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kingkong1 has just summarized the experience of my first 5 months here. Over this period, I applied to each relevant company at least twice and only got two interview calls (both from call centres for a minimum wage jobs). I worked 2 months at a call centre too but left voluntarily because of...

J'attendais le chauffeur se presenter a la fin comme medicin/ingenieur immigrant; apres je me suis souvenue que c'etait une blague francaise et pas canadienne.

It took me 45 calendar days to get the card. Upon landing they told me it will take 6 weeks, so I had to call the call centre twice ater 6 weeks expired. The card was sent exactly the day I phoned them for the second time.

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Are you sure it is PR form and not the B4 customs form that they ask you to prefill? My COPR only asked me to fill customs forms.

background checks also have expiration date. Since 5 months passed from your medicals, it suggests that they started a new round of checks or are still waiting for confirmation from external agencies. What is your visa office currently? Paris? And tell me what is the last line on your ECAS - is...

5 months after medicals is average and normal. I got visa 5 months after medicals, but I was from a relatively fast visa office (London). They are doing security checks and waiting for confirmation of your clean criminal record from a bunch of different organizations - there is nothing you can...

No lawyer can get you a faster processing. Having a representative does not accelerate the process. But what a good lawyer can do is avoid unnecessary delays (e.g. returned files due to missing documents or incorrect application forms).

The officer will fill the PR card form himself. You just need a mailing address.

Federal skilled worker is not honey either. Remember they returned all backlog files to people who have been cherishing hopes for many years. Immigration system resembles more and more the lottery, it is like jumping onto the departing train. If I filed my application 2 months later than I did...

No it will not affect you. The rules changed many times since I got my CSQ and it did not affect me. You got your CSQ and you are done with provincial part of your application.

You still have time to make it fluent. Almost any job in QC demands fluent French . Yes, Quebecois speak slower than French, but their accent distorts words so much that you struggle to understand simple words. Similar to Scottish English - after having lived in Scotland for 5 years, I still...

100% French.

You will pass landing procedures at your first point of entry - Ottawa. However, 50 min is clearly not enough. You will have to pass immigration interview and then customs, not to mention all queues. You have to allow at least 3 hours for your connection (remember flights often get delayed)...

The interview is intended to verify your application and your knowledge of Quebec. So you will start with easy questions, e.g. can you describe your education/job? why your job does not match your education? where did you learn French? Then you will proceed to the Quebec part: "Why you want to...

Do you mean federal skilled worker class? They have different point scale and have many more applications than Quebec skilled worker pool. So when they accummulated an enormous backlog of files, they decided to give up on the old files, because people who applied ten years ago no longer have the...

My officer was typing all the time. I felt very relaxed as nobody was watching me. I imagined I was talking to myself to relieve stress ;D

I am quebec skilled worker and signed a contract before landing that I will live in Quebec only. Besides, I do not find the situation in other provinces significantly better as I follow my friends' stories there. Wherever we go, we face the same scepticism towards foreign credentials, where...

At the interview they will apply the point system which was effective at the time when you applied. This is what happened to me.

I am already in francophone province - Quebec. Yes, there is no bank, consultancy company or college left in Quebec where I have not applied yet.