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The quick answer is that you'd pay $26,682 in taxes if it were all employment income, and all earned by one person. But there are so many variables that this figure is almost useless. It woudl be lower if the income were split between two people, if part of the income was investment income, etc etc.

If you're physically present in Canda more than 183 days each year, you must file a tax return. Presumably there would be some taxes to pay. But even if you're exempted from taxes by a tax treaty, this would have no effect on citizenship aspirations.

Here’s a brief primer, followed by a recommendation to purchase one of the tax programs available in Canada. I like QuickTax the best (an unpaid testimonial). In your first Canadian tax return, covering the year you become a permanent resident, ending 31 December of that year, you must declare...

Accurate within a few dollars, ALabaman -- provided that the $80K was all employment income.

For clarity, I take it that someone can be a permanent resident even after the PR card has expired. So, in this case, IF the person could somehow get into Canada, maybe as a tourist, then stay the required 2 years of residence during the ensuing 5 years, then he could "restore" his PR status...

Thanks, Leon. I have to post only another 5768 messages before I get "VIP Member" status like you, right? I'd better get working.

Suin: don't the instructions include a page of photo specs? Follow them to the nth degree.

My wife will join the B.C. health care plan. While she is out of Canada, does the plan offer any coverage? WHere can I research the coverage in greater depth, please? TOby

If you already have the braces on, a good orthodontist might charge you $100 per month to do the maintenance.

If permanent resident spends the first year in Canada, then the next 4 years out of Canada, then (somehow) re-enters Canada and stays the next 3 years in Canada, he/she will have spent 50% of the time in Canada, which is above the minimum requirement of 40%. Will Canada consider him back on...

In Latim America I agree with you. Bureaucracts there show a certain glee making life more difficult. But in Canada I suspect it has more to do with job creation -- for buteaucrats, of course. Anyway, end of this thread? CHeers, TOby .

I agree; hard copies. Canada specifies that they should be loose, not bound in albums, etc. That clearly means hard copies. The IO will spend a few seconds, maybe a minute, checking them to see if they corroborate your application, then go on to other things. If you force him to slow down by...

I don't know the answer to all your questions, but here is what I am doing. Once settled in Canada, I will have someone ship my personal possessions, now stored in Costa Rica (long story; don't ask), to me in Canada. WHen I left COsta RIca to stay in China, I did not note the serial numbers of...

Well, Diddagirl, we do agree that a IO needs more than documentary evidence to truly judge a relationship. This is why -- in case Immigration is looking for new ideas -- I suggested elsewhere that there be a 15-minute screening interview with every applicant before beginning the application...

Nothing suspicious in your case, Diddagirl, but how many people keep boarding passes and hotel receipts over many years as mementos? Surely not many. You were lucky that you kept them; but you do admit it was not premeditated, not with a visa in mind. Had you been thinking "visa" right from the...

Why not consider a reverse sponsorship? Do you have work where you live? Then sponsor her to come live in your country. But if you managed to get a residence visa and came to Canada, and drew social assistance, she would be liable for your debt by cirtue of the sponsorship agreement you both...

This won't help Newbie, but the experienes of others suggests strongly that upon landing in Canada, don't schedule any out-of-Canada trips for many months, until you have your residence card in hand. Look on the bright aide: this process would take much longer in most Latin American countries.

Interesting range of opinions and reactions to this post. I interpreted the comment "we prefer not to get married" (or words to that effect) as a statement that they want to be married in their own good time, and not be stampeded into it to expedite a visa application. But many here thought it...

I'd like to change somewhat one of the the replies. The fact of having Canadian residency does change the visa requirements you would normally have. For example, my Chinese wife, travelling under a Chinese passport, would normally require a consular visa to visit Costa Rica. But with Canadian...

They are pretty specific about the photos -- must be loose, not bound in albums etc etc. It seems to me that they want hard copies. If it takes a few seconds to thumb through a buynch of phtos, it wojld certainly take longer to go to a website to two -- so they probably would not. But it...