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I think it is 1095 days you must spend in Canada during the 5 years prior to applying for citizenship. And those days must be spent in Canada. Then there is a rigmarole about passing a test. There are other who know more about this than I. Use the search box top right on your computer screen...

All the reported benefits of citizenship are accurate, but it does not always suit a PR to become a citizen. In my wife's case, we can live outside Canada and she can keep her PR because she is living with a Canadian citizen (me). The difficulty is proving we are together, which requires an...

I would suggest your spouse negotiate a fair amount of time off from work to take a vacation in India, rather than use legal loopholes to break his contract. The employer is going to some trouble to get him a visa; why pay the employer back in such a way? To do so might come back to haunt you...

A guesstimate is one year for Sydney to issue the Citizenship Certificate, and another few months for the passport.

You are a PR; is your spouse too? If so, then everything Leon says about the difficulties in store trying to get your baby into Canada will be true. So, rather than have to go to Canada, leaving the baby in India, and sponsor the baby to Canada, why not have the mother give birth in Canada, in...

Or just mention the changed SIN in a cover letter for the tax return. Of course, this means you must mail it rather than e-file it, but no big problem.

Are you married to a Canadian citizen? If so, your child is automatically a Canadian, even though you must apply for a citizenship certificate and then a passport. (SO as not to appear smarter than I am, I confess that Leon told me this.)

Why not mobilize your defences beforehand? Tell your concerns to the store manager, and if he agrees, tell them to Human Resources. Then, if she should create trouble, you will have two unimpeachable witnesses to back you up. It helps to have the facts about your specific case registered with...

I had an additional thought. if your case should have to go to appeal (perish the thought!), an immigration consultant might have to bow out and you would then have to hire a lawyer. This might be more costly than if you had hired that lawyer in the first place (he/she would already be familiar...

I hired a registered immigration consultant, who I eventually fired. He and I just did not agree on the type of application to be submitted. And on one or two occasions he was simply wrong, ignorant of instructions in the CIC application form. I ended up wastig mroe time with hiom than I...

So, if you sold your PR card, Leon, you'd sell it to someone who looked a bit like Brad Pitt? (ba da dum!!)

When a PR enters Canada, is the passport swiped or the PR card too? If only the passport, how would CIC ever know that that particular PR card had been reported lost? And what does the buyer do -- get plastic surgery to look like the photo on the PR card?

There is no inheritance tax in Canada, whether or not the inheritance was taxed in a different country. It might have seemed from other answers that there is no inheritance tax in Canada only because it was taxed elsewhere, but no -- no inheritance tax in Canada period. So, you need not provide...

If I recall correctly, some of the questions ask for historical knowledge, like "who was the second Prime Minister after Confederation?" I guess that would be nice to know, but has nothing to do with being a good citizen. I'd prefer to see questions to do with ethics, and values. Wrong answers...

Subject: Muslims in Manitoba [article from the Calgary Herald] Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 14:25:51 -0400 Time to Change Tune on Official Multiculturalism by Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald - February 12, 2011 About one dozen families who recently immigrated to Canada are demanding that the Louis...

I believe that was only one case, Leon, where the judge worried about whether the PR was accompanying the Canadian spouse. In several other cases the judges ruled that it didn't matter; as long as the PR and Canadian spouse were together, those days counted toward the PR quota. In fact, this...

Leon: What are the chances a border officer will figure out that he cannot meet the PR requirements, and deny him entry to Canada, or at least require him to prove he meets the requirements by the fifth anniversary of landing? if he is given this (I forget the technical term), subsequent days...

FranFran: Are you still waiting for your visa?

You're probably right, but CRA looks for excuses to declare someone a taxpayer. If the children were working adults (18 years of age or more), the husband would not be a taxpayer. However, what concerns me is that the younger one was attending school; I wonder whether there is some obscure rule...