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I don't have an AIP yet but I've had an Ontario driver's license for months. All you need is your passport and, depending on your country of origin, proof of a good driving record and/or taking a road test. It's no big deal, I highly recommend it - after all you'll want to have one eventually...

I know exactly what you mean. I feel just about the same way. And while we sit and do nothing no one gains; not us, not our spouses and families to whom we have to depend, and not Canada whose economy could be improved by us working, making money and paying taxes. But we can't help it, and once...

Can anyone verify this either way: Once you receive the AIP (at the end of stage 1), but before the end of stage 2, can you leave and return to Canada safely?

Other people have given their accounts on how it is to have only one salary in the family. Then the situation really depends on external resources - how much each of us has saved before coming, how much support we can get from our families and, of course, how well we can budget and manage our...

It's counted toward the date of submission, not when they happen to open it. :) Else they'd all be expired.

As far as I know, no, because Canadian citizens aren't expected to even have a passport when they fly in Canada. There are no border services in the airports you'd be flying into.

I'm on my wife's benefits from work as well. They are fine and cover 80% of specific expenses (such as dental), which is pretty good. However they don't cover things like hospital stays etc at all, so I had to get a private insurance plan which does. It's an extra expense I'm not very happy...

I contacted our local MP's office who made some phonecalls on our behalf. The problem is the strike even for in-Canada applications. See, although the processing center at Veg isn't striking, they're using the employees there to work on non-inland applications in the mean time. The lady I spoke...

I can live with 10 months. I don't like it but I can live with it. What I'm concerned about is that, closer to December, they'll simply change the web page to say "14 months" instead, and so on.

Regarding driver's licenses, since I had to deal with mine... There is no correlation between the immigration stuff and having a driver's licence in Canada. For some countries you can simply exchange your current one for a Canadian license. Right at first you can are allowed to drive for, if I...

I'm paying for private health insurance in the mean time, as it'd be pretty catastrophic if I had to be hospitalized because I slipped and broke my leg or something without one. But what I find really frustrating is that I sent my resume out when I first arrived (and thought LMO's were easier...

Well, and the applications *cost* so much money. Just to apply, even without the medical tests, it's a fair bit of cash for every single case. Surely they can fund the department better to handle the workload?

Unfortunately when it was the 8th for months I had assumed it was a mistake. That they were simply not updating the web page. Now that it's clear they moved 4 days' worth of the queue in 3-4 months... it's unsettling.

I don't see how even that's possible if the marker moves 4 days since April, you know? It's not 3-4 extra months I'm upset about (although it hurts - I can't remain unemployable forever) but the fact there's no actual realistic expectation of how long this might take. For all we know at the...

Hey folks, Our inland Family Class application has been in for about six months now at the Vag Center. That's about what the average waiting time is supposed to be, but the date of 'currently processing' applications on the CIC web site had remained set to October 8 for a long time - ever since...

Thanks for the quick answers, everyone. In case this may help someone else avoid the same issue: Other than the signature on the form what we also had to fix was how the information regarding my military service (I'm Greek, it's mandatory for all male citizens) was listed. Namely, instead of...

As an in-Canada applicant to be sponsored by my Canadian wife, I had our application returned to me yesterday after almost two months since sending it out because a form wasn't signed and they wanted the military service details written differently. The question is, although we were given a...

I'm applying inland. I'm already in Canada.

Here's are two questions in case anyone can answer them. 1) I'm about to file my application for Permanent Residence as a Landed Immigrant in Canada (I'm already in the country). In the "Generic Application Form for Canada" IMM 008 (07-2012) E, it asks me to fill in the field "2. Immigration...

First of all, thank you for the prompt answers, I much appreciate it. There are two things I wanted to inquire about: 1) I don't understand why the in-land process specifically hinges on the applicant not leaving Canada yet doesn't grant you some sort of temporary permit to stay until it's...