Express Entry Residence Details

[mblumen]

Hi, I currently live in my home country, but I have lived for almost one year in another country, some years ago.
I understand that I have to provide background documents of both countries, but I have the following three questions.

1. Where in express entry profile (already got ITA) do I have to fill in all my countries of residence? Is it in the address history section?
2. In the country where I lived one year, I had multiple addresses (first hotels, then aparments, then hotels again), should I just declare the one where I stayed most of the time? How much detail do they need?
3. Last question. The background check support documents for my current residence country have to be submitted electronically by myself, while the documents of the country where I lived one year have to be sent directly by a service provider to the embassy.... how should I manage this? How do I let them know that besides my country's background documents, I need to send more through a service provider?

 

[crescent_jam]

Hi, I currently live in my home country, but I have lived for almost one year in another country, some years ago.
I understand that I have to provide background documents of both countries, but I have the following three questions.

1. Where in express entry profile (already got ITA) do I have to fill in all my countries of residence? Is it in the address history section?
Your countries of 'residence' would be captured in your 'Address History' section and your 'Travel History' section. Even though you were resident there (not just visiting), it should still be included under travel history as you were not in your home country (and presumably would have passport stamps to show your entry to the other country and return to your home country).

2. In the country where I lived one year, I had multiple addresses (first hotels, then aparments, then hotels again), should I just declare the one where I stayed most of the time? How much detail do they need?
In my personal opinion, you should declare every address where you've ever lived in the past 10 years under your Address History. Background checks can be fairly exhaustive and you wouldn't want an address to turn up in your check that you didn't report, and give CIC a reason to be suspicious of why you didn't report it.

3. Last question. The background check support documents for my current residence country have to be submitted electronically by myself, while the documents of the country where I lived one year have to be sent directly by a service provider to the embassy.... how should I manage this? How do I let them know that besides my country's background documents, I need to send more through a service provider?
If the specific CIC instructions for one of your countries is to have the PCC sent directly to a service provider to the embassy, I would upload the first PCC (the one you're supposed to submit by yourself) and then, along with it, upload a brief letter on blank white paper, reiterating CIC's instructions for your second country - just to make sure they remember That's what I would do anyway...

Hi mblumen,
I hope I understand your questions correctly. My answers are below them in red.

 

[mblumen]

Hi mblumen,
I hope I understand your questions correctly. My answers are below them in red.

Thank you very much for your reply, it is really helpful!