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    PR Renewal Residency Clarification

    . Longer Explanation Toward Offering A Better Understanding . . . Given the framing of your question in terms of wanting to better understand the exception pursuant to which a PR can get credit for time outside Canada, I will offer some information (not mere opinion) with reference to...
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    PR Renewal Residency Clarification

    . In general, the Residency Obligation exception allowing credit toward meeting the RO for time outside Canada while "employed on a full-time basis by a Canadian business," pursuant to Section 28 2(2)(a)((iii) IRPA, is narrowly applied and those PRs relying on such credit to comply with the RO...
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    Citizenship 'consultants' - are there any official requirements like for immigration consultants?

    At the risk of taking the bait . . . Citizenship 'consultants' - are there any official requirements like for immigration consultants? Temptation too strong to avoid asking: What? Really? Maybe make that Hunnh? Or, is the query deliberately sarcastic (oddly framed if that is the case)? As if...
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    Lawyer for mandamus

    Your Particular Questions . . . I have been working on responding to your other questions . . . . . . . but the need to lawyer-up issue is the main one, and that includes why it is important to lawyer-up. The why is important but complicated, not easy to explain. This is not just about...
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    Lawyer for mandamus

    . As I have responded elsewhere, skipping the delicacies here, your effort to dictate how I act is rejected. (It is misguided, misplaced, off the mark in numerous respects.) But to be clear, I am no perfectionist (not even close) and I nonetheless will not act like a perfectionist, nor like...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    For clarification . . . . . . at the risk of giving a detailed explanation for what most fully understand but, for some reason, gets shoved aside in some conversations. To the contrary, FIFO dominates citizenship application processing but FIFO is in regards to each particular step, the...
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    URGENT – Citizenship Application – Mistake in Travel History (Answered “No” but had travel)

    This is a delayed response (I am not here anywhere near every day) but there is still time . . . Overview: Make no mistake, you have received a Procedural Fairness Letter and misrepresentation is very much at issue, probably the main issue. Physical presence is also a key issue, of course...
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    Citizenship application: what employer address, local office or address that's on t4/paystub ?

    . I am no expert. I cannot say how YOU should complete this part of the application. Applicants need to read the form and the instructions for themselves and answer based on their own best understanding of what is being asked and what is the best answer (focus on giving an accurate, honest...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    . If you received any paperwork from the Port-of-Entry officials, be sure to read it carefully. Current Stage of Proceedings and Next Step Assuming you were not given paperwork constituting a Removal Order or a Departure Order . . . and assuming you do not have some other application or...
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    Lost PR card and beiing asked humanitarian and compassionate considerations for residency requirement

    . Apparently the OP has not returned here since February 1st and thus has not seen much of the more detailed discussion, perhaps none of the discussion in regards to whether a 44(1) Report has been prepared. Reminder: In my first post on this subject I stated that . . . "whether a Report has...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    . The analysis of the "intent" to reavail element by Justice Go, in Ahmad v. Canada, 2026 FC 227, https://canlii.ca/t/kj954 is not only what determined the outcome in this particular case, but that is probably the key fulcrum in many of these cessation cases . . . and I am jealous of her...
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    Minor 5(2) application submitted while outside Canada

    Actually, in regards to PR status being "terminated" or otherwise not in effect or not valid, I glossed over the technical mechanics, how the change in law will be implemented in particular cases . . . which are not clear. A PR "loses" PR status "when they become a Canadian citizen" (Section...
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    Risk of Being Reported for Residency Obligation Shortfall When Moving Permanently in 2027

    Follow-up to comments by @Buletruck and @canuck78 which warrant being taken seriously . . . . . . there tends to be a significant delay in reports reflecting RO enforcement trends. Assessing RO enforcement risks is not just rife with uncertainty it is, well, risky. Changes in the risks can...
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    Minor 5(2) application submitted while outside Canada

    As has been discussed albeit mired in speculative tangents, given the December 2025 change in law your child is a Canadian citizen by descent (Section 3(1)(b) Citizenship Act). Moreover, they are "deemed" to be a citizen "from the time" they were born. To be clear, the exception to Section...
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    Question about 5 Year Eligibility Period (Out of status before PR)

    Answer questions honestly, thus as completely and accurately as you can based on your best understanding of the question and the facts. Since you had student status in 2021, until December you say, you MUST report that (assuming you make your application in the coming months). I am not...
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