QUESTION RELATED TO WHERE YOU HAVE LIVED SINCE 18

[HoneyBird]

I was just reading another thread where the person lied about being in another country. And it got me thinking...

I know there is a question related to where you have lived since 18.
Well I put my parents address.
And thats exactly true. Cause I went to University and I had an apartment but I would go home to my parents for the summer break/christmas/easter and on weekends. So roughly i would spend 5 months at my parents and 7 months at the school house. After school was finished, i lived full time for a year with the parents and then I got into to do my Masters at the University and I got an apartment again. This time i was working but again I only used it for school and work and basically went home to my parents every weekend. With traffic if i stayed at my parents full time it would take 2 hours to drive to work on mornings and 2 hours to drive back (4 hours) whilst the university apartment just took like 30 mins.

SO i have lived all my life in one Country. But I had an apartment in addition to my room in my parents home. And all my phone bills, all my national id card, drivers permit, bank statements, land statements are all for my parents address. Thats the only address that I have ever declared even for workplace information.

SO will this be a problem? Was I supposed to put every place I lived in? although it was not even considered an apartment but like dorms or stuff. ? I still have the apartment.


If i am found out, will i get 2 years misrepresentation?

 

[CharlieD10]

In my case, I lived many places in since I was 18, including a stint for 15 months in the US, but all the places I lived in Jamaica, I resided for years at a time. For me, it was necessary to break down all those years spent moving around Jamaica, because I had different jobs, different employers, and different addresses, even though I still used my mother's home as my main address for anything official. (To this day, it is still the address I use).

In the other thread though, the other individual resided in a whole other country for more than 6 months, and did not get the required police clearance, and did not present this information at all. This is far different from summarizing a situation where you live in the same country, but maintain another address for convenience sake, as in your case.

 

[lynw]

I was just reading another thread where the person lied about being in another country. And it got me thinking...

I know there is a question related to where you have lived since 18.
Well I put my parents address.
And thats exactly true. Cause I went to University and I had an apartment but I would go home to my parents for the summer break/christmas/easter and on weekends. So roughly i would spend 5 months at my parents and 7 months at the school house. After school was finished, i lived full time for a year with the parents and then I got into to do my Masters at the University and I got an apartment again. This time i was working but again I only used it for school and work and basically went home to my parents every weekend. With traffic if i stayed at my parents full time it would take 2 hours to drive to work on mornings and 2 hours to drive back (4 hours) whilst the university apartment just took like 30 mins.

SO i have lived all my life in one Country. But I had an apartment in addition to my room in my parents home. And all my phone bills, all my national id card, drivers permit, bank statements, land statements are all for my parents address. Thats the only address that I have ever declared even for workplace information.

SO will this be a problem? Was I supposed to put every place I lived in? although it was not even considered an apartment but like dorms or stuff. ? I still have the apartment.


If i am found out, will i get 2 years misrepresentation?

This seems very different from deliberately lying about a whole section of your life to avoid a police report.

I hope VOs understand that people's lives are not 100% tidy and linear, and understand that the honest ones amongst us try and represent the facts as best they can.

 

[MandiF]

I lived in Australia until I was 21 and moved to the UK and I can't even remember the address of some of the places I lived for 6 months or so when I was 18 or 19, I think I moved something like 10 or 11 times between 17 and 21 and have no idea the addresses.

I am going to put the last place I lived in Australia before I came to UK and also a generic address that I lived at during that time and hope that is enough. Its not that I'm trying to hide anything, just that I can't give them the information they need.

 

[YorkFactory]

I had to explain on a separate sheet of paper (because it was so complicated) about the places I'd lived. I included my permanent abodes (with my parents, and later with my sponsor), but also included every single dorm room I lived in while I was at university. I was advised to get a police check from the state where the university is, despite never having had a primary residence there, because CIC would consider me to have lived there.

 

[canadianwoman]

I was just reading another thread where the person lied about being in another country. And it got me thinking...

