 18th birthday if this was less than ten years ago). Include all trips: tourism, business, training, etc.

Note here that trips outside country of origin or country of residence are specifically excluded. So trips between Canada and your home country need not be reported.

(3) This is the requirement for address history:

Provide all of the addresses where APPLICANT'S NAME has lived in the past ten years or since APPLICANT'S NAME 18th birthday, whichever is most recent. Do not leave any gaps.

 

[mauro80]

thanks picklee,
I came back from Canada (where I live now) to Italy (Origin... is origin considered where I come from beside Canada I assume).
On my way to Italy I stopped to UK/Germany/Czech Repubblic, there is no trace on my passport and I don't recall the exact dates. What is the best way to do this ?

thanks

 

[nscola2016]

(1) Any employment should be corroborated with your work history and supported by reference letters. Internships will not give you any credit in employment, so you could just say you studied from 2000-2004.

(2) In this case, assuming you were living in Canada in June 2016, then IRCC is only interested in trips elsewhere. The exact requirements for this section are given below:

Note here that trips outside country of origin or country of residence are specifically excluded. So trips between Canada and your home country need not be reported.

(3) This is the requirement for address history:

Thank you!

Just to clarify:
2. In a nutshell, time spent in home country can be exempted from travel history (I guess that's implied but just to be sure)?
3. For address history, if I did not leave my name for certain short-period stays(incl. travel) I do not need to include them right?

 

[picklee]

thanks picklee,
I came back from Canada (where I live now) to Italy (Origin... is origin considered where I come from beside Canada I assume).
On my way to Italy I stopped to UK/Germany/Czech Repubblic, there is no trace on my passport and I don't recall the exact dates. What is the best way to do this ?

thanks

Well you must of had a flight to get from Canada to UK, it's a long swim. Is there an itinerary in your email or a receipt of that somewhere? Your passport would have been stamped on entering the UK or at least inspected.

 

[picklee]

Thank you!

Just to clarify:
2. In a nutshell, time spent in home country can be exempted from travel history (I guess that's implied but just to be sure)?
3. For address history, if I did not leave my name for certain short-period stays(incl. travel) I do not need to include them right?

(2) Yes, you do not need to record trips between country of origin and Canada while you lived in Canada.

(3) Travel is not typically considered residence. I used my parents address when I was "in between places". Your address history locations should corroborate your work history locations and education history and personal history.

 

[mauro80]

The UK travel is not an issue. I have the flights dates.
But for UE citizens: they do check the passport but they don't apply any stamp (at least until 2019).
The problem of mine are all those small little intra europe trip done by train or car (or even flight, since no stamp on passport).
I litterally have dozens can't recall them all...

 

[RelocateDream]

(2) Yes, you do not need to record trips between country of origin and Canada while you lived in Canada.

(3) Travel is not typically considered residence. I used my parents address when I was "in between places". Your address history locations should corroborate your work history locations and education history and personal history.

Re: response (2), does the same principle apply to US instead of Canada i.e., no need to record trips between US and country of origin while living in the US, correct? Thanks!