Misrepresentation Induced Mental Health

[Olaroman]

Is it only me that think Canadian Immigration forms are unnecessarily complex and gives room for misrepresentation?

I applied as a Federal Skilled Worker from Nigeria in 2010, landed in 2013 and became citizen in 2017.
However, I have not lived in peace since I discovered that many information that I filled especially under Forms IMM 0008(01-2009)E Schedule 1(Background Declaration) and IMM 5406 (04-2008) E(Additional Family Information).

What did I fill wrong?
Mother's Family name at birth. I didn't not realize this was the maiden name. So I wrote the married name, that is my father's last name.
Where I was asked to fill my brothers and sisters names, I did a very terrible job without paying full attention to names on their birth certificates.
For example I wrote Oludare as Oluwadare and Adefemi as Adefe. The last one was the most terrible. She has more than four names and I just picked two and only one of those are on his birth certificate. Although we were not living together, but that's should not be an excuse. I was rushing to meet a deadline and because of that I hired an agent in Canada and paid close to $3k. The agent could not help enough to see the error in my Mother's Family name at birth.

My fear now is that my sister wants to come to Canada and our parents names will link us together. I am seriously going through mental torture because I don't know what is going to happen. I have read that IRCC doesn't care about mistakes from negligence, they consider it inexcusable misrepresentation.

What can I do?
Any suggestions that can help, I will appreciate.

 

[iSaidGoodDay]

Is it only me that think Canadian Immigration forms are unnecessarily complex and gives room for misrepresentation?

I applied as a Federal Skilled Worker from Nigeria in 2010, landed in 2013 and became citizen in 2017.
However, I have not lived in peace since I discovered that many information that I filled especially under Forms IMM 0008(01-2009)E Schedule 1(Background Declaration) and IMM 5406 (04-2008) E(Additional Family Information).

What did I fill wrong?
Mother's Family name at birth. I didn't not realize this was the maiden name. So I wrote the married name, that is my father's last name.
Where I was asked to fill my brothers and sisters names, I did a very terrible job without paying full attention to names on their birth certificates.
For example I wrote Oludare as Oluwadare and Adefemi as Adefe. The last one was the most terrible. She has more than four names and I just picked two and only one of those are on his birth certificate. Although we were not living together, but that's should not be an excuse. I was rushing to meet a deadline and because of that I hired an agent in Canada and paid close to $3k. The agent could not help enough to see the error in my Mother's Family name at birth.

My fear now is that my sister wants to come to Canada and our parents names will link us together. I am seriously going through mental torture because I don't know what is going to happen. I have read that IRCC doesn't care about mistakes from negligence, they consider it inexcusable misrepresentation.

What can I do?
Any suggestions that can help, I will appreciate.

Your sister can write the real names, it shouldn't impact her application. I'm not even sure if there's a need to attach a LOE in this case. I'm no lawyer, but what you said isn't misrepresentation as it was never going to impact the outcome of your application.

 

[Olaroman]

Your sister can write the real names, it shouldn't impact her application. I'm not even sure if there's a need to attach a LOE in this case. I'm no lawyer, but what you said isn't misrepresentation as it was never going to impact the outcome of your application.

Thank you for your response.

My point is this.

My last name for example is Adebayo. That's my father's family name.
My mother's family name at birth(maiden name) should not be Adebayo. But I wrote Adebayo.
I don't know how to explain this dumb documentation especially where I wrote my wife's mother's family name at birth correctly.

 

[bellaluna]

Thank you for your response.

My point is this.

My last name for example is Adebayo. That's my father's family name.
My mother's family name at birth(maiden name) should not be Adebayo. But I wrote Adebayo.
I don't know how to explain this dumb documentation especially where I wrote my wife's mother's family name at birth correctly.

Lol. I mixed up my parents’ surnames in one of the forms in their PR application and I never sent a correction. Turned out fine. IRCC is used to human error.

 

[Buletruck]

Is it only me that think Canadian Immigration forms are unnecessarily complex and gives room for misrepresentation?

I applied as a Federal Skilled Worker from Nigeria in 2010, landed in 2013 and became citizen in 2017.
However, I have not lived in peace since I discovered that many information that I filled especially under Forms IMM 0008(01-2009)E Schedule 1(Background Declaration) and IMM 5406 (04-2008) E(Additional Family Information).

What did I fill wrong?
Mother's Family name at birth. I didn't not realize this was the maiden name. So I wrote the married name, that is my father's last name.
Where I was asked to fill my brothers and sisters names, I did a very terrible job without paying full attention to names on their birth certificates.
For example I wrote Oludare as Oluwadare and Adefemi as Adefe. The last one was the most terrible. She has more than four names and I just picked two and only one of those are on his birth certificate. Although we were not living together, but that's should not be an excuse. I was rushing to meet a deadline and because of that I hired an agent in Canada and paid close to $3k. The agent could not help enough to see the error in my Mother's Family name at birth.

My fear now is that my sister wants to come to Canada and our parents names will link us together. I am seriously going through mental torture because I don't know what is going to happen. I have read that IRCC doesn't care about mistakes from negligence, they consider it inexcusable misrepresentation.

What can I do?
Any suggestions that can help, I will appreciate.

So, hopefully to aleiviate some of your stress, misrepresentation is information that would cause IRCC to make a determination in error of the actual facts. Missing or incorrect names are unlikely to have changed the outcome of your application. Hence, no misrepresentation and not intentional. Might cause some difficulty for family members in the future, but innocent misrepresentation is an actual thing. Wouldn't sweat it.