My husband and I submitted our PR application on August 21 and just received AOR today.
Last week during a trip to Houston to visit family, my husband went to get a replacement copy of his drivers license made as his had been stolen and he wanted to trade it in for a Nova Scotia license ASAP. While at the DPS ago do so, we learned he was ineligible to get a new license as he had an outstanding ticket for possession of drug paraphernalia (a class C misdemeanour) which he knew nothing about. This ticket stemmed during a 2016 traffic stop during which the officer found marijuana in his possession, confiscated it, and sent him on his way. He was not arrested, was not given a ticket, and did not receive a notice in the mail. Although he was not caught with drug paraphernalia but actually with marijuana, the officer issued him a citation for the lesser offence which is not a criminal offence in Canada.
As soon as he learned about this ticket, he paid the $500 fine to get it over with. Obviously when we submitted our PR application, we did not know about this criminal accusation. This week, we submitted information about it to the IRCC via their web form explaining we just learned about it and therefore did not disclose it on our application, but wanted to be forthcoming about it now.
As the IRCC had not yet started the background check, how likely is it that we will be hit with misrepresentation for not disclosing this on our original application (although it was impossible to do so at the time)?
Is our submission via the webform to disclose this offence likely sufficient as we did it prior to receiving our AOR and did it as soon as we found out?
Last week during a trip to Houston to visit family, my husband went to get a replacement copy of his drivers license made as his had been stolen and he wanted to trade it in for a Nova Scotia license ASAP. While at the DPS ago do so, we learned he was ineligible to get a new license as he had an outstanding ticket for possession of drug paraphernalia (a class C misdemeanour) which he knew nothing about. This ticket stemmed during a 2016 traffic stop during which the officer found marijuana in his possession, confiscated it, and sent him on his way. He was not arrested, was not given a ticket, and did not receive a notice in the mail. Although he was not caught with drug paraphernalia but actually with marijuana, the officer issued him a citation for the lesser offence which is not a criminal offence in Canada.
As soon as he learned about this ticket, he paid the $500 fine to get it over with. Obviously when we submitted our PR application, we did not know about this criminal accusation. This week, we submitted information about it to the IRCC via their web form explaining we just learned about it and therefore did not disclose it on our application, but wanted to be forthcoming about it now.
As the IRCC had not yet started the background check, how likely is it that we will be hit with misrepresentation for not disclosing this on our original application (although it was impossible to do so at the time)?
Is our submission via the webform to disclose this offence likely sufficient as we did it prior to receiving our AOR and did it as soon as we found out?
