IMM 5562 travel history: what counts as a trip

1. What goes on it?

Supplementary Information: Your travels (IMM 5562) asks for trips outside your country of origin or of residence in the last 10 years (or since age 18): the dates, the destination, the length and the purpose. Section A is the applicant's own trips; Section B is for a spouse or common-law partner; Section C covers dependent children 18 or older. Guide 5289 lists it as a portal form, "if it applies to you", and each family member 18 or older on the application completes their own.

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List all trips your spouse or common-law partner has taken outside their country of origin or of residence in the last ten years.

IMM 5562 instructions ↗

2. My spouse is the sponsor. Does Section B still apply?

IRCC's instructions don't say whether a sponsoring spouse's trips belong in Section B. If you list them, the dates have to match the relationship form.

3. What counts as a trip?

Any time you left the country you lived in, including a weekend across a border, a transit stop with an overnight stay, a cruise, a visit home while studying abroad. Business and personal both count. If you lived in two countries during the period, trips are measured from whichever one you were living in at the time.

4. The two traps

• Ticking "did not travel" when you did. It can't be undone in the form after submission; the fix is an IRCC web form message with the corrected table.
• Dates that disagree with other forms. If you first met outside the applicant's country of residence, that meeting appears as a trip on IMM 5562 with the same dates as on the relationship form (IMM 5532). The address history on Schedule A (IMM 5669) shows when you lived abroad. The three have to agree.

5. On the form

IMM 5562 is a portal form, so there is no PDF to sign. OpenVisa shows your answers for copying, and the Chrome extension can fill them in the Permanent Residence Portal; each trip is entered once and used on every form that asks for it.