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Made Lots of Errors in Citizenship Application - Withdraw or Webform

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alessainebuckley

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Despite quadruple checking everything on my Canadian citizenship application before submitting it, I realized a few days later that I somehow misremembered / forgot to include a few pieces of information in the Work and Study History section. I put the wrong dates in one of my Work History entries and because of that I forgot to include a brief period of unemployment in 2020 (1 month in between jobs). I forgot to include freelance work I did in 2022, I did not mention part time studies that I took in 2023 (it was one course and I completely forgot I took it), and accidentally said “Yes” to filing taxes in 2024 when we can’t even file taxes for 2024 yet. Since I have made such a mess of things, do I bother updating using the webform or at this point should I just withdraw and start a new application? Especially since I don’t have AOR yet so I can likely get a refund. I am 500 days over my physical presence eligibility so I am good there, but I am now rightfully concerned about inconsistencies with CRA records as it is not going to match.

If I do withdraw, how soon can I reapply? Any thoughts would be helpful!
 
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forw.jane

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alessainebuckley said:
Despite quadruple checking everything on my Canadian citizenship application before submitting it, I realized a few days later that I somehow misremembered / forgot to include a few pieces of information in the Work and Study History section. I put the wrong dates in one of my Work History entries and because of that I forgot to include a brief period of unemployment in 2020 (1 month in between jobs). I forgot to include freelance work I did in 2022, I did not mention part time studies that I took in 2023 (it was one course and I completely forgot I took it), and accidentally said “Yes” to filing taxes in 2024 when we can’t even file taxes for 2024 yet. Since I have made such a mess of things, do I bother updating using the webform or at this point should I just withdraw and start a new application? Especially since I don’t have AOR yet so I can likely get a refund. I am 500 days over my physical presence eligibility so I am good there, but I am now rightfully concerned about inconsistencies with CRA records as it is not going to match.

If I do withdraw, how soon can I reapply? Any thoughts would be helpful!
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The things you mentioned above does not make you ineligible for citizenship. Once you get your AOR via webform you can update IRCC about all the above discrepancies.
 
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Lemonygogo

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alessainebuckley said:
I ended up withdrawing the application and starting a new one. It was less of a headache! Since I withdrew before getting an AOR, it was a simple and straightforward process.
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Thanks a lot for your response! When did you receive confirmation of the withdrawl? Like when did you hear back from them after you submitting withdraw request?
 
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alessainebuckley

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taz64 said:
I am also very curious to know this @alessainebuckley - would be so grateful if you can update us.
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Apologies about the delay! So what I did was I requested for a refund of my citizenship application fees at the same time that I applied to withdraw my application. This can be done through the IRCC payment service portal and I got the refund within a couple of days. I actually never got a confirmation that my last application was officially withdrawn, I only got confirmation that my request for withdrawal was received. A week or so later, IRCC returned my application because I “did not pay the fees”, so I was able to delete that application and submit a new application. Called an IRCC officer who confirmed that my old application doesn’t exist anymore so I was good to submit a new application. To be honest, it seemed like the departments that was processing withdrawals and applications and refunds weren’t really communicating, but it worked out on my end. Good luck!
 
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