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All I can do is give you some advice about your PR application, although obviously you have problems that run deeper than that, and for that I am sorry :( Since you applied three months ago, what this means is that you would fall under the new regulation (as of October 25, 2012) that requires...

Actually, Rainbow Bridge does have a Nexus lane :) But it doesn't do much good if you're still sitting in traffic just to GET to it :P Indeed :) Yeah, the immigration person told my wife that exact same thing...that she has everything she needs now to apply for the SIN, so hopefully I won't...

how about a PR haiku? inland or outland both take real long, one more so waiting really sucks

Congrats Buffy! My wife landed yesterday too :) We weren't too far from you as we went to the Rainbow Bridge to take care of it. Amusingly enough, the hardest part for us was getting out of the country -- there was construction in Niagara Falls and about a half-hour wait to get to the border...

Yes, my wife applied outland....and to add the final piece to the spreadsheet, she has landed today! :) Put me in yellow!

You can apply to extend your visit, yes, if that's what you mean :) (don't just arbitrarily extend it by not leaving). And yes, the Outland app gives you this flexibility of movement. Every time you re-enter Canada you are doing so as a visitor. The Outland app doesn't care where you are so...

Not at all. You WILL want to get it done at some point, since keeping a PR requires you live here two of every five years, but I'm fairly sure CIC isn't actively tracking what your mailing address is after you land. Also, your PR card, I think, is supposed to be mailed to a Canadian address, so...

Got the COPR in the mail today!!!!!! "Honey, we're going to Niagara Falls tomorrow!"

It probably wasn't clear from my first response, but she has to sign it too :)

You do have to sign the form. You sign the last one only. The second one is actually there if the spouse if a co-signer (i.e. if you and your wife are sponsoring a parent, for example) which you are not. You are the applicant, not a co-sponsor. She'd have to fill it out and then mail it to you...

Legal status, in your case, basically means that you are here as a visitor. You'll either have a stamped passport (good for up to 6 months) or a Visitor Record, which you might receive when you cross the border. It means that if the border guard stamped your passport 7 months ago, you're still...

I was probably too hasty with the passport advice...after all, my wife did get her passport changed while she was up here and they mailed it here. So..yeah...goldfish memory. Anyways, you just need to make sure that you have a legal status in Canada for a decent duration to get that done (I...

Yep. It's a process. Welcome to the PR app club. We have jackets :) You can keep asking questions here. This forum is all about Family-class sponsorship, so just about anything you come up with would probably be relevant. Newfoundland, I guess? :) You can change your US passport as soon as...

This is just my opinion, and the inland app thing is still very murky to me, so take this as one possible interpretation. You need to do what Screech suggested and apply for a Judicial Review. There's a brief link here which talks about how to go about doing it (short answer seems to be: you...

OP = Original Poster. That's you :)

My wife did the same :) So, just to re-iterate...you can have the fingerprints TAKEN digitally, but you still need the printout. You just don't have to get your fingers dirty :)

I'm fairly sure they will resume processing (within their normal timelines and workloads) once they receive the info. It's not a 45-day timeout. :)

As you have been living with your current partner continuously for at least one year you would qualify as common-law in the eyes of CIC...even if you have another marital status. Shorter answer: he can sponsor you :)

Just an addendum to that... There would be one reason you would wait -- if you plan on immediately changing your name after you get married. More specifically, if your passport name will be updated right after you get married. The name on all your application forms must match the name in your...

Basically yes, although there's no reason you have to wait until you're married to get that stuff :) The FBI check in particular takes on average 6 weeks so the sooner you get it done the better. It will be valid for three months to be sure the app gets sent in within that time. If you're...