Hi blaclnucci - you may also want to post this same question at the Citizenship forum, because looks like you are considering your citizenship application process early on, and it does qualify as a Citizenship process question.
It is good that your are planning ahead for your Citizenship - it does prove in a sense that you are really serious on becoming Canadian. I would say the gap between the expiration and renewal of your passport would obviously suggest you never had a chance to travel anywhere during that timeframe.
If CIC will not be satisfied with the information you initially enclosed with your application, they will ask for more in the form of a Residence Questionnaire, which will significantly increase your wait time for approval of Citizenship, so you might want to save all of these early on to help prove your case if they do ask (only the ones that apply to you):
1. Notice of Assessments from Canada Revenue Agency
2. Rent Agreement/Mortgage 3. Go to your bank and ask for all transactions since you opened your account. 4. Credit cards transactions. 5. Telephone bills (Cellphone, landline). 6. Utility bills, Cable, Internet. 7. Car insurance, tickets, driver license, car registration, lease/finance agreements with car vendor 8. Copy of all pages of your passport 9. All immigration documents 10. School time table for you/ your kids
11. Sales reciepts.
12. Work Payslips/business registration papers if you're self employed
13. just about anything you can think that will help prove you lived in Canada.
This is just in case they ask. Naturally most Citizenship applicants won't expect that these documents might become important in their future and they throw them away, and face problems looking for proof of physical residency in Canada.
Again, I suggest posting the same question in the Citizenship forum - we have lots of knowledgeable members there.
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