Undisclosed Marriage for PA
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Yes. While I think useful to check with a lawyer overall, this is time sensitive. Having advised before being notified that government has an issue (eg a procedural fairness letter), there is at least an argument that the mistake was not intentional as advised before caught. (Not necessarily a great one, but much better than without).
That's all well and goos. But IMO you want to send the letter to IRCC asap. Once IRCC has found a misrepresentation and have started the process of moving to a refusal, it can be too late to turn this around even if you notify them before they officially send a communication to you. This is an very serious misrepresentation and it's all that much worse that the marriage wasn't at least declared in the interview. Anyway, obviously your call what you do. Good luck.
The issued with PFLs is that if IRCC has already started putting one together, that ship may have sailed and the PFL may be sent regardless of whether the OP notifies them first or not. IMO the huge miss was in the interview. The fact the officer kept asking the applicant about previous relationships would make me quite concered they already know. Applicant basically doubled down on the misrepresentation in the interview.
I agree. However getting correspondence to IRCC before the PFL is received gives one a better argument that (because one admitted it) there was not intent to deceive. Informing them after you've been accused won't help.
Not sure how much questioning about past relationships was actually done. Will verify if it was deep digging or establishing a baseline for questioning about our relationship.
Ignore that portal for these purposes - assume that the entire process includes checking background. Think of that portal as providing information about database flags (on or off) that do not mean what humans think they mean.