I know there is a question related to where you have lived since 18.
Well I put my parents address.
And thats exactly true. Cause I went to University and I had an apartment but I would go home to my parents for the summer break/christmas/easter and on weekends. So roughly i would spend 5 months at my parents and 7 months at the school house. After school was finished, i lived full time for a year with the parents and then I got into to do my Masters at the University and I got an apartment again. This time i was working but again I only used it for school and work and basically went home to my parents every weekend. With traffic if i stayed at my parents full time it would take 2 hours to drive to work on mornings and 2 hours to drive back (4 hours) whilst the university apartment just took like 30 mins.

SO i have lived all my life in one Country. But I had an apartment in addition to my room in my parents home. And all my phone bills, all my national id card, drivers permit, bank statements, land statements are all for my parents address. Thats the only address that I have ever declared even for workplace information.

SO will this be a problem? Was I supposed to put every place I lived in? although it was not even considered an apartment but like dorms or stuff. ? I still have the apartment.


If i am found out, will i get 2 years misrepresentation?

I think you should have listed both apartments. You can always attach an extra sheet of paper with an explanation when the answer is too long or complicated to fit in their answer boxes. You could have explained it as you did here. Now I'd just wait - they may never bring it up; if they mention it at the interview, just explain it as you did here.

I lived for 4 years in two countries that did not have street names and addresses. I didn't ever know what the official postal address was of the places I stayed at in Korea. I just explained this on the forms, and it was never an issue.

 

[elkan]

My partner had a tough time with this question. He has lived in 49 different residences since he was 18 because of University, moving states, etc... It took him a couple of weeks but he got most of his addresses. For some he had to guess the apartment number or house number but got the street names. He went as far as paying for a background check on line to get some of his addresses. The best address was a research station in Antarctica. There was no street just a code for the dorm he stayed in.

I noticed that there has been a lot of talk about police checks. My partner stayed in Poland for 6 months. I thought I read that if you have lived anywhere for longer than 6 months you were required to get a police check? We have already submitted our forms, should we have gotten a police check from Poland? He's got a particularly odd application, as he's been a world traveler the last 4-5 years.

As well, I noticed some people mentioning that they got police checks from their home states, or states where they resided. Was that required as well? I thought it was just an FBI check?

 

[elkan]

He also had a couple 11 month stints in Antarctica, but there is no governing body. So we didn't get a police check their either. He was working for a US Government Research Station. Thoughts?

 

[canadianwoman]

I'm guessing that if the visa officer wants a police check from Antarctica, he/she will ask for one. You can then explain.
As for the Poland one - if the stay was just under 6 months, you don't need it; if it was 6 months or over, you do. They'll request it if they decide they need it.

 

[waitingintz]

My partner had a long list of places he had lived and we spent hours going through the whole long list and had several places we had to guess at because there are no proper addresses in the area but I think it's important to at least show that you made the effort.

As for the police checks: like canadianwoman said, anywhere you've lived over 6 months. Some of the checks take a LONG time to get so I would suggest you immediately start working on getting it so you've got it if they ask. We didn't want to hold up the entire application waiting for the checks so submitted without and noted that the Police Checks were pending. We will have them all ready (hopefully!) to send in when we get our AOR.

 

[HoneyBird]

okay well if i get an interview, i would just explain. Maybe it will come up maybe it wont. And hopefully it won't!

 

[Stumpedmom]

I called CIC about this as my husband moved around a lot because he was in the Marines. They told me that he had to put the physical address of every place he resided including when he was overseas, even when all he did was leave the base for 3 months of training. It was a huge pain for him to go back that far and figure it all out!!!

 

[Dayanara]

My hubby and I had a hard time with that as well. He is only 28, but in that 10 years we had about 40 different entries for where he lived, mostly because of school, going home for summers, switching schools, leaving school, working, doing work placements in other states, going back home, back to school, etc etc. Sadly he did not keep all mailing info to his parents place or we would have done the same thing, he changed his address every time he moved (for some odd reason).

Between that and his work history...oy...that took over a week to compile and make sure everything matched up properly. Even after all that we messed up and our lawyer caught the errors thankfully, but it then took another day or two to figure out the corrections.

I can only imagine how it might be for people who are older in their 30's, 40's or even 50's and moved like my hubby did.