Recent content by OrangeBunny

My wife just received her notice for her citizenship exam. This is great news, but our household doesn't use Windows or MacOS. Every computer we have runs Fedora Linux. Has anyone attempted to take the exam with a Linux (Not ChromeOS) laptop with the Chrome browser? Did it work, or should I...

Happy to say that our daughter is arriving in Canada later today! What a long process! Some reflections on getting an unaccompanied minor (16 years old, in this case) onto an airplane for the trip to Canada: 1) Be prepared for a lot of questions about why the minor is leaving the country...

Hi! Yes, "Plan A", as it were, is to get our daughter into Canada before the 6-month's left of validity on her passport is reached, and then she can renew when she gets here. If that goes well, I agree that it's not a problem. The issue comes if VFS Global takes too long to return the...

Hi! We actually received a request for more information from IRCC on our daughter's application on April 29th, and then, oddly, received the Pre-arrival email on the 30th, well before we were able to provide the additional information (that took a week or two). We didn't hear anything back at...

We got the PPR for our daughter already and the VFS Global processing centre received the passport today. Any idea how long VFS Global takes to process the passport? This centre is in Cebu, Philippines. I'm terrified to talk about my reason for asking: our daughter's passport expires at the end...

Hi, we are finalizing our application for our dependent child. After we submitted the medical results in February, there was a period of about two months before anything changed at all. Even then, the only thing that happened is that the application in ECAS changed status. We only received the...

Hello, folks! We received our daughter's PPR today! That's the good news! The less good news is that I'm having a tough time understanding the logistics of the next steps. I know what needs to be done, but it's not clear how to do it. The letter we received said to go to...

We submitted them only about a week ago. They gave us two months to respond, and I wouldn't have expected them to be looked at yet, but I guess I would hate to think that they didn't get sent properly and we only find out in a month that they think we never responded.

I have what I hope is a simple question: When you supply additional information to IRCC via email, do you get a reply that the documents were received? We were asked for some additional documents, which we gathered and submitted about two weeks after the request. We were sure to follow the...

That's strange. We are watching the application for my wife's daughter and it went the other way! Last Friday, it moved from "In progress" to "Application Received". The immigration consultant with whom we are working (who I don't always trust knows what's going on) says it means the application...

Hi, I'm sorry if this question has been answered elsewhere, but I'm wondering if the visa for arrival in Canada after PR is approved has been extended due to Covid? Prior to Covid, an approved applicant had 30 days to enter Canada after getting their passport back from the consulate.

@armoured makes a really good point. I totally neglected to mention that my wife does have a legal document that revokes guardianship from the father. That was an egregious omission on my part. That all happened many years before I met my wife, so I guess it just didn't occur to me.

Hi, my wife and I are sponsoring her teenage daughter under similar circumstances. The biological father is nowhere to be found. Although the application is still in progress, the immigration consultant with whom we are working told us to provide a letter in lieu of the IMM5604 that describes...

We received my step-daughter's biometrics request yesterday (that's great news!). She will need to travel about 3 hours to get to the nearest visa office. Should we wait for the medical request (she will have to go to the city for that, too), or just get the biometrics done as soon as possible...

Hi, folks! We just received the AOR1 for my step-daughter last night! Application Received: May 29, 2020 AOR1: December 8, 2020 (I'll add this to my signature once I figure out how!)