Why wasn't IMM5562 on my checklist?

[PaperLantern]

I saw some people mention a travel history form called IMM 5562 but it wasn't in my list of forms I had to fill out. If it helps, my wife is a US citizen. I'm not sure why this wasn't required of us.

I mentioned trips we took in our relationship letter but we didn't put them in section 6 of the background declaration because we thought they were just interested in her work history and if she took long trips. But, the trips we took were to Cancun, Punta Cana, and Cuba. We were only gone for a week or less to sit on the beach and then she returned to her job so she wasn't unemployed during these times. Should we have mentioned these in the personal history section? Or is just mentioning them in the relationship statement and in the pictures we provided enough? Thank you!

 

[Hurlabrick]

I saw some people mention a travel history form called IMM 5562 but it wasn't in my list of forms I had to fill out. If it helps, my wife is a US citizen. I'm not sure why this wasn't required of us.

I mentioned trips we took in our relationship letter but we didn't put them in section 6 of the background declaration because we thought they were just interested in her work history and if she took long trips. But, the trips we took were to Cancun, Punta Cana, and Cuba. We were only gone for a week or less to sit on the beach and then she returned to her job so she wasn't unemployed during these times. Should we have mentioned these in the personal history section? Or is just mentioning them in the relationship statement and in the pictures we provided enough? Thank you!

IF they didn't ask for it on the checklist, then they don't want it up front (checklists are specific to the country of the PA). We were / are a UK / Canadian couple and our UK checklist did NOT ask for it (so of course we didn't send one in), nor was it asked for at any time.

There was a note on our checklist at the end under 'Other Documentation' that said 'Persons submitting their application to the Canadian visa office in Paris must complete the attached IMM 5562 form'. But as we would be processed by either London or Mississauga, that clearly did not apply.

Don't worry about it, you are fine.

 

[PaperLantern]

IF they didn't ask for it on the checklist, then they don't want it up front (checklists are specific to the country of the PA). We were / are a UK / Canadian couple and our UK checklist did NOT ask for it (so of course we didn't send one in), nor was it asked for at any time.

There was a note on our checklist at the end under 'Other Documentation' that said 'Persons submitting their application to the Canadian visa office in Paris must complete the attached IMM 5562 form'. But as we would be processed by either London or Mississauga, that clearly did not apply.

Don't worry about it, you are fine.

Ok perfect! So is it an issue that we didn't mention our short vacations under section 6 of the Background Declaration where they ask for personal history? We honestly thought they just meant work or unemployment, not personal vacations.

 

[Hurlabrick]

Ok perfect! So is it an issue that we didn't mention our short vacations under section 6 of the Background Declaration where they ask for personal history? We honestly thought they just meant work or unemployment, not personal vacations.

IMM5669 Section 6 is all about your employment history. Note that the wording says:

'Under activity type, rite your occupation or job title IF YOU WERE WORKING.' (my Capitals).

It then goes on to say 'IF YOU WERE NOT WORKING.....' I(my Capitals). So this bit only applies IF YOU WERE NOT WORKING (i.e. employed etc.).

So for example, if you were 'employed in a job from say 1986 to 1994 by one employer, that is one row. If, while you were employed in this period you went on holiday to Cuba for two weeks in 1990, then you do not mention this.

BUT, if you were employed from 1986 to 1990, then while taking a break / sabbatical from employment for a few months and went to Cuba, then that would be a separate row with 'travelling' in it.

Make sense??

 

[PaperLantern]

IMM5669 Section 6 is all about your employment history. Note that the wording says:

'Under activity type, rite your occupation or job title IF YOU WERE WORKING.' (my Capitals).

It then goes on to say 'IF YOU WERE NOT WORKING.....' I(my Capitals). So this bit only applies IF YOU WERE NOT WORKING (i.e. employed etc.).

So for example, if you were 'employed in a job from say 1986 to 1994 by one employer, that is one row. If, while you were employed in this period you went on holiday to Cuba for two weeks in 1990, then you do not mention this.

BUT, if you were employed from 1986 to 1990, then while taking a break / sabbatical from employment for a few months and went to Cuba, then that would be a separate row with 'travelling' in it.

Make sense??

Yes! That makes loads of sense. Honestly, that's what I thought when I originally read it but I was talking to a friend who sponsored her husband years ago and she said that basically I misrepresented by not mentioning my short trips to the Caribbean. Your explanation makes more sense than hers did, lol. Thank you. I apologize for all the questions. Since I sent in I've been consumed with an overwhelming fear of having missed something and being charged with misrepresentation. Logically, I know that's probably not the case and that if anything is missing they'll just ask for it but anxiety is rarely logical.

