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You are looking to wait around 9 months until you obtain a COPR (as per the CIC website), give and take a couple of months. August is somewhat unrealistic and there is no need to be worried after only 4 months into it. However, not everyone has the same timeline and while Spanish citizens may be...

A Canadian passport would never be issued if you are a Canadian PR. Once you become a Canadian you cease to be a Canadian PR and that is when you are eligible for a Canadian Passport.

It seems you may be leaving important information out. Why were you given a temporary Canadian passport? Temporary passports are usually and rarely issued abroad now, where available, but normally a TD is issued both for Canadians a PR's alike; it might have been different in the past but only...

CIC will most likely not act on you if you make a request for Verification of Status (VOS) because they will only be looking for the document that proves you ever became a PR (which can also be done by showing your record of landing or COPR). It seems someone has told you the VOS is valid to...

It seems that you left after you applied for citizenship, it was approved but you never took the oath, right? Taking the oath is part of becoming a citizen, which means that in fact, you never became a citizen as you abandoned the process over 10 years ago. This is something that you seem to...

Finding a job while in Canada is not easy even when authorized to work, and close to impossible if you are not. There are many reasons for this. Because of the large influx of qualified immigrants, Canadian employers tend to over extend their search, looking for the most qualified candidate that...

Even though we may assume that the friend you are talking about is the Canadian citizen, it may also sound like your friend is the non-Canadian and that the her spouse (the Canadian) is living in the US; because the situation is not 100% clear, one cannot be too specific about the situation, but...

You can claim the vehicles on your forms as part of your items as long as your name's on them, regardless of your husband's name being on them as well. My Canadian spouse lived with me in the US and once my PR was approved we moved together to Canada. I claimed the entire truck's contents as...

I would think it does not mater as long as that date is not after CIC receives the application. In other words, if it was dated April 30th and CIC got it April 29th it might look invalid, right?

As a matter of fact, if your medicals are about to expire before your case is finalized, say in less than 3-6 months, the officer handling your file will request a renewal of your medicals. Medicals then need to be received to finalize your file. In this case you will usually have a year...

TRV's are approved only on the basis of the person who requests that visa, the applicant. In this case, your girlfriend. A person that is unemployed, has no money and has a boyfriend in Canada is a huge red flag for CIC because in their eyes the risk of that citizen overstaying is extremely...

Ioza, you sent me a PM that I have not been able to respond because your inbox is full. You need to delete old PMs in order to receive new ones.

So it seems that the court's interpretation of "accompanying a Canadian" means that the PR MUST leave Canada to accompany her husband but in the sense of "coming/going with or along with" him. That means that she must have left with you, which she clearly didn't do. I do not think that the...

Right, sorry about that, I have been reading so many posts asking about re-entering Canada as a visitor with a visa-exempt passport because of an expired PR card that I got confused. My apologies.

Has she landed? Why is December 2017 so important? For the purposes of the RO, the time spent with a Canadian spouse abroad counts for the RO, regardless of how that union came about, before or after the PR left Canada. So if she landed already, her RO is being met by the time she lives with you...

In practice, it seems many employers will only ask for your SIN. This is probably because an expired PR card does not mean your PR status is gone. Some, however, will ask for your status in Canada right when employment is formalized (as it is not legal to ask for your status at any other time)...

Boarding and entering are two different things. I am curious to know if you have ever entered as a visitor, which is what this Australian mate is trying to do because his PR card will be expired upon return.

Below that there is another section on the same page that says: Permanent resident (PR) cards All Canadian permanent residents travelling outside Canada are required to carry a valid Canadian permanent resident (PR) card or a valid visa, in addition to a valid passport, to return to Canada by...

I am guessing you immigrated to Canada under FSW program. After landing each person's immigration status is treated separately. Your wife's or daughter statuses are not in jeopardy due to your change of PR status, nor it will change their ability to become citizens. However, if you try to renew...

True, thanks. So before this regulation, the upper hand was on the visa-exempt citizens, who after lapsing on their RO could fly back to Canada as tourists, enter the country happily if not questioned, and then they can reinstate their RO. Except Americans (always except Americans), all...