We just didn't mention it. Won't hurt to do an LOE that you didn't include it because it hasn't been used in the period or whatever your expalnation is.
April 2025 - Citizenship Applications
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Info-sharing: yes, Oz will be able to get access to (likely anyway) Five Eyes (Can/US/UK/Aus/NZ) records, question is how quickly and whether an average border control office will be able to do this on-the-spot/immediately or through extra steps, etc. My assumption is it's not so immediate for line officers - I could be wrong.
Obviously quesiton of how complete those records actually are - well, if no records, there's no records. So of course absurd to claim 'all travels everywhere anytime.' But it could be quite complete - as noted, more complete w/r/t travels inside and out of Oz (and probably NZ). And sure, access to some airline info - but again, not going to be all.
Perhaps there are other ones they have access to fairly easily (eg some EU/NATO? when needed anyway). But lots of concentric/overlapping circles and some that don't overlap at all.
Thanks so much, I used an app called CamScanner. God bless AI technology. Not perfect but it does a good job and is easy to use, plus if you forgot to scan pages (I skipped over several) you can add them and re-order them on the app. Life saver.
Ahhh okay thanks for telling. I chose to get them translated as I prefer to comply with what is exactly asked in an immigration request. I found a very useful website - Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario https://atio.on.ca/
I used the search tool to find translation specialists and they did such a good job for just $20-$40 per set of stamps.
You're right my Russian stamp also has the arrow and rectangle. It is so idiotic of IRCC to even ask. What is even the point? Its clearly and entry and exit stamp. Does one need to be a genius to work it out? I get it if its for a birth certificate, college transcript... but a stamp? Fkn use your own translation tool if you need to!!!
Question, does an "Overseas Citizenship of India" OCI card count as a travel document of any sort? I also noticed this is glued to my old passport, but from what I understand, you cannot travel with it (you can only enter India with it).
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I think some of the laws may simply be out of date. Remember that ChatGPT is only two and a half years old at this point. Meanwhile, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the law behind this requirement - that the text was last updated in the aughts, if not even earlier.
In fairness, and in a time without adequate automated translation tools, there are stamps from countries that are harder to read. E.g. Stamps from PRC (China) have no latin letters on them at all except to spell out "CHINA", and no arrows either. The date at least is in Arabic numerals, but you need to be able to read hanzi in order to understand anything else it says (including if it's an entry or an exit stamp).
Travel documents stand on their own - you can enter on it, and usually they look like a passport booklet. I'm not familiar with OCI specifically but from what I'm reading online about it ( e.g. https://www.airindia.com/in/en/trav...ents/oci-cardholders-travelling-to-india.html ) it seems like it's like a Canadian PR card - you need to present both the card and your passport to fly on it, the card alone won't work.
That makes me believe that it is more akin to a PR status or visa document than a travel document.
What do you mean by “some BG results came back but not all”? You mean some had updated and some will be updated soon on the tracker!!
That's good to know actually. You should put a review of a specific one up here. Once when I looked into it, was going to cost a lot of money (gratned also a hell of a lot of stamps), hence why I was a bit cheap.
...But also because the vast majority of stamps were this 'European' style (which all of ex-USSR use as well, so Central Asia, too, plus some others), which is so very obvious. (Then some US/Canada plus a few random other places, but most had English or French or Spanish - which again, in my experience, IRCC doesn't worry about except for official docs).
And to be fair to IRCC - even though they have these strict written requirements - they never actually asked us to translate any of these (when we submitted the scans with the PR app and then citizenship).
So overall I agree with @abff08f4813c - they do write the rules more strictly than they seem to apply them in practice. I'm sure - for example - none of the visa offices in Latin America will make you get translations of simple docs (in practice); and I know the regional offices that deal with Russian apps (ex-USSR too) have staff that can read/decipher basic stuff.
As always - YMMV; it's the responsbility of the applicant and they can ask you to get anything translated. But in practice, it's not quite as strict as the regs (except for truly 'official' docs).
My understanding would be as @abff08f4813c put it - if it's a card that has to be used with a passport, no good standalone, it's not a travel doc. IMO.
Cheers, I've sent it off to IRCC with the translated stamps and an LOE explaining the oversight in not including the older passport. Nothing I can do but wait!
I had a tracker update on December 19. However, there was nothing other than a date change. I called IRCC to check if my BG was done, however it is still in progress. I asked why there was a date change without anything done, they said the officer opened the file and checked it!! On a WhatsApp group, some members had the same ghost update, but received their BG done today morning. As such, it could either be a tracker delay that the agent is not seeing, or a ghost update that only triggered a date change due to internal checks. Let see, waiting is a virtue
I got a ghost update on Aug 30, called IRCC, agent said some BG results are back but not all. Until now my BG is still not done yet.I had a tracker update on December 19. However, there was nothing other than a date change. I called IRCC to check if my BG was done, however it is still in progress. I asked why there was a date change without anything done, they said the officer opened the file and checked it!! On a WhatsApp group, some members had the same ghost update, but received their BG done today morning. As such, it could either be a tracker delay that the agent is not seeing, or a ghost update that only triggered a date change due to internal checks. Let see, waiting is a virtue
I think the criminal phase is done on your side and left is security. They told me a while back am in security screening phase. One person I know got his BG after 48 hours of his AOR!! I don’t know why it is taking time for others. Anyway the only thing to do is wait. Hopefully it gets cleared soon for all those waiting.
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