Hi,
I got invited to apply for a working holiday visa and need to mention which countries I have lived in for longer than 6 months in the past 5 years and provide police clearances of good conduct for each of those countries. For my studies I spent time abroad and was registered in those countries, but also kept my main registration in my home country Belgium, hence I never "left". One of the countries I studied in but returned home over the weekends, the other I stayed for longer periods (a year in total for paid thesis-work) but have also gone back to Belgium to visit. I was thinking of leaving out that information as it is an extreme hassle for me to actually get those clearances.
Will CIC find out I stayed there? It's not that I have secrets to keep or would not get the police clearance, it's just a costly and time-consuming affair that I'd like to avoid. I can already imagine not being able to retrieve the correct information for them to verify me straight away and foresee a lot of communicating back and forth. I was hoping since I kept my main registration in Belgium I could just leave it at that and be done with it.
Cheers!
PS: posting this here cause it has been impossible for me to call CIC themselves, I think the 0800 number won't let me call from abroad.
I got invited to apply for a working holiday visa and need to mention which countries I have lived in for longer than 6 months in the past 5 years and provide police clearances of good conduct for each of those countries. For my studies I spent time abroad and was registered in those countries, but also kept my main registration in my home country Belgium, hence I never "left". One of the countries I studied in but returned home over the weekends, the other I stayed for longer periods (a year in total for paid thesis-work) but have also gone back to Belgium to visit. I was thinking of leaving out that information as it is an extreme hassle for me to actually get those clearances.
Will CIC find out I stayed there? It's not that I have secrets to keep or would not get the police clearance, it's just a costly and time-consuming affair that I'd like to avoid. I can already imagine not being able to retrieve the correct information for them to verify me straight away and foresee a lot of communicating back and forth. I was hoping since I kept my main registration in Belgium I could just leave it at that and be done with it.
Cheers!
PS: posting this here cause it has been impossible for me to call CIC themselves, I think the 0800 number won't let me call from abroad.