 

[Hurlabrick]

Yes! That makes loads of sense. Honestly, that's what I thought when I originally read it but I was talking to a friend who sponsored her husband years ago and she said that basically I misrepresented by not mentioning my short trips to the Caribbean. Your explanation makes more sense than hers did, lol. Thank you. I apologize for all the questions. Since I sent in I've been consumed with an overwhelming fear of having missed something and being charged with misrepresentation. Logically, I know that's probably not the case and that if anything is missing they'll just ask for it but anxiety is rarely logical.

I understand exactly how you feel, we did too. The people who worry most about things like this are normally the people who in reality have the least to worry about!

If you read the question carefully, like it was computer code, then that is what they are after:

IF 'working' (i.e. employed, self-employed, contracting etc.)

THEN...…

ELSE...…. (travelling, unemployed, further education etc.)

END IF!!!

 

[PaperLantern]

I understand exactly how you feel, we did too. The people who worry most about things like this are normally the people who in reality have the least to worry about!

If you read the question carefully, like it was computer code, then that is what they are after:

IF 'working' (i.e. employed, self-employed, contracting etc.)

THEN...…

ELSE...…. (travelling, unemployed, further education etc.)

END IF!!!

Glad I'm not the only one who has experienced this level of anxiety and uncertainty. Hopefully it doesn't last the whole 12 months that this process might take. Also, it does help to read it like computer code. As an english professor you'd think I would have better reading comprehension when it comes to this stuff. Once AOR1 comes in I'm probably going to end up sending an updated Background declaration anyway since we totally forgot to mention a home-care job my wife had for a couple of months when she first moved from her hometown to mine. Thanks for patiently explaining this to me. I really appreciate your help!

 

[Hurlabrick]

As an english professor you'd think I would have better reading comprehension when it comes to this stuff.

LOL a lot!!! (PS English! )

Once AOR1 comes in I'm probably going to end up sending an updated Background declaration anyway since we totally forgot to mention a home-care job my wife had for a couple of months when she first moved from her hometown to mine

I really wouldn't bother! My wife also forgot a job or two early in her working life and we found we had accidentally joined up dates (i.e. there were no gaps, she just forgot that she worked for 3 months at x or whatever). Not a biggie!

 

[PaperLantern]

LOL a lot!!! (PS English! )



I really wouldn't bother! My wife also forgot a job or two early in her working life and we found we had accidentally joined up dates (i.e. there were no gaps, she just forgot that she worked for 3 months at x or whatever). Not a biggie!

Huh, I wonder if it's because employment stuff isn't that important for spousal sponsorship. I would have thought that something like that would have big consequences. That's very interesting. I guess the important stuff is probably criminal record and having been denied entry. We were honest about both those things. She had been charged with shoplifting in the USA at 18 and we got permanent rehabilitation for that and she was told to sign a withdrawal of entry at the Canadian border once because the agent wasn't satisfied that she wasn't living in Canada with me. I guess we really have nothing to worry about, then. You've saved me a few months worth of headaches.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I saw some people mention a travel history form called IMM 5562 but it wasn't in my list of forms I had to fill out. If it helps, my wife is a US citizen. I'm not sure why this wasn't required of us.

I mentioned trips we took in our relationship letter but we didn't put them in section 6 of the background declaration because we thought they were just interested in her work history and if she took long trips. But, the trips we took were to Cancun, Punta Cana, and Cuba. We were only gone for a week or less to sit on the beach and then she returned to her job so she wasn't unemployed during these times. Should we have mentioned these in the personal history section? Or is just mentioning them in the relationship statement and in the pictures we provided enough? Thank you!

Dude. Honestly, take my advice from one of your many other worried threads and step back from the app and the forum for awhile. You really are just causing yourself, and probably your spouse, more stress and worry.

 

[np08]

Dude. Honestly, take my advice from one of your many other worried threads and step back from the app and the forum for awhile. You really are just causing yourself, and probably your spouse, more stress and worry.

Seriously.

@PaperLantern your case is pretty straight forward (except for the shoplifting thing that you've dealt with) and you've covered all of your bases, and most probably went above and beyond in some ways in terms of requirements and explanations and all that. You have nothing to stress over. Thousands upon thousands of applications are successfully completed every year, not to mention that your case is CA-US and Americans tend to have it pretty simple and fast.

Misrepresentation isn't some shady boogey man jumping out of every page of an application, and forgetting a job here or a short vacation there won't have some catastrophic consequences for your application.

Just breathe. Relax. Go do other stuff.