A second study permit refusal cited a reason tied to Canadian travel history / prior Canadian immigration documents — but the applicant's brother had never been to Canada and never held any Canadian document. Members' rebuttal playbook:
- Recognize the pattern. Members reported others receiving refusals referencing Canadian travel history or Canada ties around that period. When a refusal ground is factually wrong for your file, the response is documentation, not resignation.
- Build an evidence page. The concrete suggestion: prepare a document (uploadable via webform or with the reapplication) containing your passport details and a scan of all passport pages, with a written explanation of the passport's history — establishing there is no Canadian entry, visa, or immigration document at all.
- Reapply with a justification letter and a new SOP. Asked whether to seek reconsideration, the answer was to reapply '100%' — with a justification letter directly addressing the erroneous ground plus a rewritten SOP. (Reconsideration requests exist but members favored a clean, well-evidenced reapplication.)
- Audit your forms for the trigger. Members suspected the phantom history came from a wrong entry in the submitted forms — a mis-ticked checkbox about previous Canadian applications or documents. Triple-check every tick-box in the generic form before resubmitting; a single wrong tick can generate a refusal ground that looks inexplicable.