New requirement to disclose travel history from birth ??

[Sarah1980]

Hello, I am getting really confused about what I read on the CIC website: https://www.cicnews.com/2025/10/wha...medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20251015

On there they said that IRCC confirmed that "The need to include a lifelong travel history, rather than only travel history as an adult or in the five or ten years preceding your application, has been confirmed in recent correspondence between immigration lawyers and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)."

They mention that this applicable to question 13: "Do you currently, or have you ever held immigration or citizenship status in a country or territory other than Canada (this includes your country of birth)?”

They say "While some applicants may mistake immigration status to mean longer-term authorizations, such as study or work permits, the requirement also includes disclosure of visitor status.In the above example, in which a person only visited a country for a few hours as part of a layover, they would likely disclose their status as “visitor” in their application. This would also apply to countries/territories visited as a tourist"

Is this a new change ? This means any country I traveled to, even for a day, since birth, needs to be included (and most of them you would say you were a visitor). This seems completely insane and worse than the PR application but CIC seems like a legit website so really confused about that one.

Does anyone have read or know anything about this ?

 

[armoured]

Hello, I am getting really confused about what I read on the CIC website: https://www.cicnews.com/2025/10/wha...medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-20251015

On there they said that IRCC confirmed that "The need to include a lifelong travel history, rather than only travel history as an adult or in the five or ten years preceding your application, has been confirmed in recent correspondence between immigration lawyers and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)."

They mention that this applicable to question 13: "Do you currently, or have you ever held immigration or citizenship status in a country or territory other than Canada (this includes your country of birth)?”

They say "While some applicants may mistake immigration status to mean longer-term authorizations, such as study or work permits, the requirement also includes disclosure of visitor status.In the above example, in which a person only visited a country for a few hours as part of a layover, they would likely disclose their status as “visitor” in their application. This would also apply to countries/territories visited as a tourist"

Is this a new change ? This means any country I traveled to, even for a day, since birth, needs to be included (and most of them you would say you were a visitor). This seems completely insane and worse than the PR application but CIC seems like a legit website so really confused about that one.

Does anyone have read or know anything about this ?

I can only state this: virtually everyone who applies interprets it in the more restrictive form (i.e. must disclose eg permanent resident status, long-term stays such as longer-term work permits, study permits, and of course citizenship).

1) And I have not seen ANY reports here of IRCC coming back to applicants and asking them to provide all places they visited. It's moronic - they don't even

2) Add to this: going through this with spouse where IRCC requested copies of all pages of passports. Hundreds of pages (lot of travel, specific situation). Did a phone interview with the IRCC agent - who did not once ask for details of 'immigration status' for all the places travelled to. (We did provide some detailed info related to a few stamps because it affected the total days for physical presence).

From these experiences and the LACK of reports that anyone at IRCC asks for all places visited to be disclosed for those (everyone!) who leaves this information out, I interpret that this is how they do things 'in practice.'

What does the CIC website article tell us? IMO: if you ask a question by email or on facebook, without context, you will sometimes get VERY stupid answers. Unless you can be certain that the person responding actually knows what they are talking about - and in this case, I'm convinced that person does not.