Please help! Personal history missed information when I applied for pr.

[zcgabriel]

Hi All,

I'm currently in a trick situation and really need your advice here:

I'm a PR already. I'm preparing my girl friend's PR application through family sponsorship class recently. When I was doing the personal history (address) part, I couldn't remember an address I used to live in, during which time I knew my girlfriend. So I looked up in the GCMS that I ordered from CIC when my PR application was in process. But I found that I missed that part in my personal history. It was a period after I quit my job and before I come to Canada to study. During that time, I spent 5 months learning Deutsch in the city I worked and met my girl friend in the class. Then I went home and stayed for another 5 months. I declared that 10 months unemployed period but only filled my home address, missing the address while I was learning Deutsch.
I must had filled the address part according to the employment part, without noticing that I actually lived in two places.

What should I do now? Write a letter to CIC explaining this together with my girl friend's application?

Your advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you! :-[

 

[desertFlower]

I doubt they will open your PR to validate your addresses in your girlfriend's PR...
I would only write a little explanation on a separate sheet about the fact that your forgot the address where you lived for 5 months to learn Dutch.

 

[zcgabriel]

I doubt they will open your PR to validate your addresses in your girlfriend's PR...
I would only write a little explanation on a separate sheet about the fact that your forgot the address where you lived for 5 months to learn Dutch.

Thanks for the reply. My agent suggested not to mention it, just try to provide the correct information and try to be as accurate as possible for my girlfriend's application. He said if CIC brought it up, then I just need to tell the truth that I forgot to add that address.

I don't want to make it complex either, but just feel like I'm hiding something.

If CIC noticed that, is it gonna be a misrepresentation?

 

[Aquakitty]

Thanks for the reply. My agent suggested not to mention it, just try to provide the correct information and try to be as accurate as possible for my girlfriend's application. He said if CIC brought it up, then I just need to tell the truth that I forgot to add that address.

I don't want to make it complex either, but just feel like I'm hiding something.

If CIC noticed that, is it gonna be a misrepresentation?

It is, but it's very minor as it wouldn't have an impact on your original application. Is the address you lived at in the same city? How far away is it?

 

[zcgabriel]

It is, but it's very minor as it wouldn't have an impact on your original application. Is the address you lived at in the same city? How far away is it?

No, it was the city I worked. My hometown is pretty far away from there, one and half hour flight.

 

[Aquakitty]

No, it was the city I worked. My hometown is pretty far away from there, one and half hour flight.

So you met while you were staying at the omitted address, right? I agree with your representative in this case. Tell the whole truth about where you met, but you don't need to explain this discrepancy, it's not really a discrepancy the way you describe it. Unless you aren't telling the whole story, I don't see how this in any way would have affected your original PR application. 5 months is more of a visit over living, anyways, and if you need to mention it on her application, you can say you were visiting to learn Dutch, which is true. Your home base was your home address.


One thing though, you say you are sponsoring your "girlfriend". I assume you mean common-law wife, as you have lived together for a year? You can't sponsor a girlfriend.

 

[zcgabriel]

So you met while you were staying at the omitted address, right? I agree with your representative in this case. Tell the whole truth about where you met, but you don't need to explain this discrepancy, it's not really a discrepancy the way you describe it. Unless you aren't telling the whole story, I don't see how this in any way would have affected your original PR application. 5 months is more of a visit over living, anyways, and if you need to mention it on her application, you can say you were visiting to learn Dutch, which is true. Your home base was your home address.


One thing though, you say you are sponsoring your "girlfriend". I assume you mean common-law wife, as you have lived together for a year? You can't sponsor a girlfriend.

Yes, I met her while I were staying at the omitted address.
You are correct, I mean common-law wife. Just not used to call her wife ;D. We are also about to get married.

Thanks for your advice, really appreciate. Great relief for me.