You can later request to amend COPR. Takes 6 months. I am in the middle of the process.zorroo said:
Diplomatru, did you ask the border agent to correct this for you? I did a quick research about this. It looks that for a lot of applicants this mistake has happened. border agents have told applicants that this would not be a problem since cic has all of our previous immigration information based on UCI number and in case that in future rules change and they gonna count our previous time living in canada toward the citizenship application, you can claim for it based on your documents including old study permit, work permits and visas.Diplomatru said:
No, I didn't make any requests during landing because SCCA has precluded the pre-landing credit for SP/WP holders, so my original landing date made no difference at that moment. Since the LPC made a promise to reinstate the credit, I applied for correction of COPR with OSC-Ottawa. It's free of charge and I prefer to have a documented case rather than proving something to the Cit. officer in three years.zorroo said:
thank god there are more people. i thought it is only me and fswsunshine lol.lovevancity said:
This is absolutely fine to apply for correction of COPR original date of entry. However keep in your mind that when you apply for citizenship, this original date of entry is useless since you may left canada a week after you original date on entry and came back later. The key point is the proof of documents that you have including study permit, work permit, old passport visas and even the translation of your passport pages which shows when you have been away from canada and when did you come back (e.g, during the vacation or visiting back home).Diplomatru said:
You won't need that. CBSA has all the records of your exits (through airlines passenger manifests and CBP in case of land travel to the U.S.) and entries to Canada. Documented proof is needed only if application is non-routine.zorroo said:
If this is the case, which I agree with it, why does the original date of entry in copr matter? As I said earlier, when you apply for citizenship, you claim all the time which you have been in canada before and after landing and cic based on you UCI no. can evaluate it. So in case that citizenship rules change and we gonna be able to claim for our time stayed in Canada before landing for citizenship, we would be able to earn it regardless of original date of entry in copr (previous experience of members at borders tells us the same thing based on the officers answers).Diplomatru said:
