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Absolutely agree with Donvalley. They might announce the Cut off date @ the very last moment or retroactive. Smoke and mirrors.

When people call the CIC call centre they will hear many different months, but basically it will go into effect between March2015 and September2015. They have chosen the word Approximately for a reason. They will let the people know few weeks before the cut off date, so it might be any time...

Many of the knowledgeable agents also say that it will be enforced in the second half of 2015, but when exactly nobody knows. Everybody who submit their application before Canada Day 2015 is most likely to be processed according to the old rule. Maybe the people will have also few extra weeks...

Yes it's true, but first let's see when this requirement will be enforced, maybe they will let the people know sometime next year... maybe...

Nobody knows when the bill will be effective. There is still no cut off date.

Probably they will announce the cut off date next year... the guessing is still there... nobody knows.

Basically they want the people to stay in Canada, after they've submitted the application until the oath. So in that way the residency will be a two stages game... residency obligation before the people apply and the time it takes until the oath.

That's why I said it in my previous post that the guessing game is still on. If a person start calling the CIC calling centre, they will say dates from 1st June, 2015 until 1st August 2015. That's big range of misinformation from them. Nobody knows when they will announce the real cut off...

The people who will be eligible to apply until 30.June.2015 are safe and will be processed according to the old rule.

According to most of the agents from the call centre the cut off date will be in the second half of 2015. That makes Canada day 2015 the earliest possible date. Unfortunately they still don't want to announce the cut off date officially... so the guessing game is still on.

It looks like they will not announce the implementation date this year. Maybe it is realistic to expect the announcement of the official date at springtime next year.

After the application is submitted the applicant have to stay in Canada for the majority of time until the oath if he doesn't want further delays. Unfortunately for different applications in different provinces this processing time may vary from months to years after the submission of the...

By the way I like the option for them to use "Intend to reside." like a second stage for residency requirement which can be used to delay the application if the applicant travels abroad for a long time after he has fulfilled the first stage of residency requirement. So in that way if the...

According to some agents who seem knowledgeable and who have more information, the calculation tool will stay the same until the very last day of June 2015. They say that it will be changed in the second half of 2015... so like PMM said it is normal that is still the same and it will stay the...

For me both ideas make sense (That we can expect delay and that there will be no delay). I don't trust politicians and I expect different scenarios.

At the end of the day everything might be just part of the political game for the elections. To me is also strange how fast they have passed the bill to become a law and after that such a huge delay of the actual implementation... It looks like from the beginning they have planned to get the...

When I talk with the call centre, most of the time they say that if my application is in the office on June 30 2015 it will be processed according to the 3/4 rule. They also say that no changes are planned for the residency calculation in the first half of 2015 so the changes are expected to be...

Absolutely agree but if you know in advance the date, the plans are easier to be done, because you will know for sure which rules you will follow. By the way I also think like Msafiri that the next year elections might be the driving factor for the cut off date so they can set it up earlier or...

If they say the date soon I'm fine with it... but the guessing game is the thing I don't like. I have nothing against the new law. Actually I like it.

There is another annoying thing ... when a person start to call them and if he speaks with different agents they will say completely different dates as of when they are planning to implement the rule next year. The reason according to me is that some agents have access to more information and...