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Re: Renewing Permanent Resident If the PR card you were issued on arrival the first time is expired, and you are outside Canada and want to return, your first priority is to get a Travel Document that will permit you to return to Canada. You need to first make the case for being allowed back...

CRA is making it possible for first time filers to use NETFILE this year, so you can do it online. Their website is down today, but it shouldn't be too much longer before it is back up and running.

File your tax returns for 2012 and 2013. There are spaces to indicate when you arrived in Canada and when you left, so it doesn't matter that you didn't stay long after your first landing. The first time is when you officially became a PR, so you need to account for your income starting at...

I've been here going on for two years now, I live in northern Ontario (small city, ~10,000 population), an area not exactly teeming with other immigrants, but my little community does include a number of others who would be called minorities. I'm enough of a novelty that most people I interact...

Taxation in Canada is based on your world income. When I filed my first income tax return (2012), I had worked in Canada for about 2 months, and 6 months in my home country. My home country income went under Line 104 with a notation that it was Foreign employment income. This amount can...

Also check out Moonlight Villas on West End. Very reasonable prices, run by a Canadian ex-pat, a most marvelous lady. We celebrated our second anniversary there, and as we were the only guests she basically gave us the run of the place. We used the kitchen to prep our meals, and my husband...

I moved to northern ON from Jamaica, so I can kind of relate. How many layers you wear depends on what you need to feel comfortable. You need a good coat for outdoors, do not skimp on your outermost layer. A good one can run you into the hundreds, but you will be wearing it for a few years if...

Free? You could try a credit union, I don't think they charge fees. On the other hand, you might find yourself up a creek if you are away from your town/city and need assistance with something to do with your account, as credit unions are localised and not linked to each other. The big 5 (TD...

If an office is closed, responsibility for processing applications will be taken over by another office or offices, usually in the same regional area. It would appear CIC's website has not yet been updated to take account of the closure of kiev (Kyiv on the website) but that will come soon...

Chickie, I have plenty space in my suitcase, I am taking nothing with me. I shall be coming back at least 20lbs heavier, though, because my husband says every time he asks me what I am excited about I mention food. :P Don't get me wrong, I have zero issues with food here, except those things...

Got locked out of my account because of changes to my computer. Anywho, I am checking in again. Just saying hello to everyone here, those I "know" and those I don't, and wishing everyone well on their journey to settling in Canada together as a family. It has been just over a year and a half...

They don't have to be the same date, as the agencies maintain separate criteria for things such as common-law relationships. If you are spouses, the date of change is the date of your marriage as per your marriage certificate, no matter when you advise CRA. The point is, you don't want to...

1. GCMS replaced CAIPS, so it is GCMS. 2. Access to Information is what you want. 3. Public, if you are none of the others. 4. Do you want your actual file, or do you just want to see any notes? If it's the notes you want, request electronic. Requesting physical means they pack up your actual...

We spent our honeymoon there! Lovely place. Moonlight Villas, right next door, is owned by an expatriate Canadian lady. Very nice and accommodating host is Debbie, she hosted us for our first anniversary celebration and as her only guests we had the run of the place. If you're ever in...

It's a requirement of CRA. It's a good idea to update your status with CRA as soon as feasible. In our case, we got married in June, but it wasn't until my husband returned to Canada in October that he updated his status with CRA, which CRA had no issues with. So, they are not expecting you...

I agree with previous posters on getting expert advice from a tax professional. This is what CRA says on their website: Residency - Individuals Under Canada's tax system, your liability for income tax in Canada is based on your status as a resident or non-resident of Canada. Your residence...

Do you Skype? Pull and print your conversation logs if you do. Give as wide-ranging a sample as you can, going back as close to when you had to move apart as you can, to show communication has not flagged over time. If you email back and forth, pull those too. Ask your service provider if...

If he was successful at the interview and the only thing holding his visa up would be his expiring medicals, KG can request an extension to allow him to land, rather than putting him through the system again. Depending on where your spouse lives, they can request that he come to pick up his...

You posted it yourself. For common-law relationships (and marriage), the longer the period of separation without any cohabitation, the more difficult it is to establish that the common-law relationship (or marriage) still exists. So that last section is what you seem to be up against, and the...

Word, chickie!