IMM 5562: How to Fill Out the Supplementary Information Your Travels Form (2026)

IMM 5562 is the Supplementary Information: Your Travels form, where you list every trip you have taken outside your country of origin or residence in the last ten years. It is a travel history declaration, and it is one of the easiest forms to get wrong in a way that ends an application.

What the IMM 5562 form is and who must complete it

The form exists in two versions: a digital version inside the Permanent Residence Portal, and a PDF for paper applications. IRCC's guidance on the official IMM 5562 page is to check the instructions for your specific program to find out which version applies to you.

The principal applicant completes it. That single line causes most of the confusion, because completing it does not mean listing only your own trips. According to IRCC's official instructions, you must complete all sections, including those for your spouse or common-law partner, whether accompanying you or not, and for each dependent child over the age of 18, whether accompanying you or not.

Names must be written exactly as they appear on the passport or on the official documents that will be used to obtain one. IRCC's instruction on every name field is explicit: do not use initials.

What counts as a trip on the IMM 5562

You list all trips taken outside your country of origin or residence in the last ten years, or since your 18th birthday if that was less than ten years ago. IRCC's instruction is explicit about scope: include all trips, tourism, business, training, and so on. If you did not travel outside your country during that period, you select "did not travel" rather than leaving the section blank.

What the instruction does not contain is any qualifier. It does not set a minimum trip length, exempt work travel, or carve out a short hop across a land border. It says all trips, and the Federal Court has confirmed that it is the officer, not the applicant, who decides what is relevant to the application.

From Amir's desk: the omission that costs five years

The Federal Court case I point students to is Wang v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2018 FC 368. The applicant, a provincial nominee applicant for permanent residence, listed four trips on his Form 5562: Singapore, Tokyo, and two visits to Canada. He held a second passport, a public affairs passport used for work, and he did not think business travel on it belonged on an immigration form. In his words to the officer, immigration was personal and irrelevant to his employer.

Only when the consulate asked for full passport pages, for an unrelated police-certificate question, did the second passport surface. Its entry and exit stamps showed undeclared travel. He was sent a procedural fairness letter, and the revised Form 5562 he then filed listed 78 trips: 74 more than he had originally declared, across more than ten countries. The officer refused the application for misrepresentation, the five-year inadmissibility applied, and the Federal Court dismissed his judicial review, holding the officer was reasonable to reject the innocent-error explanation because the form's wording was unambiguous and he knew about both the trips and the second passport.

Two patterns produce almost every version of this on my desk. The first is the second passport, whether it is an official, service, or diplomatic one, or simply an old one that expired mid-decade and got filed in a drawer. The second is the applicant who quietly edits their own history, dropping the two-day training trip or the layover that turned into an overnight. Neither omission is a judgment call you get to make.

What misrepresentation actually costs

Under section 40 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, a permanent resident or foreign national is inadmissible for misrepresentation for directly or indirectly misrepresenting or withholding material facts relating to a relevant matter that induces or could induce an error in the administration of the Act. The inadmissibility lasts five years, running from the final determination of inadmissibility where that determination is made outside Canada, or from the date a removal order is enforced where it is made in Canada. A foreign national inadmissible under section 40 may not apply for permanent resident status during that period.

IRCC's own page on the consequences of immigration fraud states the outcome in plain terms: the application will be refused, and the applicant could be banned from Canada for at least five years. It also states that you are responsible for all the information in your application, even if a representative completes it for you.

Intent is not the shield most applicants assume it is. The Federal Court treats the innocent-error exception as narrow: it applies only where an applicant honestly and reasonably believed they were not withholding a material fact and knowledge of it was beyond their control. Forgetting is not the same as not knowing.

If a travel-history question is what made you hesitate, that hesitation is worth thirty minutes. Ansari Immigration's licensed RCIC will tell you plainly whether your file needs help or whether you are fine to file it yourself, and the firm does not sell a service you do not need. Book a consultation ($80 for 30 minutes).

