rajspeeder said:
Hi,
I am Canadian PR Holder working in USA and will be moving to Canada anytime. I realized after getting PR, I have mistakenly missed some cities in the travel history form while applying Canada PR. I applied Canadian PR from USA, at that time, i was moving jobs every 3 to 6 months. I guess, I forgot mentioning all the cities that i lived or worked or did not remember the address in different cities in USA. Now i have the Canada PR card.
- I will be moving to Canada shortly. Do you think, i will get any problem after staying in Canada or while applying Canadian citizenship.
- Is it required to inform the CIC about the same
Any suggestions will be helpful
Thanks
If I understand your query correctly, you omitted information in your original application for PR, and this was due to an oversight.
The significance of something like this cannot be assessed in the abstract. Obviously, the nature and extent to which the facts differ from what you reported matters. The more extensive the discrepancy, the more significant or perhaps serious it is.
Minor errors, or minimal discrepancies, should not be a problem. If, for example, you declared your address and employment to have been in Scranton, Pennsylvania for most of a particular year, but you actually spent three months in Wilkes-Barre, that was not good to do but in the long run is probably insignificant. On the other hand, if you declared you were in Scranton, Pennsylvania for most of the year, then next in Houston, Texas, but in-between you were in Atlanta, Georgia for three months, and Memphis, Tennessee for three months, I don't know, that's a pretty big discrepancy to have made by mistake.
Discrepancies in employment related to qualifying for a FSW class PR loom as more significant. But again, now that you have PR status the question is how much of a difference there is between what was reported and what was the truth. But even leaving out a part-time employer has recently been ruled to be a material misrepresentation, even though the individual who did this asserted he/she (do not recall the individual's gender) thought that extra employment was insignificant, that what mattered was his/her main job. The fact that the individual's employment was relevant to qualifications for the PR visa itself (not just background and security, such as for a person applying for a sponsored partner PR visa) was a big factor.
Depending on the extent of the discrepancies from the facts, you may want to seriously consider talking to a Canadian immigration lawyer.
But yes, of course, if the discrepancies are such as they might be deemed to have been material misrepresentations, your PR status is forever at risk, and even if you obtained citizenship that might be at risk. I have no idea what the practical risks are, but here too the nature and extent of the discrepancies is probably a big factor . . . the bigger the discrepancy, the greater the risk.
