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Hmm.. one reason that they may request that you go pick it up in person is because they want to confirm that you're actually in Canada. If they had just mailed it out like normal then I'm sure you could have easily arranged for a neighbour or friend to pick the card up from your mailbox and...

I'd argue that in terms of policy that it's not treated as an economic benefit. Economic PRs need to pass medicals proving that they won't cost too much and overly burden the healthcare system, but (for example) spousal PRs don't need to do this. Likewise, after age 55 economic PR isn't possible...

Just throwing it out there - family reunification exception. Agreed, that seems more than reasonable. That's fair. It takes you longer to qualify for citizenship if you were an economic PR (e.g. Express Entry), since you received PR on the basis of being able to contribute to and benefit...

Good point. Agreed. Not sure how it works worldwide, but perhaps that works. Finish high school in the other country at 18, head straight to college for 4 years, graduate with a bachelor's at 22 and then head to Canada. Of course, the average age at graduation in, say Germany for example, is...

Well, you have been here for eight years and have over 58k posts. It's a lot to go through. But otherwise I think we're on the same page now. Well, I'd also carve out family reunification (allowing spouse and minor children to come and become citizens). I'm seeing some evidence that this may...

Only instances I'm aware of where it's taken that long (10+ years) were ones involving refugees later accused of reavailment (see https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/refugee-status-cessation-and-prs-applying-for-citizenship.333455/ ) - in these it looks to me...

Well, sure, but I wouldn't want to overestimate either. I guess we can just agree that better data is needed and leave it at that for now. Ah. So it seems like, while three is too short, five years is a good balance in return for the potential liabilities? I'd agree that sounds reasonable too...

Problem is that, that website overall has really gone downhill in the last couple of years. This is in part because of protests against that company which ultimately lead to folks leaving and moving to other forums (such as this one). Here's an example: - the original post is gone but...

Sorry I wasn't clear. I am displaying skepticism of your core idea - while on paper it's only three years of taxes, in practice it's likely that most end up paying for a bit longer, and also probable that those who get away with the bare minimum of three years are so few as to just be a drop in...

Hmm... Was there something wrong with the advice that I gave earlier?

Well, I had over half a decade of TRS before getting PR. And then I still had to wait an additional two years. In a couple of years I'll hit my first decade in Canada - I wonder if I'll be a citizen before or after hitting this milestone. I think that's a big if. I know for a fact that I'm not...

What is your question? From https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/disclosure-of-documents-from-icac.788896/#post-10360426 this just means the minister wants to participate. Folks asking what it means seems to be somewhat common...

Hmm.. heading off-topic, but I'm really curious how many folks who previously had no connection to Canada were able to get PR via economic streams, meet the minimum three years, and then get citizenship. (For now I'd not count, e.g., spousal applications, as then it'd only be fair to consider...

Airlines will likely refuse you boarding in this situation. They have a way of checking if the TRV is still valid and if everything works correctly it'll come back as not valid. Of course glitches do happen (e.g. maybe they haven't gotten around to invalidating your TRV in the system yet due to...

To provide an additional datapoint here - I did this and didn't experience any issues. I was living in Ontario but negotiating with my landlord to get a lower rent, and looking into moving elsewhere in the same city if negotiations failed. Based on the timing there was a chance that my PR card...