will this be taken as Misrespresentation?

[armoured]

Thank you for ur time. I posted the same in the reddit. some people say its misrepresentation. We got so scared . He died in 2024 august and we got to know basically because his brother felt bad for my wife and spread word through acquaintances. The news reached us a week ago and when we contacted her uncle we came to know all of these. the oldest one is apparently 20 years. (my wife is 33 and hasnt lived in the same city as him since she was 5) She has had absolutely no contact with him for 15+ years and before that he made a few visits to see her once in a couple of years for a few hours. This was all clear in the application for work permit. He might have hid the news of the children at that time may be because he was scared of legal repercussions from her mom's family. My wife's uncle is empathetic and even agreed to give the necessary information for the application likes names dob and address. There is no lie from our side . Just worried if IRCC will see it that way

I fully concur with @scylla here. You're overthinking. There's no misrepresentation. You're not the first family that's been estranged and discovered siblings, etc. If you need to explain in a letter of explanation, short and factual - father was estranged, new information is he had children we did not know about, he's since deceased. That's it. Don't need to explain more or the history. Lots of cases here of people indicating they don't know their siblings names addresses ages - anything at all.

Again- it may seem like a big deal, but it's a type of story that goes back several thousand years.

@armoured just one information please. sorry to take more of ur time. she will not likely sponsor her mom. my mother in law wants to live in India. so supervisa in the future is the possibility, does she need her spouse's death certificate for the supervisa process or just the date?

I do not know much about the supervisa requirements. My suggestion again - it would be prudent for her to get it, even if it turns out to be just in case. There are other potnetial situations where it may be needed.

 

[WantToImmigrate]

Hi, so my spouse's father was no contact for more than 15 years. He hasn't lived with them for almost 25 years now. She and her mother didn't have any knowledge of his activities. This information was mentioned in her work permit application, with LOE and pics over the years, including our marriage pics where certain indian rituals are performed by parents are done by her uncle and Aunt, ration card with only her mother and her. We put his address and job were unknown. We recently (March 2025)learned just by chance, through some relatives/acquaintances, that he was deceased in August 2024. After making efforts to contact his family, we learned that he had two more children with another woman, and he was not divorced from my mother-in-law or anything. We plan to include this in the PR application. Will this be taken as misrepresentation as to why we didn't mention in the previous application? We genuinely didn't know, but how could we prove that? she dint try to contact the halfsiblings or nor will she in the future

Disclaimer: I am not an immigration attorney. Follow my advice at your own risk.

You don't know what you don't know bud. Like others said, a letter of explanation should do it.

 

[MSCS21]

I fully concur with @scylla here. You're overthinking. There's no misrepresentation. You're not the first family that's been estranged and discovered siblings, etc. If you need to explain in a letter of explanation, short and factual - father was estranged, new information is he had children we did not know about, he's since deceased. That's it. Don't need to explain more or the history. Lots of cases here of people indicating they don't know their siblings names addresses ages - anything at all.

Again- it may seem like a big deal, but it's a type of story that goes back several thousand years.



I do not know much about the supervisa requirements. My suggestion again - it would be prudent for her to get it, even if it turns out to be just in case. There are other potnetial situations where it may be needed.

We have requested it. I am just gathering information. Thank you

 

[abff08f4813c]

I posted the same in the reddit. some people say its misrepresentation.

Problem is that, that website overall has really gone downhill in the last couple of years. This is in part because of protests against that company which ultimately lead to folks leaving and moving to other forums (such as this one).

Here's an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvicecanada/comments/unhw4c/_/i88pt5a - the original post is gone but basically it was about someone being refused while on an open work permit since the employer required the applicant to have permanent residency to get hired. Everyone on the thread said this was actually legal, without much in the way of justification- but the courts eventually confirmed that it was illegal (see https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/insights/blogs/canadian-employer-advisor/ontario-court-appeal-rules-discriminatory-minimum-holding-permanent-residency-status-hiring-condition )

TLDR; don't ask live questions there because it's full of bad advice nowadays.