Q 14 - Tell us if you have held passports or travel documents during your five (5) year eligibility period - Please help!

[Tomsi]

I am applying for citizenship. We have Q14 - "Tell us if you have held passports or travel documents during your five (5) year eligibility period."

My question is - What qualifies as travel document?

I have the following - Do I list all of them under this section?

1. Passport
2. Visas from different countries - student visa and work visa
3. Canadian Permanent Resident Card
4. COPR from Canada during landing time
5. Canada TRV - One time travel visa that is given to PR for landing purposes

 

[RJ2020]

I am applying for citizenship. We have Q14 - "Tell us if you have held passports or travel documents during your five (5) year eligibility period."

My question is - What qualifies as travel document?

I have the following - Do I list all of them under this section?

1. Passport
2. Visas from different countries - student visa and work visa
3. Canadian Permanent Resident Card
4. COPR from Canada during landing time
5. Canada TRV - One time travel visa that is given to PR for landing purposes

Just mention passports you’ve held during your five-year eligibility period in Q.14. (in case you have a gap between the validity of your passports, explain the reason as well.)

However, in Q.13, you should mention your non-Canadian VISAs, Permanent residency, or citizenship etc, in any other country, other than Canada.

Tell us which countries you have held status in, and exactly what status you held or currently hold (student, employment/worker, refugee/protected person, permanent resident or citizen).

You don’t mention your PR card, Canadian VISAs, Canadian TRV, or any immigration status you had in Canada in Q.14, since it specifically and clearly mentions “other than Canada” in Question 13.

 

[wink]

From whatever you listed, only the passport. AFAIK, we need to list only travel documents (passport/PRs,etc) of other countries.

 

[Tomsi]

Hi @RJ2020 thanks! Another question- Visa and status are two separate things in the US. Do we mention them separately? Example, Student visa F1 issued from August 2012 till August 2017 can be expired but as long as you maintain F1 student status in US you are fine. Similarly for H1B work visa, my issue and expiry date on passport for H1B US work visa is Jan 2018 till May 2020 but I entered in US on H1B on Feb 2018 and exited March 2018. So my H1B status in US ended with my employment which I resigned in March 2018. i am trying not to over complicate things and I think only visa stampings are fine to be mentioned with issue and expiry date. Would you also agree?

 

[wink]

Hi @RJ2020 thanks! Another question- Visa and status are two separate things in the US. Do we mention them separately? Example, Student visa F1 issued from August 2012 till August 2017 can be expired but as long as you maintain F1 student status in US you are fine. Similarly for H1B work visa, my issue and expiry date on passport for H1B US work visa is Jan 2018 till May 2020 but I entered in US on H1B on Feb 2018 and exited March 2018. So my H1B status in US ended with my employment which I resigned in March 2018. i am trying not to over complicate things and I think only visa stampings are fine to be mentioned with issue and expiry date. Would you also agree?

That's what I would do. i.e. just list the visa types and issue/expiry dates.

 

[CDN1234]

Not a lawyer, but my interpretation of the definition of travel documents is basically any government-issued documents you can use to travel internationally, and are accepted by the customs and immgration authorities to enter or exit other countries. For example, enhanced driver's license and Nexus can be used to enter the US, so those would count as travel documents. IMO, visas are already stamped on your passport pages, and they cannot be used to travel to other countries on their own, so I wouldn't count them as travel documents. With that being said, when in doubt, just include everything you have and explain why you're including them in the box.