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Personal History for Canadian PR application does not completely match US immigration records

paulm0920

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Mar 9, 2020
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Hi guys,

I am aware that Canada and the US share almost all information in their databases. Even though this is mostly done in temporary visa applications in either country, I am sure that this is done for PR applications as well.

My problem is that when I applied for my US visas way back, I did not really care about absolute accuracy. The US immigration website mentions that if I do not know the exact dates, I should use my best guess, so that is exactly what I did. I did not really make the effort to get the dates exactly correct (e.g. I mentioned that I started the job in the last week of August when in fact after checking, it actually started on the first week of September). Also for my US visa application, I mentioned an online professional course from Harvard Business School online. In retrospect I should not have included it because it does not really count as education.

I plan on getting my personal history for the Canada PR application 100000% correct with absolute surgical precision. I am worried though that once they check the US databases, they will reject my application because of the mismatch in dates and education. Do you guys reckon this will have a negative impact on my PR application? Will IRCC forgive these discrepancies if I provide transcripts and reference letters to prove that the info on the Canada PR personal history are the correct ones, and the ones from the US database are slightly inaccurate? Should I explain everything in an LOR? I would really appreciate your guys' opinion on this, I am also going to enlist the Campbell Cohen law firm to represent me so that they can meticulously look over my application details the same way IRCC would.

This really means everything to me because I really am head over heals in love with Canada. In fact, when my Canadian brother turned his back on me and said he would not help me gain points for Canadian siblings, I studied French 12 hours per day every day for 6 months to reach C1 level so I can get the extra 30 points for TEF CLB7, this on top of my 8 hour per day full time job. I have dedicated 18 hours per day just to make this work, I would absolutely be crushed if this goes tits up because of my nonchalance when I was younger. Please give me your opinion guys.
 

navinball

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Feb 26, 2018
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Overthinking it. You only need to mention travel/residence history in usa or any visa refusals. They don't go into your usa visa applications and check things out.