PR Card Renewal Form - Q19 Address History Inside and Outside Canada

[axelfoley]

In relation to Q19 "Address History Inside and Outside Canada". The form in that section has a column that needs to be filled in that says "Apartment, street no. and street name".

My question is: in the case of someone who was working based in the United Arab Emirates for a year, but travelling to other countries on business and therefore regularly changing hotel/apartment, is it necessary to put down each check-in date and check date and put the name and address of the hotel/apartments in each country?

I suppose if the answer is "yes" (a very tedious exercise ), then the dates of each residence in each hotel should correspond with entry and exit stamps in my passport(s)..

 

[Bs65]

So you maintained a residence in UAE for a year then left on business trips temporarily staying in hotels/ apartments before returning after each trip to your residence in UAE ? If the question was about travel history then maybe could understand but staying temporarily in hotels not sure how that could be considered different residences given temporary nature assuming your main residence was in UAE.

 

[axelfoley]

@Bs65, thanks for the reply, I know it sounds unusual...

I never had a "main residence in UAE". It was always long-stay hotels with apartment type facilities (kitchen + washing facilities). Whenever I had business trips I checked out of my hotel/apartment and stored my items to save money. The reason I could not rent a regular long-lease apartment for the year was it took a very long-time to get my UAE residence visa which would have allowed me to rent a regular apartment. In the mean time, my employer was not paying me my salary on time and when he did it was often weeks or months late and less than what was in my contract. Later on he stopped paying altogether.

Hence, even if I could have been allowed to rent a regular apartment I could not afford to drop the money I did get from my employer on committing to a one year apartment lease not knowing I wanted to leave. I therefore checked in and out of long-stay furnished apartments during that year... In the last few months, my employer was refusing to allow me to resign for which I needed to have his permission to cancel the residence visa. So I was unpaid, not allowed to resign and still expected to work in the last 3 to 4 months of that year.

So I suppose I have to put down the hotel addresses in my PR renewal, and when I didn't have a hotel booked in UAE, it would be in Africa or wherever else I went? I am trying to avoid "misrepresentation" by saying I was on one hotel/address when in fact I can't show a booking for the entire year in one hotel... Although not being in Canada for that time is not in dispute, which is the main thing I guess they are looking for (i.e. adding up days in Canada), I was concerned I could technically be "misrepresenting" my address history if am not detailed and explicit?

Thanks for your advice!