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You can only give biometrics once they send you a request for them, which will be after you submit. Best advice is to pay the fee and then if they don't request biometrics they will refund you.

If you have to send a translation of something, you still have to send the original document (or a copy of it) along with the certified translation. If you have access to a scanner you should be able to send a scan of the original via webform

Application (with OWP) submitted to Missisauga: March 24, 2019 Application Returned for missing document: May 17, 2019 Application accidentally submitted to Sidney: May 17, 2019 (We used Canada Post originally but went with a courier to resubmit, forgot to specify to husband which courier...

Yes. Etobicoke will send your wife an email (usually within 30 days or so but I don't know how busy Etobicoke is) with a date and time for her landing interview. I got the same letter on the 19th, and the Vancouver office emailed me on the 22nd with my interview date and time. Landed...

Congrats! Hope your wife gets her landing interview soon!

You're a citizen, so the government is obligated to provide for your health care. Your spouse, while a long term resident, is neither a citizen nor a legal resident, so she's not entitled to anything from the government unless she maintains legal status in Canada. Six months is the standard...

Yes, it is still true that lack of status can't be used as a reason for denial. Make sure when you apply that you are super clear about her lack of status, how long her visitor visa has been expired, etc. Do not lie to them or try to hide this information. There is a step in the application...

1. You should be fine to reapply for PR. They might be curious about why you renounced it/why it was revoked, but I doubt there would be any negative consequences. 2. You have until your COPR expires (which is a year from when you had your medical exam) to land. 3. I dont know if theres any...

Likely the only benefit in getting married in the US vs Canada is how long it takes to register the marriage and get the certificate to send off, which is more a question of exactly where you get married instead of the country. In BC it takes about 3 weeks, I've heard in Ontario it can take up...

I think they tell you specifically where to send it in the PPR, but I could be mistaken. All the PPR's that I've seen people copy/paste here designate a specific place to send it to.

I've almost always entered Canada via a land border and have never gotten a stamp in my passport, so I was worried about having proof. Good to know other people have the same concerns! Hopefully that explanation is sufficient, but it would be nice if someone who had been through an inland...

Got my interview appointment after 2-3 days. Application was approved on tuesday Nov 19, DM showed up in ECAS on wednesday Nov 20, and today we got our interview appointment for Friday December 5 at 5:30. I hope this means that the Vancouver office's backlog that I remember seeing in this...

After a very strange journey, we received DM on tuesday and now get to wait for an interview in Vancouver. Our bizarre timeline looks like: Application (with OWP) submitted to Missisauga: March 24, 2019 Application Returned for missing document: May 17, 2019 Application accidentally submitted...

You'll need to wait until you get your PR card, I don't think they will mail them abroad for you but I could be wrong.

Your PR is valid basically forever, unless you renounce it, become a citizen, somehow end up with a removal order against you, or no longer meet the residency requirements and have your PR status revoked. You have to physically reside in Canada for 730 days total out of a 5 year period (doesnt...

They take at least 6 weeks (but usually more) to be received and begin processing (mine took 8 weeks before we recieved AOR). You still likely have several weeks to go before you hear anything from IRCC

Medical and biometrics are sort of the same level. Some people get their request for biometrics first, some people get request for medical first. From what I've seen, they tend to come around the same time (or at least within a couple weeks of each other) but theres no predicting when that...

Received DM today, now to wait for an appointment with Vancouver! I'm a little nervous because my husband and I are headed down to the states next week for Thanksgiving and there's the no-guaranteed-reentry thing (never had a problem before and I have a visitor record valid through dec. 31...

You can apply inland as a visitor, it just requires the applicant to be currently in Canada and intending to stay through the entire process. The risk with inland is that if he has to leave for any reason, theres never any guarantee that he'll be allowed to reenter, even once he has an open...

1. In theory you should get a second AOR from NDVO. That doesnt always happen, so if it doesnt come, dont worry. It's just a formality. 2. As long as you disclosed it in your application, it shouldn't effect you. 3. I'm sure they do have criteria for which applications go where, but we dont...