Travel history form, flight changes, correct information

[joe112244]

Could someone please help, I have several questions regarding the correct filling out of the travel history form (IMM 5562 )?

1) should my spouse sponsoring me (outland) fill out this form with her travel history as well as me?
2) if I had flight changes, for example, My destination was London, but I had flight change for a couple of hours in Paris (and I have the stamp of Paris airport in my travel passport since the first country entering the Schengen zone was Paris). What is the correct way to fill this out?
3) I don't have stamps (on my travel passport) of other EU countries I visited during my trip to Europe since only the first and the last country of the Schengen zone put stamps. Do I have to indicate that I visited those countries as well?
4) Should I indicate my refusals in visa in this form? If not where should I inform a VO about my Refusals?
5) what purpose of travel should I indicate (tourism, education) if I got Short term student visa to Britain (English language School for a few weeks)?

 

[esam99]

1. yes
2. you can mention Paris then London in the next row
3. yes, better to
4. no, a refused visa should be included in the "Schedule A – Background/Declaration form"
5. education

 

[armoured]

1) should my spouse sponsoring me (outland) fill out this form with her travel history as well as me?

1) I'm going to disagree with esam99 on this - no, the spouse-sponsor does not need to fill out travel history. (They won't reject if the sponsor does submit it though). This form is also used for forms of PR application where the spouse is not already a Canadian citizen or PR.

Minor note on other things like 'show education or tourism for eg short-term language courses': since the visa type (as in Canada) may be tourism/visitor, if in doubt about the purpose or the mismatch between the two, you can add a letter of explanation - short and factual. "Trip to UK - [dates] - visa type tourist - language courses at [institution.]" Similarly if, for example, multiple things (e.g. 'studied English for six weeks at [institution], balance of three week visit was tourism.') Note, if in doubt - they likely do not care if you spent a weekend at tourist sites while studying.

Don't wish to over-generalize but it's okay or at least not harmful to explain stuff if ambiguous. Same to some degree with Schengen country travel - if you don't have perfect records - 'entered via Paris, [dates] travel within Schengen zone.' A day trip to Bruges if you don't know exact dates is likely not material. Obviously there are things that need precise answers and are substnative and material - e.g. marital status - but if in doubt about other stuff, explain - briefly, factually.