HOW TO FILL IMM 0008 CANADA IMMIGRATION FORM

Hello everyone, this is Rassane Chebouni for Mavois Canadian Immigration Made Easy and in this video we're going to explore the most common form for permanent residency to Canada. That is the IMM 0008 and that's the form you need to fill out and send with your application regardless of the immigration program that you chose. You always need to fill out this form. So we're going to explore how to find the right version here and how to fill it out properly. Okay, we start on the CIC website that is cic.gc.ca. Then go to the search bar at the top and enter the form name. So that is IMM 0008 and on this page scroll down to the link that says find an IRCC application package or form. Here when asked what we're looking for we're going to choose a form or a checklist and we land on this page. Just so you know this is how you make sure that you get the most up-to-date form for Canadian immigration. You have the date modified here and it comes from the official website. You can find all the forms on Google but they may not be the most up-to-date. So this way you make sure you have the correct form. Here under the filter items we're going to enter IMM 0008 with the space in between and you can see that's the first one generic application form for Canada. So if we click here you're probably going to land on a page that says please wait and that's okay it's because you don't have the right extension. If that's the case just go to the top right corner and click download. You'll have the document downloaded and then you can open it on a pdf reader. Okay so we went ahead and did that this is what the forms look like that's the generic application form for Canada and now we're going to start discussing the main fields that may pose problems for you as an applicant. An important information here this form needs to be filled out by any person who wants to immigrate to Canada and is asking for the permanent resident visa. If you already are a permanent resident and if you want to sponsor your spouse for example then your spouse needs to fill this form out, not you. Any person who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident does not need to fill out this form. Okay so let's start with the first section. Here we have application details, program under which you are applying. In this menu here we have all the main classes of Canadian immigration, the family class that's anything related to family sponsoring, economic class that is for skilled workers, investors and entrepreneurs, refugee class that's pretty obvious and other is some very specific programs like humanitarian and compassionate grounds and things like that. And here you're going to find all the immigration programs that fall under the family class so you could be applying under a spouse that wants to come to Canada to join their husband or wife, common law partner, conjugal partner etc etc. This is where you have to put your current status relative to this application. For your information common law partner is a really strong status in Canada it has almost the same rights and privileges as spouse and to be a common law partner you need to live with your partner in a conjugal relationship for one year under the same roof and you need to be able to prove it. These are the main guidelines for common law partnership. Now to make this tutorial simple we're going to select economic class because family class has a lot of exceptions and it doesn't serve our purpose here. Under economic class we're going to go with skilled worker. Here the third question is how many family members including you are in this application? In this answer you have to include all dependent children that are not permanent residents or Canadian citizens. So if you have any children, stepchildren or any dependent children whatsoever you have to include them. So let's say for example you're a family of four, two adults and two children in this case if everyone is coming to Canada and the children are dependent you're going to have four family members here. Language preference that's pretty obvious. Here we have where do you intend to live in Canada? Watch out this is a tricky question because some programs are not compatible with some provinces. So make sure the program you're applying under actually works with your destination. If you answer Quebec in question five then you need to answer question six as well. Have you received your certificate of selection of Quebec? Because before submitting a PR visa application you need to receive your CSQ or at least to have applied for it. So if you answer Quebec here you'll have to answer the date in which you received your CSQ and if not the date when you applied. If you answer any other province than Quebec you can see this area will become grey and you won't have to fill it out. The second section is about the personal details. Here you have to answer all your information about your height, your size, your sex, your citizenship, your country of residence etc. Question three refers to the UCI. UCI is unique client identifier. This is a number that CIC provides you once you pay some kind of fees or once you start officially an application with them. So if it's your first time filling out the application for permanent residency you won't have a UCI. If however you filled out an application before you paid the fees you received confirmation that your application has been received then you should be having a UCI. So check your emails it's usually written at the top right corner of any letters coming from CIC. The important thing to know in this section is question 11. During the past five years have you lived in any country other than your country of citizenship or your current country of residence indicated above for more than six months? This is the key information here for more than six months. So in that five year span have you spent more than six months in one country? If so you need to enter it, enter the details, the status that you had in that country and the reason for your travel. We continue with question 13. This is related to your marital status so you have to answer questions regarding your relationship if you had any even if you are divorced or if you have been previously in a common-law relationship. Then we move to the contact information section. This is pretty standard except the most important information here is the email address. CIC will first communicate with you by email so make sure the email address that you enter here is accessible, that you check it out frequently and that you did not misspell it. Okay next we have the passport information and the national identity document. Here you have to enter all your information as required. The next section is about education and occupation detail. Here you can see all the different levels of education with the For Europeans or people from the rest of the world, a license in Europe or in the LMD system equals a bachelor's degree in Canada. The number of years of education in total. This is roughly you start counting from middle school so if you have a master's degree that should be around 23 years. Just make sure to check out the instruction guide. So the way I showed you how to instead of checking specific form you can check instruction guide and have access to all the explanations with all the fields in detail. We won't cover everything here because it's a short video but you know where to find the information and if you have any questions you can enter them in the comment section. Okay we move on language detail that's pretty obvious. Have you taken the test from the designated testing agency? This is for people who immigrate under the skilled worker program so they have to take tests like the TCF or the IELTS. And here we come to the tricky section about the dependents. Now you have to answer all this information with the personal details of your dependent children and you have this remove dependent if you have made mistakes and at the bottom of the section you have also added dependent if you have more than one child. If you don't have any children obviously you leave it blank or you enter NA as non-applicable. That's the standard terminology to say that this field is not applicable to your situation. So you can see here it's the same format as before so we move on. Marital status this concern the marital status of the child. Passport, national identity document, education, occupation this is also for your dependent child and once you get to the end of it you click on validate. If you have filled out everything properly when you click to validate you should have a page with barcodes and if not you should have something like this. This is to show you that fields are missing so it's a good way to check that your form is filled out properly. Once you finished filling out everything and you click on validate and you didn't make any mistake you should get a page like this. That means that you enter all the field properly and that the form is able to generate barcodes for your information. It's not over we move to the most important part of the document which is the consent and the signature. Here you can answer yes or no it doesn't really have an impact on your application. If you answer yes it does have an impact on the future of immigration because it helps CIC improve and eventually reduce processing time. So if you want to share your information that will give them more data and hopefully make immigration better. The last part is the declaration of the applicant. Here you have to sign with your name and the date in which you have signed. It is extremely important that you sign otherwise your form will be considered as null. So make sure you sign and then once you do you click validate here once again and this is how you validate the IMM 0008. That's it for this video I hope you found it useful. If you have any questions you can write them down in the comment section or send us an email at info at mavois.com and if you like the video please drop a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you want to know more. This was Ressan from Mavois Canadian Immigration Made Easy and I'll talk to you very soon. Bye!