Spelling mistake in Passport

[kunaljathar]

Hello,

I am currently in process of collecting documents for my wife as an outland applicant. We came to notice that there is spelling mistake in the surnames of her father and mother in the last page of the Passport but her details on the first page are correct.

So we applied for a reissue of the passport to change her middle name, surname as to match mine, add me as a spouse in the passport and rectifying the spelling mistake in her parents details. However the officer at the passport office said that they can
change/ rectify everything except the mistake as the mistake is on the birth certificate/ school leaving itself.

Now I am wondering as to how this will impact our outland application. Would a letter of explanation suffice in this case? Also has anyone faced a similar issue.

Thank You

 

[armoured]

Yes, suggest include a letter of explanation. When you say it is also on birth and leaving certificates, you are referring to her birth and leaving certificates? Are you submitting copies of those documents too?

You also don't know which country this is - I presume all these documents are in English, are they also in other languages/alphabets (more than one language)? Is it fair to say that the difference is attributable (even partly) to transliteration issues?

If so, suggest you mention this - i.e. the different spelling is partly a transliteration issue.

Note, I shouldn't think Canadian authorities care at all about this, except to extent it could indicate possible document issues (i.e. potential document fraud), or make the security/background check more difficult.

If this type of error (especially transliteration) is not rare in the country in question, the letter of explanation would likely suffice.

(I believe embassies are familiar with these issues - it's not uncommon in rendering names from arabic, cyrillic and other alphabets).

 

[kunaljathar]

Hi,

Thank You for your response.

My wife received her passport. Apparently they corrected all the mistakes in her passport based on the online application form details. I would say we got lucky.

We are from India and all the documents are in English.

I have another question. We are going to apply for her TRV before applying for the outland visa. In case if she gets the TRV, will she be able to travel to Canada for brief period e.g 2 weeks during her outland application is in process.

We have all the necessary supporting documents such as assets in India, stable job etc suggesting that the visit is genuine, so I am optimistic about her TRV. However there is no concrete information stating the rules of travel for prinicipal application during ongoing process.

Thank You.

 

[armoured]

I have another question. We are going to apply for her TRV before applying for the outland visa. In case if she gets the TRV, will she be able to travel to Canada for brief period e.g 2 weeks during her outland application is in process.

Congrats on getting the spelling corrected.

If she has a valid visa, she can travel to Canada during the outland application process.

Note that formally under Canadian entry regs, anyone can be turned down at the border even if they have a visa (or visiting from visa-free country) - notably if, for example, the officer believes they will overstay or the stated purpose of entry/visit is false.

In practice, they may ask to see things like return tickets etc. Most important would be to not lie about anything - she should assume, for example, that they have info on her PR application. Also just to flag - she may have to go to secondary screening, where they do more detailed checks if they feel necessary; that's not necessarily a problem, it just means they wish to check and will take more time.

(My spouse has a visa and had a Canadian visa before we applied - before in fact we decided to apply - but had also visited Canada numerous times in previous years. In fact has to go to secondary screening every time, because previously had immigration status and so is flagged in the system).