Hi

When filling in the from - to date fields with regards to employment history and addresses, one cannot put 'present' in the to field. Would the correct way to deal with this be to leave it blank and add it in a separate sheet of paper along with other explanations or to write in 'present' or to enter the date as of time of filling in the form which seems the less likely.

C

    > When filling in the from - to date fields with regards to employment
    > history and addresses, one cannot put 'present' in the to field. Would
    > the correct way to deal with this be to leave it blank and add it in a
    > separate sheet of paper along with other explanations or to write in
    > 'present' or to enter the date as of time of filling in the form which
    > seems the less likely.

No experts answered yet, so I'll answer from my successful experience of sponsoring a spouse.

Write present over the fields. It is clear what it means. Putting in a date might make the officer think you stopped working on that
date. Leaving it blank could lead to questions even if you explained it on another paper somewhere. You never want to leave question
parts blank unless it is blatantly obvious because of an earlier part of the question that further information is not needed or not
applicable. We still wrote "Not Applicable" in many question sections anyway just to be sure and so that the officer wouldn't think
we missed that question or avoided answering it.

one cannot put 'present' in the to field.

As you know the form in PDF format is fillable. If you're unable to write "present" in the date field, just change it to character field. You can do that.

the word 'present' is not a date..

use current date...




"samsx2ht" <member@british_expats.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Hi
    > When filling in the from - to date fields with regards to employment
    > history and addresses, one cannot put 'present' in the to field. Would
    > the correct way to deal with this be to leave it blank and add it in a
    > separate sheet of paper along with other explanations or to write in
    > 'present' or to enter the date as of time of filling in the form which
    > seems the less likely.
    > C
    > --
    > Posted via http://britishexpats.com

In article <srEsb.381187$9l5.177457@pd7tw2no>, kurakot wrote:

    > the word 'present' is not a date..
    >
    > use current date...

As someone pointed out, that might be interpreted on a later date as
a case where the applicant got laid-off/resigned on that date. What has worked
for people is to print out the forms with all the fields but this one typed up
from inside Acrobat Reader (or your favorite software) and then writing with a pen
"NOW" or "PRESENT" or whatever.

Infact, tons of people regularly submit only hand-filled applications.

Nothing wrong with that.

--ravi.

Yes, thanks to all those that took the trouble to reply - I had printed out the forms with a blank and thought that I would probably write in 'present' I too felt that putting todays date may misinform the CIC and make it appear the employment/living arrangements had finished on that date.
C

How can you do it ?


Johnson <member@british_expats.com> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > one cannot put 'present' in the to field.
    >
    >
    >
    > As you know the form in PDF format is fillable. If you're unable to
    > write "present" in the date field, just change it to character field.
    > You can do that.

If you can print 'Present', they should make the pdf in that way. In my opinion, current date is OK, because, you don't know about tomorrow in advance. I filled priliminary assessment form of immigration of Quebec with current date and they didn't ask me about it.

Anyway, I shall wait for expert's opinion before filling the form.

Afzalulh