Omg it happened to me as well!!!!! I had a previous SIN number as a worker but I changed it when I got PR… received on the mail, saw the 1 and didn’t think anything about it until yesterday when I applied for a credit card and the lady at the bank asked me if I had lived or being on Nova Scotia, PEI or Newfoundland… I was so confused! She told me the 1 at the beginning is for someone who resides there so I don’t know what the heck that happened… I’m a resident of Ontario, we should have a 4 or 5 in front. I called services Canada and they were supposed to send me an email with the information of how to fix it but they haven’t. I’m gonna call back tomorrow.
Think those numbers don't hold any more, i.e. they've had to reassign from time to time. (Five family members, four recent, three with 5s, one starts with a 1 - no issues).
After receiving my pr card on the mail, I noticed my case was moved from Etobicoke to Sydney, Nova Scotia so I’m guessing that’s why my SIN number starts with a 1
“People” can get worried when they don’t know if something is correct or not. “People” here are not Canadians who know how the system works. This forum is here so we can exchange ideas and help each other out. Have a little more of empathy and if you don’t have anything good to say, maybe just keep it to yourself instead of “making a problem when there is none”
