Note: If you are a parent of a child to be adopted in Canada who is not yet identified, select U – Unknown.
Question 5 Enter your height in either centimetres or feet and inches. Question 6 From the list, select your eye colour. Note: If you are a parent of a child to be adopted in Canada who is not yet identified, select “Other.”
Question 7 Enter your date of birth. If you do not know your complete date of birth, use “01” to fill in the spaces for the unknown year, month or day. Include a letter of explanation saying why you couldn’t include the complete date. Question 8 Enter your place of birth, including the city or town and country of birth, as shown in your passport or your travel document. Note: If you are a parent of a child to be adopted in Canada who is not yet identified, indicate “Unknown” for the city or town and select the country where you intend to adopt a child.
Question 9 Citizenship(s) - From the list, select your country of citizenship.
- If you are a citizen of more than one country, select your other country of citizenship.
Note: If you are a parent of a child to be adopted in Canada who is not yet identified, select the country where you intend to adopt a child.
Question 10 Current country of residence From the list, select
- The name of your current country of residence. Your country of residence is the country in which you are residing, provided that you have been lawfully admitted to that country.
For refugee claimants in Canada only: select Canada whether you have been lawfully admitted or not.
- Your immigration status in that country (indicate one of the following):
- Citizen
- Permanent resident
- Visitor
- Worker
- Student
- Other
- Protected Person
- Refugee Claimant
- Foreign National
- Other: This section must be completed if you selected “Other” as a status.
- Fill in the dates (From – To) you have been living in your current country of residence.
For out-of-status applicants
- for “Status,” select “Other”
- for “Other,” type in “Out of status, requires restoration”
- leave the “From” and “To” boxes blank
Note: If you are a parent of a child to be adopted in Canada who is not yet identified, select the country where you intend to adopt a child and “Citizen” as the immigration status in that country.
Question 11 Enter the date of your last entry to Canada, if applicable. Enter the place you last entered Canada (for example, Toronto airport, Lacolle border crossing, seaport Yarmouth).
Question 12 Previous countries of residence Select the box to tell us if you have lived in any country other than your country of citizenship or your current country of residence for more than 6 months in the past 5 years.
If you checked “Yes,” for each country
- select the name of the country you lived in
- select your immigration status for the time you were in that country:
- Citizen
- Permanent resident
- Visitor
- Worker
- Student
- Other
- Protected Person
- Refugee Claimant
- Foreign National
- Other: This section must be completed if you selected “Other” as a status
- fill in the dates (From – To) you were living in that country
Question 13 - From the list, choose your current marital status:
- Annulled Marriage
- This is a marriage that is legally declared as not valid. An annulment can also be a declaration by the Catholic Church that the marriage union did not have a binding force.
- Common-
Law - This means that you have lived continuously with your partner in a marital-type relationship for a minimum of 1 year.
- Divorced
- This means that you are officially separated and have legally ended your marriage.
- Legally Separated
- This means that you are married but no longer living with your spouse.
- Married
- This means that you and your spouse have had a ceremony that legally binds you to each other. Your marriage must be legally recognized in the country where it was performed and in Canada.
- Single
- This means that you have never been married and are not in a common-law relationship.
- Widowed
- This means that your spouse has died and that you have not re-married or entered into a common-law relationship.
- Enter the date (year, month and day) you were married or you entered into your current common-law relationship.
- Enter the family name(s) and given name(s) of your current spouse or common-law partner.
Note: If you are a parent of a child to be adopted in Canada who is not yet identified, select “Single.”
Question 14 Select the box to tell us if you have been married or in a common-law relationship. If you checked “Yes,” give the following details for your previous spouse or common-law partner: - Family name(s)
- Given name(s)
- Type of relationship:
- Dates (From – To) for which you were in the relationship with your previous spouse/common-law partner
- Date of birth.
Contact Information
- Question 1
- Enter your current mailing address (where information should be mailed) by typing the following information:
- Post office box (P.O. box) number, if applicable. If you do not enter a post office box, you must provide the street number
- Apartment (Apt.) or Unit, if applicable
- Street number (no.), if applicable. It is the number on your house or apartment building. You must provide a street number if you did not enter in a P.O. box
- Street name, if applicable
- City or Town
- From the list, select the Country of your current mailing address
- Province or State
- Postal code or zip code
- District, if applicable