Canadian address lookup

Type a few characters. Get a complete, correctly split Canadian address.

Canada Post AddressComplete sits on every Canadian address block of every IRCC form, on the address-history tables and on the About You intake. One pick fills unit, number, street, city, province and postal code — each in the box IRCC expects.

About you
Full name
Khan, Aisha
Date of birth
1990-04-12
Citizenship
Pakistan
IMM 1295
auto
IMM 5257
auto
IMM 0008
auto
IMM 5709
auto
IMM 5645
auto
IMM 5406
auto
Lexova About You intake, step 4 of 8 'Where you live now', with an 'Applicant: Marie Tremblay' chip and the 'Find your Canadian address' Canada Post search row above the address boxes.
The About You intake, step 4 of 8: the applicant's name on every step and the Canada Post search above the address boxes.— real screen, invented data.
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IRCC forms split an address into as many as eight boxes — P.O. box, apartment, street number, street name, city, province, postal code, country — and clients fill them the way they write an envelope. The result is street names in the number box and postal codes in the P.O. box field, which Lexova's submission checks refuse. The lookup removes the problem at the source: one search row above the boxes, a Canada Post suggestion list, and one pick that dispatches every part where it belongs. The boxes stay visible and editable, so anything can still be entered by hand.

How it works

1

One search row, first in the block

"Find your Canadian address" sits above the address boxes on every Canadian block — mailing, residential, employer, school. Start typing a street or a postal code and Canada Post suggestions appear.

2

One pick fills every box

Unit, street number, street name, city, province, postal code and country are written to their own fields — including the tricky "1063-3909" unit-number style. A toast asks the client to glance over each box.

3

Intake and history tables too

The About You intake's address step leads with the same search, and address-history tables get a card that appends a complete dated row in one pick. Single-line address fields receive Canada Post's own one-line format.

Why it matters

No more street names in the number box

The parts arrive already split, so the address-format checks that block submission simply never fire.

Every form, every block

All 19 IRCC forms in the library — multi-box address blocks, single-line address fields and the address-history tables of IMM 5669, IMM 5532 and CIT 0002.

Canadian data residency

Suggestions come from Canada Post Corporation, in Canada. Only the address text the client types is sent; the search text itself is never stored.

Foreign addresses stay manual

The search covers Canada only. An address abroad is entered box by box as before — the lookup simply steps aside.

Address-history tables too

The ten-year address history on IMM 5669 — and the address tables on IMM 5532 and CIT 0002 — get their own search card above the table: enter the From and To dates (or tick Ongoing), pick the address, and a complete row is appended with apartment, number, street, city, province and postal code each in its own cell. Foreign addresses and edits still use the table's own row editor.

Lexova address-history card above the IMM 5669 addresses table: From and To date boxes, an 'Ongoing (Present)' checkbox and the 'Find your Canadian address' Canada Post search that appends a complete row.
Address history: From / To dates plus one Canada Post pick add a complete row to the table.— real screen, invented data.
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Frequently asked questions

Can the client correct what the lookup filled?+

Yes. The boxes remain ordinary fields — the pick is a starting point, and every part can be edited or entered by hand.

Where does the address search happen?+

Lexova's own server relays the search to Canada Post AddressComplete for signed-in users only. The connection details never reach the browser, and Canada Post is listed as a processor in our privacy policy.

Does it cover the family-member tables?+

Not the single address cell inside the family tables of IMM 5645, IMM 5406 and IMM 5707 — those entries are mostly abroad and are typed in the row editor. Every dedicated address block and address-history table is covered.

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