eTA Amendment possibility

[annamarkou]

Situation:

1) Currently in Canada on an eTA, possibly considering an IEC working holiday visa.

2) Have been previously denied a study visa permit in U.S approx 4 years ago.

3) Did not mention that on Canadian eTA as the thought was at the time that it pertained to immigrant visas, which was a mistake on my part of course.

Questions:

1) Will mentioning the U.S denial on the future IEC working holiday application present an issue?

2) Is it possible to amend (via CSE) the currently active eTA to reflect my previous denial? And should I go through the effort?

Thank you very, very much in advance!

 

[zardoz]

Situation:

1) Currently in Canada on an eTA, possibly considering an IEC working holiday visa.

2) Have been previously denied a study visa permit in U.S approx 4 years ago.

3) Did not mention that on Canadian eTA as the thought was at the time that it pertained to immigrant visas, which was a mistake on my part of course.

Questions:

1) Will mentioning the U.S denial on the future IEC working holiday application present an issue?

2) Is it possible to amend (via CSE) the currently active eTA to reflect my previous denial? And should I go through the effort?

Thank you very, very much in advance!

1) it may do, but you are obligated to mention it regardless.
2) not via any mechanism that I am aware of. You have already made the misrepresentation, and gained an approved eTA as a result. The damage, if any, is already done.

 

[annamarkou]

Thank you for the quick response!

On your 2nd answer, I did locate something called an IRCC webform (https://secure.cic.gc.ca/enquiries-renseignements/canada-case-cas-eng.aspx) which did include an option for making a Case Specific Enquiry on an eTA, can I use that to explain my situation in your opinion?

I also noticed that the replies for my kind of enquiry on that form takes 6 months which means that it my IEC might overlap it.

 

[zardoz]

Thank you for the quick response!

On your 2nd answer, I did locate something called an IRCC webform (https://secure.cic.gc.ca/enquiries-renseignements/canada-case-cas-eng.aspx) which did include an option for making a Case Specific Enquiry on an eTA, can I use that to explain my situation in your opinion?

I also noticed that the replies for my kind of enquiry on that form takes 6 months which means that it my IEC might overlap it.

I think that the issue is that the eTA has already been approved. I'm not sure that a CSE would be able to alter any of the application responses, apart from "Oops, my bad".

 

[annamarkou]

I see, some nail biting will ensue, thank you very much!