Quesiton 4A place of birth: Russia or USSR

[aed]

As ecas lists USSR, I guess you can put it as your place of birth. Someone mentioned they put Russia and didn't have any issues either. Wsjo rawno.

 

[OrangeCup]

Friends,
Let me make it a bit easy for you guys, the question is like this:
If Superman, who was born on planet Krypton -- a planet that blew up shortly after he escaped -- is being asked where he was born, should he truthfully state Krypton or make a false statement such as Kitchener or Kampala?

You were born where you were born, put the name of the country as it was when you were born i.e. as in BC/PP etc. It would be wrong to change, as the concept of many new nations didn't exist at that time.

If you keep changing Leningrad will be St. Petersburg too. As I said earlier, to finally end up having many mismatching documents to face unintended consequences. You can put it as Leningrad, USSR while your kids can say St. Petersburg, Russia. Nothing wrong in it.

If you were a sports lover and watch a lot of matches, you will know this in a flash second. When you look up a player, listed is the country they were born in, not what it is today.

Here is an example
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/1851

Same player, another site
http://espn.go.com/nhl/player/_/id/358/jochen-hecht

Another one
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3233

One more example (different country) Now Kazakhstan
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/1884

If I could vote the best answer like you can on yahoo, I'd chose this. If an immigration officer asks me my I wrote USSR, I say, well, look at all the hockey players (and it is also how its written in my passport, but it's irrelevant).

Thanks everyone!

 

[screech339]

As long as Ecas has listed USSR in one of the country listing, I don't suppose there is any harm in writing USSR is country of birth even though USSR is not technically a country. But it is what the COPR is listed as. But I am curious as to what's written on the OP's PR card now. Is it listed as USSR or Russia?

Screech339

 

[OrangeCup]

As long as Ecas has listed USSR in one of the country listing, I don't suppose there is any harm in writing USSR is country of birth even though USSR is not technically a country. But it is what the COPR is listed as. But I am curious as to what's written on the OP's PR card now. Is it listed as USSR or Russia?

Screech339

PR card doesn't have place of birth, only nationality - RUS, that part is easy. even in the application itself there are 2 questions: place of birth (POB) and nationality.
Nationality doesn't raise any questions, it was the POB part that confused me. But i think it makes sense what was said earlier here: my passport lists USSR, therefore USSR is the country name that goes into the application POB section.

 

[screech339]

PR card doesn't have place of birth, only nationality - RUS, that part is easy. even in the application itself there are 2 questions: place of birth (POB) and nationality.
Nationality doesn't raise any questions, it was the POB part that confused me. But i think it makes sense what was said earlier here: my passport lists USSR, therefore USSR is the country name that goes into the application POB section.

Since your PR card list your nationality as Russian since nationality is after all based on country. It is seem rather safe to say Russia in your application.

I am sure a lot of other people in the same shoes as you have reported their ex-soviet country as country of birth as opposed to USSR.

I was wrong in saying USSR is not really a country. It was a country much like US for example. Each 50 states represent US as a whole much like 15 soviet republic represent USSR as a whole.

If US collapsed the same way as USSR did, then you can have 50 countries instead of 50 states.

 

[Donvalley]

If I could vote the best answer like you can on yahoo, I'd chose this. If an immigration officer asks me my I wrote USSR, I say, well, look at all the hockey players (and it is also how its written in my passport, but it's irrelevant).

Thanks everyone!

Thank you OrangeCup. You can vote here too like yahoo, not best but on Good there..