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Family members who could be sponsored along with the primary applicant will need to undergo security and medical checks, even if they are non-accompanying right now. For a spousal/conjugal applicant such as your partner, that means any minor children regardless of custody arrangements. Family...

They don't. In my own case, I went from no progress to DM in under a month. From the GCMS file I received, my file had been moved to processing by the start of June but none of the checks (save for medical) had begun; I received DM on June 30. That meant that eligibility, security, and...

Interestingly, I just received my electronic file. As of the beginning of June, none of my checks had even been started -- this was when the file was generated. By June 30, I had received decision made. Of perhaps greatest interest to other applicants, it appears that the unsolicited copy of...

Oh! You are indeed correct! I have edited my post above to strike out the very bad advice, and I apologize for any confusion I may have caused. I wish that the requirement were more conspicuous. It is indeed on the document checklist, but I can't find it in any of the instruction guides.

A permanent resident with condition 51 is still a full permanent resident. The condition is just a way by which the PR status can be investigated and revoked, if the new PR and their sponsor cease living together.

Those you can and should wait for a request on, unless there's some reason you think CIC would have questions about you living together. (Edit: The preceding was incorrect.) Remember that "authenticity" is a separate check than a common-law relationship -- CIC only really cares about the...

Yes. Only one person (yourself) is applying to obtain permanent residency. That's for the sponsorship of dependents, which has an income requirement. There, the statutory declaration certifies that the co-signing common-law partner is eligible to be a co-signer. Form IMM5409 (pdf, English...

It depends on the precise nature of the relationship and the processing visa office. Pictures are not a required part of the application, but they are often encouraged to show a relationship's legitimacy. How much the visa office will care about their presence or absence depends on how...

The CoPR also has the applicant's photo physically attached via a glue-patch. Although it is now printed on plain paper rather than fancy immigration paper, it isn't something that can be wholly electronic.

Damnit, yes I meant that. Even when I was trying to specifically avoid the confusion, I fell right back into that linguistic trap.

Likewise no representative. The double-address for the applicant is also obviously not a guaranteed indicator of in-process status, since I (as the applicant) have only one address listed yet I have my COPR in-hand.

The parent poster could be talking about the sponsorship approval part of the process rather than the PR application itself. If this is indeed the case and the file has not yet been transferred to the visa office, it would be well past the ordinary processing time. In that case, the CIC call...

Logging in as the sponsor, I see separate boxes for the home and mailing addresses (showing the same address). As the applicant, I see only the home address box. In both cases, the relevant application (IMM0008 for the applicant, IMM1344 for the sponsor) was filled in with only the mailing...

I am absolutely ecstatic about this. It seems so silly since my application was ultimately processed "normally," but there's something about the uncertainty of the process that is stressing. To put some additional reference information out there for the benefit of others, my COPR and medical...

COPR received in this evening's post. CPC-Ottawa issued it on July 20, and it was postmarked the next day.

The LMIA is not something that you apply for, it is something that your prospective employer would apply for. That is their authorization to hire a foreign worker, whether or not it happens to be you.

It's a generic instruction guide. Some nations issue national IDs to all citizens as a matter of due course; the decentralized United States does not do this. Updating the instruction guides with respect to each possible country of origin would be a significant task, and there's no guarantee...

That's a good point. If this comes through in the application, CIC will possibly look at it closely for signs of this being a relationship of convenience. It's not obvious how a "normal" courtship (suitably defined with respect to the unspecified cultural norms) would have happened with the...

No. The US does not have a national identity document.

Although that won't affect the ongoing application. For immigration purposes, the ages of children are "frozen" when they are added to the application, as otherwise we'd have a perverse scenario where a long process makes some kids "age out" of eligibility.