An applicant discovered their agent never mentioned their travel history or included stamped passport pages in the original study permit application, and asked how to handle the upcoming PGWP application.
- Understand the misrepresentation risk. Members flagged the real danger: if travel history was omitted from the earlier application, introducing it in a future application (PGWP or especially PR) can look inconsistent and could raise a misrepresentation concern. This is why the situation needs care rather than silence.
- Consult an immigration lawyer, not a consultant. The strongest advice in the thread: because misrepresentation has serious consequences (including bans), take this to a licensed immigration lawyer rather than the consultant/agent who created the problem.
- Answer truthfully whatever the PGWP form asks. One member's practical rule: you only need to provide, truthfully, what the PGWP application actually requests. Don't fabricate or omit in the new application to stay consistent with the old one — that compounds the problem.
- A clean travel history helps. Another member noted that if there are no refusals, overstays, or other issues in the travel history, disclosing it in the PGWP application should be fine — the omission matters most when it hid something adverse.
The consensus: disclose truthfully going forward, and get professional legal advice on how to address the earlier omission before filing anything, especially before a future PR application.