Signing Forms/Dates

[araleith]

I am sponsoring my American husband, and we finally have all the documents we need. Due to various changes to the forms and the instructions, some of our forms were signed/dated back in January, some were signed/dated a couple weeks ago.

Do you think it will be a problem that we did the forms at various times? We kept having to update forms as they changed because a few things delayed us from sending it in when we signed the forms originally back in January.

 

[monkeys89]

I don't believe it's an issue. You could always redo them and re-sign them to a common date, unless he's in the US, I suppose.

 

[np08]

We signed a lot of ours in early January, but ended up delaying til February and adjusting a couple of them. We just reprinted them (and revalidated for those that need to be) and put a common February date on all of them, for our own peace of mind.

 

[1887CAN]

Signing the forms at different dates and times won’t make any difference. By all means reprint and sign at the same time, but it shouldn’t be necessary at all.

My forms were all printed and signed over a fairly lengthy span, in that time documents and forms were revised and had to be recompleted, and of course re-signed.

I had my whole PR application package accepted and my OWP application approved. All with forms signed on different dates. If there is ever a question of why from IRCC further into processing, I’ll tell them that as they suggested in the guides, we took our time to compete the application, we stared it early, and double checked everything multiple times. Sometimes we had to re-do a form because we made a mistake, sometimes because you (IRCC) amended forms. Either way, there’s your explanation.

There’s nothing nefarious at play, and nothing to be concerned about, just because you completed forms on different days, weeks, or months. As long as they’re signed and dated (there’s a whole page dedicated to double checking signatures on the checklist), they wont care.

One of the last bits of advice they give you on guide, is to ensure that you’re using the most up to dates forms, before you submit. If for example they amended one form from the whole package, is it reasonable to expect you to reprint every form again just so the signatures match? That’d be ridiculous. They would also, you would hope, actually implicitly state that all forms submitted should be signed and dated on the same day, if it was actually a rule. They offer many direct instructions during this process, they return entire application packages for not following said instructions. Signing all forms at the same time isn’t one of them!

 

[np08]

Signing the forms at different dates and times won’t make any difference. By all means reprint and sign at the same time, but it shouldn’t be necessary at all.

My forms were all printed and signed over a fairly lengthy span, in that time documents and forms were revised and had to be recompleted, and of course re-signed.

I had my whole PR application package accepted and my OWP application approved. All with forms signed on different dates. If there is ever a question of why from IRCC further into processing, I’ll tell them that as they suggested in the guides, we took our time to compete the application, we stared it early, and double checked everything multiple times. Sometimes we had to re-do a form because we made a mistake, sometimes because you (IRCC) amended forms. Either way, there’s your explanation.

There’s nothing nefarious at play, and nothing to be concerned about, just because you completed forms on different days, weeks, or months. As long as they’re signed and dated (there’s a whole page dedicated to double checking signatures on the checklist), they wont care.

One of the last bits of advice they give you on guide, is to ensure that you’re using the most up to dates forms, before you submit. If for example they amended one form from the whole package, is it reasonable to expect you to reprint every form again just so the signatures match? That’d be ridiculous. They would also, you would hope, actually implicitly state that all forms submitted should be signed and dated on the same day, if it was actually a rule. They offer many direct instructions during this process, they return entire application packages for not following said instructions. Signing all forms at the same time isn’t one of them!

Yeah, I don't want to give the OP an impression that you have to reprint them or anything. My wife and I did simply because we wanted to have them all be dated the same (and even then, of course, we'd notice a mistake and have to reprint so they ended up being within about three days of each other, not all on the same day.)

As long as it's all filled out and signed (triple check all the signatures) and there is a date to begin with (whatever it may be), you'll be fine!

 

[1887CAN]

Yeah, I don't want to give the OP an impression that you have to reprint them or anything. My wife and I did simply because we wanted to have them all be dated the same (and even then, of course, we'd notice a mistake and have to reprint so they ended up being within about three days of each other, not all on the same day.)

As long as it's all filled out and signed (triple check all the signatures) and there is a date to begin with (whatever it may be), you'll be fine!

For sure, I didn’t mean to imply that anyone is wrong to reprint, or anything like that. I actually was going to do that myself, but my wife that told me not to be ridiculous and stop and think about how unreasonable it would be to expect someone to reprint every form just because the dates don’t match.

At that point, I realized that I was probably being neurotic. But that’s kind of we do in this situation, we’re the applicants, we want everything to be perfect and not give any cause for returning the application package.

My wife, being the Canadian, doesn’t get anywhere near as worked up about it. Her whole mantra through has been “are all forms filled out correctly, as per the guide? And is the application complete with all required proofs, as per the guide?” If the answer was yes to these questions, we’re good to go. Mail it and wait for IRCC to do their thing. Simple as that. If there’s no instruction to do something in the guide, it’s not getting done.

When I noticed that all the forms bar a couple were signed at different times, I said we should re-do them. She didn’t even look up from the book she was reading, just sighed and asked if there was any instructions for the dates to match. I said I couldn’t find one, so she said she’s not re-doing them!

I agreed and mailed it in. Bearing in mind that lots of people here have had their applications returned for missing signatures (schedule A seems to be catching people out currently), I’m sure during that initial check that IRCC wouldn’t hesitate to return packages for inconsistent signature dates, if it was a requirement for them all to be the same date.

 

[araleith]

Oh, that's helpful - the reason we have so many dates is because as you said, we needed up to date forms, so sometimes those changed and we had to redo them. I feel a lot more reassured now!

 

[1887CAN]

Oh, that's helpful - the reason we have so many dates is because as you said, we needed up to date forms, so sometimes those changed and we had to redo them. I feel a lot more reassured now!

Honestly, I wouldn’t worry about it at all. They want the forms signed, that’s it. My dates were weeks apart in some instances, maybe a couple of months. No issues at all. Applications submitted with no issues, with the OWP approved already.

I know what it’s like to second guess everything, and without my wife pointing out that I was getting on the verge of the ridiculous, I probably still would be. This forum is great for shared experiences, as it can set your mind at ease if someone has been through the same situation/experience successfully.

I’d finish what forms you have left, get all the proofs together and finalize your application package. Give it a day without looking at it, and then give it one last thorough going over. Once you’re happy, send it. There’s no guarantee there won’t be any errors, but if you take your time you should be perfectly fine. Good luck!