Military Service

[Pollen]

I am sponsoring my US husband to come to Canada. We're at the military service part and he did serve but he keeps telling me he is not allowed to share the information the form is asking for. What am I supposed to put? He tells me he can't fill out the dates and places of any active combat. He also tells me his commanding officers changed so frequently that he couldn't possibly remember them all. Has any one else had to deal with the military service information? What did you do? My husband is very disorganized he probably doesn't even know what dates he was in places. How do we even go about getting this information?

 

[Alurra71]

I have no idea on how to help you, but if he was that 'hush hush' that he's not even supposed to talk about it, expect to have quite a few delays as they assess him very carefully

He must have some sort of military record to get information from, try there?

 

[screech339]

That may be a problem for your US husband. If he was on classified mission that he cannot divulge, expect delays as CiC will not accept missing / absence dates. CIC may even return the application for "incomplete" forms ie missing dates.

I would suggest that your husband contact the officials in the military and explain the situation with them. Perhaps they can relay the information he can officially use in the application.

Screech339

 

[keesio]

I'm afraid this will slow down his application. CIC will want to know some details. Even though Canada and the US are military allies, it doesn't mean they will simply take his word for it.

 

[Pollen]

He can barely talk about his service. He was pretty damaged by it. When he does he gets defensive and pretty angry. I don't know how to get this information. We also have no idea how to get his work history, he never kept track and 10 years of work history when you work min wage jobs with high turn over. He had a lot.

 

[Alurra71]

This information is going to be a necessary evil. I can understand how he might have a hard time talking about it, but he's going to have to if he truly intends to immigrate to Canada with you. You'll have to put together all of his jobs as well, so it sounds like you have a lot of work ahead of you to get the application together fully.

 

[Kysorb]

Would he be able to obtain some sort of service record from the military? I would think that the information they would be willing to release on it will probably satisfy CIC.

 

[ulsterman82]

I am sponsoring my US husband to come to Canada. We're at the military service part and he did serve but he keeps telling me he is not allowed to share the information the form is asking for. What am I supposed to put? He tells me he can't fill out the dates and places of any active combat. He also tells me his commanding officers changed so frequently that he couldn't possibly remember them all. Has any one else had to deal with the military service information? What did you do? My husband is very disorganized he probably doesn't even know what dates he was in places. How do we even go about getting this information?

Hello! Well i served in the British Army for 13 years going to both Afghanistan and Iraq and had no issue putting in my service deployments and those Commanding Officers that i could remember. If i couldn't remember the CO's name i would simply put the most senior ranking officer i could. So hopefully that will be enough. With regards to the Restricted nature of his deployments if it was either Afghanistan or Iraq and with a non special forces unit and not some top secret mission to another country i don't think he has too much to worry about it especially that we are all apart of NATO and if service was in Afghanistan it would have been under the ISAF banner to which we were coalition partners. My opinion is that american soldiers are generally overly sensitive to the actual classification of their service especially when its something that pretty much out in the public domain.