Misrepresentation Help Wanted!

[Johndino123]

Hello
I applied for new citizenship certificate after my name change. There is column of parents date of marriage and my parents got married in 1978 and I put right date of marriage. I happened to have copy of parents visitor visa application and I saw this week. I realized by mistake consultant wrote 1979 as date of marriage. My parents don’t have marriage certificate. I have not received my AOR yet. Did I made misrepresentation in my file ?

 

[Phalos]

Hello
I applied for new citizenship certificate after my name change. There is column of parents date of marriage and my parents got married in 1978 and I put right date of marriage. I happened to have copy of parents visitor visa application and I saw this week. I realized by mistake consultant wrote 1979 as date of marriage. My parents don’t have marriage certificate. I have not received my AOR yet. Did I made misrepresentation in my file ?

Doubt it

 

[armoured]

Hello
I applied for new citizenship certificate after my name change. There is column of parents date of marriage and my parents got married in 1978 and I put right date of marriage. I happened to have copy of parents visitor visa application and I saw this week. I realized by mistake consultant wrote 1979 as date of marriage. My parents don’t have marriage certificate. I have not received my AOR yet. Did I made misrepresentation in my file ?

It's a typo in an area that doesn't matter for your file. Relax.

The longer explanation is it's neither a material or substantive error either way.

 

[armoured]

For a bit more info: delay in receiving response is most likely normal delay esp in covid time. The typo / contradictory dates have no bearing on your eligibility - in the sense that neither you nor they got any 'benefit' from putting a different date, hence it's not material to either the visitor visa or your citizenship application, nor substantive (nothing would have changed if IRCC had received information with the other date).

If you are worried (as it seems you are), you can submit a letter of explanation - short and factual, parents have no marriage certificate, you put 1978 as you believe that is the correct date, previous visa application may have had a different year due to misunderstanding. Short apology for contradictory information. It may be easiest to state that one of them was a typo or just an error.

But my own guess is that even this letter is unnecessary. It's possible they'd not notice the date difference - and quite possible would just ignore if they did.

(A separate comment that obviously it's not great to have errors, and the more errors, the more likely that IRCC would start to wonder if the information provided is truthful and credible, so it is better to be careful and thorough - but I doubt that a single error in an area that is not central to the application would be seen as more than a typo.)

 

[Johndino123]

Thank you for responses!

 

[Johndino123]

For a bit more info: delay in receiving response is most likely normal delay esp in covid time. The typo / contradictory dates have no bearing on your eligibility - in the sense that neither you nor they got any 'benefit' from putting a different date, hence it's not material to either the visitor visa or your citizenship application, nor substantive (nothing would have changed if IRCC had received information with the other date).

If you are worried (as it seems you are), you can submit a letter of explanation - short and factual, parents have no marriage certificate, you put 1978 as you believe that is the correct date, previous visa application may have had a different year due to misunderstanding. Short apology for contradictory information. It may be easiest to state that one of them was a typo or just an error.

But my own guess is that even this letter is unnecessary. It's possible they'd not notice the date difference - and quite possible would just ignore if they did.

(A separate comment that obviously it's not great to have errors, and the more errors, the more likely that IRCC would start to wonder if the information provided is truthful and credible, so it is better to be careful and thorough - but I doubt that a single error in an area that is not central to the application would be seen as more than a typo.)

Thank you for your response! I am already Canadian citizen from 7 seven years and it was an application for name change on citizenship certificate.

 

[armoured]

Thank you for your response! I am already Canadian citizen from 7 seven years and it was an application for name change on citizenship certificate.

It's probably irrelevant. Good luck.