Living at addresses since age 18????

[NicAnn]

Anyone else have problems trying to remember everywhere and addresses since 18 years old. How accurate does this need to be. Anyone have issues with their applications with this.

 

[parker24]

Anyone else have problems trying to remember everywhere and addresses since 18 years old. How accurate does this need to be. Anyone have issues with their applications with this.

Hubby did. We had to bother everyone he knew to get the addresses. Sadly, this is important. So you would have to ask family members and friends if your old addresses are in an old address book somewhere. It took us a month to get them all for hubby.

 

[NicAnn]

Ok, well we better get cracking, sigh...

 

[dzuls]

Hi NicAnn,

I have the same problem. Not as much with completing the addresses but how accurate it must be.
For example, I was working in different cities and had employment breaks. So that for the time in between when I was not working, I was staying back at my parents place (my parents place is still the official residential address registered on my personal ID from my country). So do I have to include the addresses like following: address in a city A, then my parents place, city B, then parents again or just parents throughout the time???

 

[Marty11]

Hi NicAnn,

So do I have to include the addresses like following: address in a city A, then my parents place, city B, then parents again or just parents throughout the time???

Yes!

 

[dzuls]

Yes meaning which option..?

 

[NicAnn]

Hi NicAnn,

I have the same problem. Not as much with completing the addresses but how accurate it must be.
For example, I was working in different cities and had employment breaks. So that for the time in between when I was not working, I was staying back at my parents place (my parents place is still the official residential address registered on my personal ID from my country). So do I have to include the addresses like following: address in a city A, then my parents place, city B, then parents again or just parents throughout the time???

That's a really good question dzuls. I have a similar problem with my residencies. I think I'm going to pay a private investigator and just go by what he discovers because I don't have information going back 35+ years that has all the information I need. They didn't even have things in computers back then. :-[ Man do I feel ancient right now.

 

[m_and_m]

dzuls, I was wondering the same thing myself! I'm in a similar situation, and I am going to put the addresses where I actually was staying.
For example x month to x month my parents' address, then address in a city A, then parents, then city B, then parents etc. Officially my address was my parents' address this whole time.
Then again, I am just assuming this is how it should be put

 

[McDutch]

I had more trouble remembering all my part time jobs

 

[Creampop]

Hi NicAnn,

I have the same problem. Not as much with completing the addresses but how accurate it must be.
For example, I was working in different cities and had employment breaks. So that for the time in between when I was not working, I was staying back at my parents place (my parents place is still the official residential address registered on my personal ID from my country). So do I have to include the addresses like following: address in a city A, then my parents place, city B, then parents again or just parents throughout the time???

Yes you would enter back to your parents residence each time you moved back. I'm old (LOL) and had to ask my baby sister to help me remember all my addresses of the last 20+ years...

 

[Marty11]

Yes!

Yes, meaning address A, parents address, address B, parents address, etc....

 

[parker24]

That's a really good question dzuls. I have a similar problem with my residencies. I think I'm going to pay a private investigator and just go by what he discovers because I don't have information going back 35+ years that has all the information I need. They didn't even have things in computers back then. :-[ Man do I feel ancient right now.

35 years? No no, only 10 years if that is closer. You don't do since 18 if it's been more than 10 years since you WERE 18. Says that in the instructions

 

[Creampop]

35 years? No no, only 10 years if that is closer. You don't do since 18 if it's been more than 10 years since you WERE 18. Says that in the instructions

It says under personal history (Section 8)... history since age of 18, or the past 10 years, whichever comes first. Then when you scroll down to Addresses (Section 12) it says... List all addresses where you lived since your 18th birthday. Do not use P.O. box addresses. So yes he would have to list 35+ years of addresses. I listed 24 years worth... but only 10 years worth of employment.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/imm5669E.pdf

 

[NicAnn]

It says under personal history (Section 8)... history since age of 18, or the past 10 years, whichever comes first. Then when you scroll down to Addresses (Section 12) it says... List all addresses where you lived since your 18th birthday. Do not use P.O. box addresses. So yes he would have to list 35+ years of addresses. I listed 24 years worth... but only 10 years worth of employment.

Thanks Creampop, I was confused about that also, but figured it was from 18 year old because that came first (sheesh)...the only thing we've done so far is sending for an FBI report and did so about a month ago. I paid by credit card and can check online to see if the credit card payment has been processed. It hasn't yet, sigh, when we get the FBI report back we can get the application going. There was a bit of a problem getting good fingerprints on me, so we hope it will go through.

Once we see that the payment is processed we will begin to fill in the application more aggressively. We keep going back and forth on whether we want to use a private investigator to try to find my addresses because they say it is difficult to find addresses dating back before 1990. I do want to show that we tried every means to find the information, and hope that our efforts will help to show that we sincerely wish to fill in all the info as close as we can humanly be to best possible in accuracy.

 

[Sweden]

Thanks Creampop, I was confused about that also, but figured it was from 18 year old because that came first (sheesh)...the only thing we've done so far is sending for an FBI report and did so about a month ago. I paid by credit card and can check online to see if the credit card payment has been processed. It hasn't yet, sigh, when we get the FBI report back we can get the application going. There was a bit of a problem getting good fingerprints on me, so we hope it will go through.

Once we see that the payment is processed we will begin to fill in the application more aggressively. We keep going back and forth on whether we want to use a private investigator to try to find my addresses because they say it is difficult to find addresses dating back before 1990. I do want to show that we tried every means to find the information, and hope that our efforts will help to show that we sincerely wish to fill in all the info as close as we can humanly be to best possible in accuracy.

just as a side note - you only have 3 months to send in your application once you get your FBI record, as they are only valid for 3 months for CIC ( even if they are valid for a year, they need to reach CIC within 3 months of being issued) .... and filling out the rest of the application takes a lot of time... good luck with that.

For the addresses - I had the same problem. I listed the "main ones" - at some point, I was staying in the same city but house sitting 2 weeks at a time, but was still registered at a friend: I stated my friend address, and nothing else. I also added a note to that question saying that I have filled it out to the best of my abilities, but that some dates were approximate ( I could only put the month and not the precise dates) because of how many times I had moved for the last 10 years... (or since I was 18 I don't remember what it was)

It's important to put an effort into it, but I'm sure that CIC can also understand that we don't keep record of everything... If I had known one day that I would try to emigrate to Canada I would have started collecting things! but then again - that's the best proof that you didn't enter in a relationship to gain access to Canada - it just happened that way!

Good luck,
Sweden