Tonight I realized my husband and I incorrectly answered question 6 B on the Schedule A form.
We incorrectly read the question regarding whether he had ever been convinced of a crime in any country and checked “no” when we should have checked “yes” (marijuana possession in 2010).
We did disclose the conviction under the question “have you ever been arrested, detained etc”, which we said “yes” to. This was an honest mistake. We misread the question. The lawyer we hired to go over our forms prior to submitting also did not catch this despite knowing about his past. I should also mention we submitted his fbi check with these forms which also highlight the conviction.
We realized this major error when working to update information to the IRCC regarding his criminal background history, as a week ago he learned he had a drug paraphernalia possession charge from 2016 that he knew absolutely nothing about until last week. He paid the $500 fine right away and the case has since been closed. As we were working toward informing the IRCC about this charge and the fact that we did not know about it until after our permanent residency application was submitted, we realized the huge mistake in our Schedule A.
I am seeking opinions on whether we are likely to be hit with misrepresentation on failing to check “yes” to question 6 B. We did not hide any of this information - it was all there, we simply incorrectly answered the question when asked but provided full details of his arrests and conviction in an accompanying letter... the only information that was missing was the information we learned AFTER we submitted our application.
Unfortunately we have lost all faith in the legal council we had hired, as she also missed this error.
Please, any opinions or advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. We have a 3 month old son and will be devastated if my husband is banned for 5 years due to a very honest mistake made by sleep deprived new parents and a lawyer who wasn’t paying close enough attention.
We incorrectly read the question regarding whether he had ever been convinced of a crime in any country and checked “no” when we should have checked “yes” (marijuana possession in 2010).
We did disclose the conviction under the question “have you ever been arrested, detained etc”, which we said “yes” to. This was an honest mistake. We misread the question. The lawyer we hired to go over our forms prior to submitting also did not catch this despite knowing about his past. I should also mention we submitted his fbi check with these forms which also highlight the conviction.
We realized this major error when working to update information to the IRCC regarding his criminal background history, as a week ago he learned he had a drug paraphernalia possession charge from 2016 that he knew absolutely nothing about until last week. He paid the $500 fine right away and the case has since been closed. As we were working toward informing the IRCC about this charge and the fact that we did not know about it until after our permanent residency application was submitted, we realized the huge mistake in our Schedule A.
I am seeking opinions on whether we are likely to be hit with misrepresentation on failing to check “yes” to question 6 B. We did not hide any of this information - it was all there, we simply incorrectly answered the question when asked but provided full details of his arrests and conviction in an accompanying letter... the only information that was missing was the information we learned AFTER we submitted our application.
Unfortunately we have lost all faith in the legal council we had hired, as she also missed this error.
Please, any opinions or advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. We have a 3 month old son and will be devastated if my husband is banned for 5 years due to a very honest mistake made by sleep deprived new parents and a lawyer who wasn’t paying close enough attention.
