Forms Updated on Completed Application

[froglover]

Hello,

We've just finished putting together a spousal sponsorship application today and were about to send it off - of course we then found out the forms had updated. Does anyone know if there's a page we can check where IRCC says what's been updated? Or if they announce any kind of grace period with sending in old forms? It will be a few days before we have access to a printer again.

Thanks everyone!

 

[armoured]

Rather generally, they seem to usually accept the most recent forms before the current. Unfortunately not always easy to tell.

Could you specify which forms you are referring to, and dates of the most recent /the ones you filled out.

(To make things worse, It seems that sometimes there are versions where there are no obvious changes are made and it may just be minor adjustments and possibly just to the 'computerised' part of it - eg the bar code generation or things like that)

 

[froglover]

From what I can tell it's just forms:
- IMM1344, which was updated 05-2022. Ours says 06-2019 on it
- IMM0008, updated 04-2022. Ours says 08-2021

I think I downloaded both forms initially in March.

What I checked here was the dates at the bottom of the forms after downloading them a second time today, since the list of dates on the Find Application Forms and Guides page dropdown here doesn't seem to be up to date, or at least it lists older dates than the forms themselves - https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides.php

If there's somewhere better for me to be checking please let me know! Some forms don't have dates listed anywhere I can find, like the Document Checklist IMM5533, so I'm not totally sure how to be certain I have the most up to date copy.

Thank you so much!

 

[armoured]

From what I can tell it's just forms:
- IMM1344, which was updated 05-2022. Ours says 06-2019 on it
- IMM0008, updated 04-2022. Ours says 08-2021

Unfortunately I think it's all a hot mess. Personally, I would redo both forms, but definitely the one that is three years old. I know it's a pain but it's far better than getting the package sent back.

I don't know of a single best source to download and get all of the most recent forms.

 

[froglover]

I figured we'd probably end up having to redo them but I appreciate it anyway! Just a real letdown getting to the end of it all and finding out it's not over. Ah well.

 

[Gagandeep_Ghotra]

I figured we'd probably end up having to redo them but I appreciate it anyway! Just a real letdown getting to the end of it all and finding out it's not over. Ah well.

I am in the same boat. But only for form 1344. My application was online and all others forms are good. There seems to be no real change when I fill in the new 1344 one ( updated on May 2022), compared to the previous version ( June 2019). I sent an enquiry asking whether I should resend the 1344, if they will send the application back when there is literally no difference in how they look when filled out ( with barcodes too).