Working holiday after overstaying visa

[WillVancouver]

Hi,

I lived in Canada in 2014/15 under the working holiday programme. Due to some bad advice and not putting enough effort myself in to finding out the rules, I believed that I was allowed to stay for 3 months as a tourist after my visa ran out. I ended up staying for 2 months after my visa expired. During this time I didn't work and always intended to return shortly to the UK after some sight seeing. After finding out that I needed to apply for change of status, which I hadn't done, and thus was overstaying my visa, I booked the next reasonably priced flight home and left a week later.

I just received an invitation to apply for the 2016 working holiday visa and I wondered what my chances are of getting denied due to this overstay. Also, I feel like it's always best to be honest and upfront about these things and declare the overstay in my application, however when looking around online several people have said that it would go unnoticed unless I declare it and made it an issue.

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[scylla]

You have to declare your immigration history if asked in the application. If you fail to be fully transparent about your immigration history and CIC finds out - it's a 5 year ban from Canada. Anyone who is telling you otherwise is someone you shouldn't be listening to.

If you are honest you should be fine.

 

[WillVancouver]

Thanks. Has anyone experienced a similar situation?