Missed declaring visa refusal

[aabir]

I missed declaring a visa refusal from the USA during my study permit and work permit application but now while applying for PR I am declaring the visa refusal. Will there be any issues? Do I need to mention the mistake I made in my study permit and work permit application or should just avoid it as I am declaring truthfully this time? Did anyone face a similar issue?

 

[Taran D]

I missed declaring a visa refusal from the USA during my study permit and work permit application but now while applying for PR I am declaring the visa refusal. Will there be any issues? Do I need to mention the mistake I made in my study permit and work permit application or should just avoid it as I am declaring truthfully this time? Did anyone face a similar issue?

The past is past, you can't undo that.
The only thing is to be truthful now and keep letter of explanation ready in case asked.

 

[Taran D]

If I had a dollar for every time I have seen on this forum people posting about how they made a mistake, or “missed” giving an honest answer to a very simple question, I could retire.

Here, you say you “missed declaring a visa refusal”. That makes it sound like you skipped over the question. Maybe you did not see it, working through the form in haste perhaps. But, that’s not what happened. You did, in fact, provide an answer. How can it be, when asked the clear and straightforward question: “Have you been refused a visa before?” that you could possibly select “no” as your answer? In my view, that could only happen if you intend to lie.

You have posed your question in several threads. In one you said:



So, it sounds like you have answered the question, more than once, incorrectly (untruthfully) each time. You make it sound like, more recently, at the time of your EE application, you had a moment of clarity, of recovered memory, and you came to the “realization” that, lo and behold, you were refused in the past.

You now want advice on how to fix the “mistake”.

I, for one, would be delighted to see, for once, someone take ownership of their “mistake” and come here and say: “I lied on a previous application and how can I now mitigate the effect of the lie?”

Perhaps I am in error in my assessment of what you have done, but I doubt that very much indeed. To me, it strains credulity to the breaking point to suggest that you lack moral blameworthiness in all of this.

Yes how could one miss this critical point. How can you miss you paid fees, visited agents to submit application, handed the docs with your own hands or scanned it, waited for reply from immigration, checked emails regularly for answer, made air castles being there physically???