Different signature on passport and signed form releasing dependent

[inlimbo2012]

Question....

I have applied for my husband through outland sponsorship/residency. We included his son as an accompanying dependent. We got his mother to sign the form allowing him to come to Canada. CIC in Port of Spain, Trinidad notified us last week of our interview on January 17th. The asked us to bring a copy of the dependents mothers information and signature page of her passport. I was told this is to make sure the form releasing him to Canada is not fradulent. Here is the thing....his mother told us only now that she signed a different signature. It was signed in front of a JP BUT would immigration thing the form is fraudulent because the signature does not match the one in her passport. We dont want to end up at the interview and this matter effect the whole application! What do you suggest we do to make sure things are sorted??

Thanks in advance!

 

[canadianwoman]

Since they are asking for the passport signature page, presumably to check the signature against the one allowing the child to go to Canada, they must be planning to check the two are the same.
How are the two signatures different? If she signed one with her full name, and one with only her initial and surname, but otherwise with the same style of writing, I would expect this to be OK. If she used a completely different style of writing, I'd consult a lawyer, first. Maybe if you got her to sign a new letter of permission with the same signature she used in her passport, and then got an affidavit where she explained she had used a different signature for whatever reason the first time, that would be OK.

 

[inlimbo2012]

Hi Canadianwoman!

I have not seen the signatures cause they were sent straight to our immigration consultant (who has not replied to my email.) When we my husbands ex-wife that we needed a copy of her signature page as well as the information page she said that the signatures wont match because she signed them differenlty! She doesnt remember how they were different though...very frusterating!

I was thinking on typing up a letter stating who she is and that she
1. knows of my husbands application
2. that we are bringing her son to Canada
3. that she gives permission for my self and my husband to take her son with us.

Then have her sign her two different signatures and get it stamped by the same JP. Do you think that would work as well? We didnt want to have to send more money for her to go to a lawyer but if thats what is best I guess we will have to do it...and hope that she will do it as well. Its sucks because the one part of this application that was not done by us is causing a problem. Grrrr.

Thanks!

 

[canadianwoman]

An affidavit like that might work. I'd include her explanation of why she used two different signatures in the first place. Though wait until your consultant (or you/your spouse) can take a look at the signatures to see just how different they are.