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I forgot whether I had mentioned in previous application, a few period of 5 days/a week in between jobs as unemployment.
Never longer than a week. Are these required for question 11 of the citizenship application?
@dpenabill
This is up to you and your best judgment.
Personally I would not specify short periods between jobs as a period of unemployment, but use my best judgment (based on the particular circumstances) to report the end date and the next day as start date for the next job.
But I should note I did not have to personally make such decisions since I was self-employed, running the same business (in effect working remotely, out of my home, compared to where I delivered the product of my services) for years prior to applying for PR and continued that same business just at my new Canadian address right up to applying for citizenship and, actually, am still running that same business (but now just a third or so of what I was doing before I reached retirement age a decade plus ago). Moreover, when I applied for PR and for citizenship (well over a decade ago now), the forms only asked for month and year dates, not specific days of the month.
Explanatory observations:
The application is not a test.
In answering questions applicants need to use their own best judgment, based on their best understanding of what is asked and what is both an accurate and honest response (noting that yes, information can be both accurate and not honest; best to not go there) based on their personal understanding of the question (avoiding any self-serving understanding, a tendency we all have, some more than others) and their particular circumstances.
For many questions there is only one correct answer, like name, date of birth, client identification number, and such.
For many other questions the facts often do not fit the particular parameters of the question so neatly, so precisely.
Like Q-5 (pdf version of application) asking for nicknames -- no, if your parents called you boo-boo when you were a baby, it is OK to not report that
Like Q-8 asking if someone is helping you fill out this form, which the instructions specifically say to include help from family or friends -- OK to not report you got help from this forum or even from your spouse (but the latter depending on the nature and extent of the help)
Like Q-13 asking the applicant to disclose ALL immigration status in any and all countries (including citizenship in country of birth, including visitor status) -- a little more difficult to generally describe what should be OK to not report, but contrary to some online information (which says the applicant must report even transiting countries all the way back to birth) it is probably (lots of emphasis on probably) OK to not report transiting countries before the issuance of passports which can be examined (so, yeah, if there is a visa stamp or such in a passport that could be examined, that's a big clue it would be better to disclose whatever status was obtained attendant that) . . . this question, in particular, illustrates that the applicant needs to use their discretion and best personal judgment . . . noting that what gets by for some, even for many, may not work for others.
And depending on the particular circumstances in the individual's personal situation, some aspects of information to be disclosed in the address and work history questions do not fit neatly into precise day dates. So the individual applicant needs to use their discretion and best personal judgment, focusing on being honest as well as accurate. It is not a test.