How to fill out the IMM 5562 form

1. Confirm which version your program requires, the Permanent Residence Portal version or the PDF, using the instruction guide for your application.

2. Enter your family name and all given names exactly as shown on your passport. No initials.

3. Gather every passport you have held in the last ten years, including expired ones and any second or official passport, and work through the stamps and visas chronologically.

4. List every trip outside your country of origin or residence in the last ten years, or since your 18th birthday if that came later, including tourism, business, and training travel.

5. Complete the same exercise for your spouse or common-law partner and for every dependent child aged 18 or over, accompanying or not.

6. Select "did not travel" for any person who did not leave their country during the period, rather than leaving the section empty.

7. If you run out of rows, add lines using the plus button. On a paper application, print an additional page for the relevant section, complete it, and submit it with your application, with your name and the form's title written on the sheet.

What if you cannot remember your travel dates

The honest answer is that "I do not remember" is not an accepted entry, and guessing wildly is worse than the effort of reconstructing. Passport stamps and visas are the primary record. Old boarding passes, airline accounts, email confirmations, and entry or exit records held by your own country fill the gaps. Where a date is genuinely approximate after a good-faith reconstruction, applicants commonly explain the limitation in a letter of explanation rather than presenting a guess as a fact.

IRCC's published instructions for IMM 5562 do not set out a procedure for approximate or unrecoverable travel dates. Confirm the current guidance in the instruction guide for your specific program before relying on any approach.

Frequently asked questions about IMM 5562

Is IMM 5562 mandatory?

It is required wherever your program's application package calls for it, and IRCC directs applicants to their program's instructions to confirm which version of the form to use. If IMM 5562 is in your package, completing it fully is not optional.

Who should fill out IMM 5562?

The principal applicant. You complete the whole form, including the sections covering your spouse or common-law partner and each dependent child over 18, whether or not they are coming with you.

Do I have to include my spouse's travels on IMM 5562?

Yes. If you have a spouse or common-law partner, their travel history goes on the form whether they are accompanying you or not. The same applies to dependent children aged 18 and over.

What if I have more trips than there are rows?

Add lines with the plus button. On paper, print an extra page for that section, complete it, and submit it with your application, printing your name and the form's title on the additional sheet.

What happens if I forget a trip on IMM 5562?

An omission that could induce an error in the administration of the Act can be treated as misrepresentation, which carries a five-year inadmissibility under section 40. Officers can and do compare a declared travel history against the entry and exit stamps in a passport, which is exactly what happened in Wang. Review every passport you hold before you sign.

Related Posts

• IMM 0008: The Generic Application Form for Canada - The main permanent residence application form that IMM 5562 is usually filed alongside.

• IMM 5645: How to Fill Out the Family Information Form - The companion form where the same completeness rules about family members apply.

• What Is a Procedural Fairness Letter from IRCC? - What arrives when an officer sees a discrepancy, and what you get to say before a decision is made.

• Work Permit Misrepresentation: What Li v. Canada Means - How the courts treat misrepresentation findings in a different application stream.

Three signs your travel history needs a professional read before you file: you have held a second or official passport in the last ten years, you are reconstructing dates from memory rather than stamps, or an immigration authority has already questioned your travel.

Whatever your travel history looks like, a version of it has crossed this desk before. Ansari Immigration has handled 6,000+ cases since 2019, is led by a licensed RCIC regulated by the CICC, and quotes flat, transparent fees upfront. Book a 30-minute consultation ($80). This form usually surfaces inside a permanent residence or Express Entry application.

How many passports did you have to dig up to complete your travel history? Share what tripped you up in the comments, keep it general, and for advice on your own file use a consultation.

This article is for general information only. It is not legal advice. Program criteria, requirements, processing times, and selection approaches can change without notice. Always confirm details on official government websites or consult a licensed Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) for advice specific to your situation.