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You're going to complain 3.5 months after processing started and five months after you applied?

I like being wrong, it's why I hang out here.

Nothing you say here is wrong -- but at the same time, the problems Canada had with the TFW program were entirely predictable. Every single country that imports a caste of workers who have no rights to become permanent, and can be paid less than regular workers, develops those problems. It's a...

This is probably wrong, but doesn't the 'living with a Canadian spouse abroad' clause say something like "accompany your Canadian spouse"? In this case, it sounds like the Canadian spouse accompanied the PR.

I agree with almost everything in this original post -- for myself, I did my B.A. at the University of Toronto in my early 20s as an international student, and when I immigrated to Canada 20 years later (after many years of living outside the United States) it felt like coming home. I found the...

No, they don't require them under the old rules, to accept an application and give an AOR. But, they might ask for them after they start processing.

Yeah, it's really stressful. I couldn't remember if we signed our pictures or not, and I'm almost certain we didn't include the information about the photography studio. I worried about it for a few days and then made myself forget. Try not to fret about things you can't control . . .

If this is relevant, and I'm not sure it is, I doubt that it is important. If someone comes here from another continent, lives here, and just lets their passport expire while living and working, I doubt it's an issue. If someone is an American, or has a green card, and perhaps kind of an...

I don't understand, why would expired passports affect a Canadian citizenship application? Or do you mean that you used them for one of the two forms of ID? I can see in that later case that being expired might cause an issue.

In the comments of the Residence Calculator you are asked to explain any secondary trips -- for example, the week that I spent in Germany while spending 10 months in the United States.

'Divorced Philippine partner' is the turtle-on-its-back of conjugal partner examples . . . But in the example, if they lived together for a year, would they be common law even though she has another husband? Cheers . . .

There is no legal barrier to them getting married. Conjugal partner is for a situation like this -- a Canadian man meets a woman in the Philippines who is separated from their husband. There is no divorce in the Philippines, so they can't get married. They aren't common law no matter how long...

What is your status in Canada right now?

Three things I forgot to mention. One is that you could also look in the Oliver area, between Jasper Avenue and the river. I know there is at least one school in there, and there are a lot of apartment buildings. It's nicer than the area I mentioned before, close to the river valley, the...

I live in Edmonton -- there are large numbers of apartment houses in the many blocks to the North and North-East of Grant MacEwan. Many of these are cheaper than $900/month for a small apartment. However, to find a place, you just have to walk around or drive around and look to see which ones...

No, I know. I couldn't figure out what was going on either -- what I assumed was that ari5323 was arguing (maybe implicitly) that because there weren't too many people left in our database to get AOR, there shouldn't be too many in the real world either. Then someone else mentioned 'thousands...

You don't have to assume any percentage at all -- only that the processing of applications (i.e. the ratio of applicants who have received AOR to those who have not received AOR) is the same for the people on the forum as it is in real life. I think that is a defensible assumption to make --...

I understand how upsetting this discussion is to you -- status uncertainty or danger is one of the worst things in the world to live with. However, at this point, you need something apart from this forum: a lawyer. All the words that Dpenabill chooses, such as 'appears', mean that his advice...

I don't know anything about the job bank, but in addition to using it I would look on Indeed.ca, and I would also look on the provincial web sites of places you want to live (for government jobs). When I first landed in Canada, I was excited to find some sort of online job bank in various...

That's an odd system. Normally interest and collateral are supposed to pay the bank for their risk; do Middle Eastern banks use this approach because of the Islamic prohibition on charging interest? And are these loans, with the cheques, interest-free?