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Msafari - thank you for the reply, this makes sense and clears up a lot of the nuances which I was not understanding at all! It is a minefield once you start to look into it and is clearly not worth it to us at this point. And fortunately, I already have my UK Citizenship. As you say, it seems...

Oh, I see. For some reason I always thought that you could apply for citizenship as long as you maintained your PR status for 3+ years. Fine, I guess that makes the decision easy enough! Thanks for the reply. Leslie

Hello, I am Canadian and my husband is a UK citizen with Canadian PR status. He obtained PR status in December 2009. For several reasons we did not settle in Canada but have stayed in the UK since then. He would now like to apply for his Canadian citizenship. I understand that time spent outside...

ohman - Yes of course we could, but for some reason I understood that he could not do this, that they wouldn't let him in? Am I wrong, I don't know?

To clarify, I see that to obtain the 'Travel Document' you have to meet the residency requirements, which is to have lived in Canada (or with me, his wife outside of Canada) for a minimum of 730 days (2 years). Again, we cannot meet this requirement, he only landed in December so we are well...

Hello, My husband has got his PR visa & we 'landed' in Canada in December. However, we were only there for Christmas and have returned to the UK. In the meantime, we gave my family's home address for the PR card to be sent to. Last week we received a letter (in Canada at my family's home)...

My husband dropped his own off at the London high commission, he reckoned anyone could have dropped it off for him, but they ask you there who will be picking it up. I really think they are more concerned about giving as passport BACK to the nominated / correct person (which is probably why...

UK Royal Mail has been striking recently - last week they were on strike for 2 days, this week they will be on strike for 3 days and there appears no end in site to this strike action. This, on top of random postal outlet strikes that have been affecting London since August. To give you an...

I don't necessarily think that draft dodgers had an easy time becoming Canadian citizens, but they were not forcibly returned back to the US. Canada had a policy of admitting these 'conscientous objectors' as something between refugees and immigrants. During the Iraq war, Canada enacted a...

Yes, as a Canadian, you need a visa to enter Syria as a tourist, for any length of time. You need to get it in Canada, before you travel, they do not issue them at the airport on arrival, and they will not normally issue them from a 'third country' (your friend got lucky getting one in Turkey).

You need to do your medical first and send the form that your DMP gives you off with your application to Mississauga.

Raud - yes, sorry I meant 'fortunately we got an email'. They contacted us to let us know, the email address I gave you was the sender. Are you in London or are you based in Canada? If it were me, I would actually go down to the embassy and try to speak to someone. All they would need to do is...

Oh dear. Ours (from London) has also been lost in the post, they sent on 20 August. Unfortunately we got an email about the decision. The thing is, we were only given 45 days to get his passport there, so this time is really eating into those 45 days for you. Bloody postal strikes, they've...

As whoopi said: a co-signer would apply where the sponsor and spouse/partner were sponsoring another; parent etc. You are not a co-signer, you don't need one.

Hmmmm....was your tracking number a 13 alphanumeric number? Is there a bar-code reference anywhere on your receipt that is 13 digits, with the last two being letters (for example, mine ended 'GB' for Great Britain)? To ring from outside Canada the number is 00 1 613 944 4000. Unfortunately...

Ange, try using Canada Post website, put your whole tracking number in there - I was able to find mine (sent from UK) on their website. http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/default.jsf

Robertbola, how did you send your passport to NY then? Did you send it signed-for / registered / secure mail? If yes, then why didn't you arrange for your passport to be sent BACK this way? If you had included in your package TO the NY consulate a self-addressed pre-paid registered /...

I don't know why I thought you weren't 'allowed' to leave before receiving it, I just thought I'd heard that was the case. But having a look on CIC website, you're right, it doesn't really say that anywhere (that i can see). That's good news, we both have to give 3 months notice to our...

Maybe Leon or PMM could help with this one? I'm sure it's been asked before but I don't really understand how this is 'allowed'...:- My husband has been granted PR Visa and we want to go home, to Canada, for a short holiday, then come back to the UK and tie up our loose ends (we have to work...

I'm no expert, but I can't possibly see why it would matter to customs and immigrations if you take a trip to Ottawa after you've landed and gone through immigration?? And I don't really think they care where you do your landing versus where you wrote on the paper that you'd be living. You...