Toronto_13 said:
Hi All,
I was going through the forum and found that i have answered N/A on question 6I on Application formi.e Minor's Education History.I have 2 kids both "not at school age" born in Canada.
While filling up the application ,I misunderstood and missed reading the whole question and wrote N/A as i thought my kids are already born here and there's no education history of them.
I already received AOR and my application is "In Process" since Feb,2017.
Please advice how to rectify the answer to that question? Or should i wait till i get a Test Invite and explain to cic officer that it was a genuine mistake .
I am not an expert and cannot offer specific advice about what an individual applicant should do.
That said, since the application has cleared the completeness screening, it seems unlikely to me that this will be much of a problem, and is something you might wait to correct at the time of the documents check interview. (Bring children's birth certificate.)
It is a mistake. Always better to not make a mistake. Almost always better to correct a mistake at the first opportunity. And indeed, you could send a supplemental page to IRCC clearly identifying yourself and the item in the application, and state the correction along with a brief explanation why you are correcting this item.
But one of the idiosyncrasies of dealing with a bureaucracy, is that any action outside the routine tends to increase the risk of knocking the process out of a routine-processing track. And sending in a supplemental change to the application is, of course, outside the routine.
So, many might elect to wait until the interview to correct any
minor mistake.
My sense is this particular error is indeed minor. But that is assuming the children are residing
IN Canada. Since that is largely what this information in the application is about: information tending to verify the children have been living in Canada, since children ordinarily live with the parent this is relevant to assessing where the parent has been living.
Thus, as long as the children are indeed living in Canada, it is not as if your error results in the omission of any potentially negative information. Thus the omission of information about them should be minor, of little or no import. Correction at the interview should easily suffice.
If the children have not been residing in Canada, revealing this to IRCC could trigger non-routine processing, perhaps elevated scrutiny of the presence calculation. Nonetheless, in this situation it may be best to correct the application sooner rather than later. You absolutely want to avoid the appearance of attempting to conceal this information from IRCC. The negative implications arising from their being abroad are far less negative than IRCC perceiving your credibility to be compromised. (In this regard, the item itself clearly states that children who are Canadian citizens are to be included, and it explicitly provides a check box for children "not at school age," so it is difficult to push the
"misunderstood" explanation all that much.)
In any event, what you do at this stage is a judgment call for you to make.
