FWSAPPLICANT said:
Fkl,
IMO, One has to mention his correct address history, it's not about permanent or temporary. Not mentioning the correct address history where you have have lived in last 10 years is misrepresentation.
Those who are rejected based on Pcc is because they have submitted time bound PCCs like Mr John has been living on this address Xxxxx from 2013.
Technically one should provide PCCs covering all the time after he turned to 18 till to date. So, providing PCC from your current address provided that you have been living over there since you turned to 18 is enough in your opinion, on your PCC it should be mentioned like living on this address since birth or since 2000 (if you turned to 18 on 2000)
Sure I respect your thoughts and in the ideal scenario this is best. However, it is not practical for every one. Without going into too much details, I never lived in a family home since grade 6. So all in all I would have some thing like 22-23 addresses since the age of 18, spread across 3-4 major cities. Many of which, I do not have any proof of living with and couldn't even get Police certificate for while trying (e.g. a boarding school for grade 10 which no longer exists)
So the best case in such a situation (others might have too) would be to use your permanent address on official correspondence card (NIC) and get a PC from there.
There is nothing wrong with CIC's requirements. The weird part is in Pakistan where they always write address on PCs and they do not have correlation with other police station areas or cities.
Since your permanent address is your documented address in Pakistan and they verified there is no criminal liability, this should serve CIC's primary goal.
Note that address history is only asked for the last 10 years vs PC is asked since the age of 18. So it is possible that one fills both correctly and there is no misrepresentation.
The examples I have seen of others doing this worked and made sense to me (i.e. submitted PC stating permanent home address + mentioning the same in address history even if they worked in another city for a couple years - is just what I know people did and it worked).
I am not in CIC's shoes and am not for a minute trying to say this is officially the best route. It is just a work around when you don't have any other choice.
But meeting their requirements, in a system of a country with different regulations sometimes brings you to make some compromise.
FWIW, when I originally applied for work permit from Pakistan years ago, I got PCs - one from each city and filled those as it is (Submitted 3 PCs for myself and 3 for spouse which only I know how we got), writing an explanation letter along. So there never was/is a misrepresentation.
Of course this does not excuse any one who lived at just 2 addresses to not get two PCs.
But contradicting history with PCs is something that won't fly either. i.e. PC says "Have been living at address x since y" where as address history says address z since y for the same duration. So one should try to do their best.
