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Same here, and my medical was fine - they didn't even mention the fact I was overweight or my poor vision! :)

I only included my very closest friends (total of 9) and closest/immediate family members (e.g. parents, siblings) rather than listing everybody. Where I couldn't remember the specific date, I put the month and year and included an explanatory note that I couldn't remember the specific date but...

I'm in the UK, so when I left school I didn't have a single high school diploma, I had several individual GCSE certificates - one for each subject that I had studied. When I went on to College, I did three A-Levels, which resulted in another three separate certificates. On the Background...

I've got a similar issue - there was a period when I was in Canada for several months but moving around quite a lot between friends' houses and staying at a hotel until my partner and I got properly settled at a place of our own. I'm putting down all the addresses (including the hotel) and...

Having learnt so much after lurking on these forums for several years before just now sorting my application for PR, I thought completing the forms would be a lot more straightforward than it is currently proving! I'm afraid I have another question... Long before we got married, there was a...

Thank you both so much, that's really helpful.

Yes I did. Thank you for helping me think of it that way, that is really helpful! Does this mean that I should only write down the "major" events in my personal history? For example: - I was a full-time student for three years at University, but worked part-time jobs (including a summer...

I'm currently piecing together the Personal History section from the "Schedule A - Background Declaration" Form but I'm a little confused about it and was hoping for a little guidance, please. For the last ten years I have been working at the same company, so on the form this would look like...

Thank you both, that's really helpful. I will err on the side of caution and list them in the siblings section of the form - better safe than sorry! :)

After what feels like a lifetime of planning to do this "some day", my Canadian husband and I are finally going to be submitting my PR application this summer. We currently live together in the UK. Having looked at the forms, I have a couple of queries that I was hoping to get some advice on...

Thank you! That's really helpful.

On the Background Declaration form, there is the question: "Have you ever had any serious disease or physical or mental disorder?" Five years ago, I had a bout of Mumps. Mumps was treated very seriously by doctors here in the UK - it is classed as a "notifiable disease", meaning the doctor had...

Thank you so much for the responses everyone. Sounds like things are pretty much as I suspected - that we should get our finances better sorted before we apply. Appreciate you all helping :)

I'm British and my husband is Canadian. We've been romantically involved for 15 years and married for the last 7 of those years. We've been living together in the UK for the last 9 years but our intention is to move permanently to Canada. Apart from a short overstay on a tourist visa ten years...

Oh that makes sense! This immigration stuff is so overwhelming, sometimes it's hard to see the simple solutions to things, haha. Thank you!