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Also, beware of leaving Canada at all while your Inland sponsorship application is in progress. CBSA agents can deny your reentry even with an OWP application in progress (and even with an actual OWP) if they judge you're not gonna leave Canada once your status expire. Especially at land borders...

It could also be that this office has some spare agent time compared to others and that your file got transferred as part of a rebalancing effort. Really, nobody knows and all you can do is wait for further updates on your application.

Yes, it is a long journey, and it starts by you, the PR and sponsor, living in Canada. The definition of living in Canada is pretty self explanatory I think, and it isn't a good idea to try to skirt the lines just for getting your wife a PR status in Canada. If you're not that willing to go...

The main "thing" that can lead to US citizens PR applications to be faster is that, if the applicant doesn't have any other country to be checked for the background check than the US and Canada, it makes the background check step quicker, as all relevant Canadian authorities involved in the...

Once you have the eCOPR, all your other documents are indeed invalid, as you become a Canadian PR. And the eCOPR is NOT a travel authorization, it is only a status document, that can be used to travel only if you are either an US Citizen (as US citizens are entirely visa free and do not require...

Raise a webform, saying that you got an OWP and wish to withdraw your visitor record application. Refund or not, as Canuck said you must warn IRCC of any change in your status, and other people on this forum got a refund in the past in similar situations. No guarantee on that, but it's...

Please check the application guide. More specifically, there is a specific section in one of the forms you need to fill out that asks if any of you are expecting a child, and asks for the due date. So IRCC will be informed of that. As to how it affects applications, this is unknown. Also...

Update: Just received today the enrollment confirmation letter. Coverage begins Feb 1st, 2024, and ends October 31st, 2024. Only provided the fees receipt, Marriage Certificate, and her current immigration document (whose current validity ends way before October 31st btw). So yeah, it works...

I can confirm that they now send an email as soon as you submit the PR application, my wife got one and she applied on Dec 13. It's also a document that is required if you apply for an OWP under the new policy (Dec 7) that allows you to apply without the AOR if your current status expires in...

Try to link it in your GCKey account to see if you have the BIL there. Otherwise just wait a day or two and you should get it in your email.

IMM5710 is NOT to be printed to pdf. You need to redownload it, fill it out, your wife type her full name at the bottom where the signature field is, and click the "validate" button. Then you SAVE the form and upload it as is, it'll be counted as signed.

IRCC only follow the stat holidays, aka Dec 25 and 26. Maybe some agents booked the week with vacation days, but they'll definitely be people working Dec 27-29.

OWP for Spousal sponsorship cannot be delivered at the border, because one of the conditions is that you have a status IN Canada. When at the border, technically you're not in Canada and thus don't have a status. Several people tried to get it at the border and they almost all failed. What you...

If received on the PA email, it's AIP, and on the sponsor email it's SA, so yep, all that's left after those generally is Background check, which is the longest step sadly.

The only days IRCC doesn't work are stats holiday. So for December is the 25 and 26. You can definitely get the AOR on Dec 27/28/29. Not saying you will as it depends on a lot of factors but it's not like IRCC takes a whole week off on Christmas.

Did you use the PA UCI? On the AOR they give the sponsor's UCI, you need to use the PA one to link it.

The PCC is part of the REQUIRED docs on the PR portal. You cannot send the application without at least one provided. So yee, you have to submit it upfront.

You can't switch application type. You can and should, once she's in Canada, raise a web form to change her current residential and mailing address, but aside from that your application will continue as outland.

Oh wow, that's super fast. I guess that with the reaffirming of the public policy they just skip over a lot of processing when it's an OWP nowadays.

Answer truthfully, and in the space dedicated to explaining any "yes", saying that you did get deported all those years back, explain in detail what happened. Then, add a Letter of Explanation for the form in question in the documents you'll upload. Explain in it that in your 2019 application...