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This is your best bet, Applying in Canada is no guarantee of having the application processed at CPC-Ottawa. CIC often sends applications abroad based on the applicant's citizenship and long-term residence, rather than their location at the moment of submission, with considerable random...

There have been exceptions, but the typical expiry of the COPR coincides with the medical validity. Based on your timeline, your medicals would probably expire in August.

Canadian domestic paperwork is largely indifferent between "married" and "common-law" statuses, save for family law (divorce) and estate law (inheritance). When having a partner matters, such as for tax purposes, common-law and married spouses are equivalent.

I also ordered notes at the beginning of June, so I expect them within a week or so. I'll share the results once I receive and parse them.

There's very little that you can do. If you're leasing, the company technically owns the car and by residing with it in Canada you're breaking the terms of the lease. In addition, it would not be legal to "leave the NY plate on" for a year. Provinces generally require that residents register...

Good, that means you can start the process at your earliest convenience. That would be fine. CIC recognizes that common-law couples sometimes have to live apart for immigration reasons, although they could question whether the separation actually indicates that the relationship has broken...

From your description, you have been cohabitating for nearly three years. This more than satisfies the cohabitation requirement for a common-law relationship. Shared leases, a joint bank account, and photographic history are also good documentation factors. Presuming your girlfriend is a...

It's mostly that good fortune is not a limited resource, and the world is a better place if more of it goes around. "Fault" is, I think, too strong of a word here. Ottawa has never promised that even routine applications will be processed in-order, and looking back on last year's summer crush...

Re: IF PPR requested but passport not in hand,Help? The most important thing is not to do nothing. If you fail to respond, CIC can interpret that as abandoning your application. If you do not think you will receive your renewed passport in time to satisfy the request, then you should contact...

Was your first in-person meeting with your sponsor the first communication you ever had with them? The question is asking you for the extent of your relationship to your spouse before your first meeting. It is one of several that CIC uses to assess the credibility of the relationship, to look...

$deity no. I'm happy for you. Although I'd selfishly prefer to be the beneficiary of the rapid processing time, good things happening to other people is indirectly good news for myself and everyone else still waiting for DM and COPR: it means that Ottawa's moving.

Well, if they are repeating last year's pattern then it's not all bad news. According to the Ottawa spreadsheet, approvals were issued en masse from June through August of 2014, covering the vast majority of applicants who applied as of June of 2014. Applications which received a document...

Yes. This is possible, however you will need to complete the portion of the sponsorship application that was waived as a Québec applicant. In particular, you will need the Option-C from Revenue Canada, and you will probably need to complete a new IMM-1344. Your CSQ, if you have already...

As listed, that would be DM for both stages. ECAS separates the sponsor approval and permanent residence applications into separate boxes, and fruit's DM is clearly under "application for permanent residence."

Congratulations and no small amount of envy to those with recent DMs and COPR-receipts!

You may wish to contact Canadian insurers for a quote. Bridge insurance for newcomers until OHIP eligibility is fairly common, and $500/mo is rather steep. Additionally, if your spouse is employed with benefits then you should see when you can be added. OHIP does not by itself cover...

Will you still have private insurance for the US after you land? Depending on the extent of care you need, it may be less expensive to cancel the US insurance if you have it and pay out-of-pocket for Canadian care. While more painful than health-care-having Canadians like, the out-of-pocket...

If you and your bride-to-be have lived together for a year, then you may already be common-law partners. In that case, she should be included on your PNP/PR application. If that is not the case and you land before the wedding, then you will land as a single immigrant and then sponsor her...

So you don't have feelings for your wife, you do have feelings for a long-term girlfriend, and one of the first things you did after getting back to Canada after the marriage was commit infidelity? Perhaps something is not coming across because of a language barrier, but this seems exactly like...

"Conjugal partner" applicants have the hardest time because that category is an exceptional one. CIC needs to see a really good reason that the couple in question couldn't be married or common-law, and as one notable trap "we're not yet ready to marry" is not a valid reason. I strongly...