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    Complicated PR renewal question - a year outside Canada and remote U.S. job

    hanks! This is what I am wondering. We don't care about super visa etc. Although she'll work from Canada for first few months of her U.S. job before moving to the U.S., she may get paid by her U.S. employer as an U.S.C. living in the U.S. When we apply for her PR renewal, Would her U.S. tax...
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    Complicated PR renewal question - a year outside Canada and remote U.S. job

    I am a Indian citizen and a Canadian PR. My wife is a U.S. citizen and a Canadian Permanent Resident. We both became Canadian PRs in 2018. I want to highlight the below before asking my question: 1) My wife has already spend around 10 months outside of Canada since becoming a PR in 2018, and is...
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    Impact of absences from Canada on PR renewal?

    1. Does that mean RO for PR renewal is not contingent on intentions for both PR RO obligations and citizenship RO obligations OR just PR RO obligations? 2. OH MY GOD. Just saw your signature thingy - do you live in Kitchener? PM me and I'll be more than glad to buy you coffee/lunch. Your advice...
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    Impact of absences from Canada on PR renewal?

    Inviting @badar14, @zardoz, @YVR123, @Regina, @mats, @scylla, @canuck_in_uk, @legalfalcon again to weigh in also. Thanks!
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    Impact of absences from Canada on PR renewal?

    So the fact that one tried to move to the U.S. has no impact if the RO is met?
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    Impact of absences from Canada on PR renewal?

    My spouse (U.S. citizen) & I (Indian citizen) received our Canadian PRs a year ago. We lived in Canada for 2 years on work visa before becoming Canadian PR. However Since receiving the PR my spouse stayed ~8 months in the U.S. since they sponsored me for an U.S. green card. My U.S. green card...
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    Affect of multiple applications for U.S. green card on Canadian PR renewal/citizenship

    I wonder if you would like to update your answer now that we have a new government? Any new insights we can benefit from?
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    Can landlord deny me the letter?

    I am told it is an standard practice in Ontario to roll over the one-year lease to a month-to-month basis upon completion if the tenant is still occupying the rental unit. So, IRCC must be aware of this and it shouldn't be a surprise to them? And of course, we have plenty of utility bills etc...
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    Can landlord deny me the letter?

    I live in Ontario. My spouse & I signed a joined lease with an apartment building (owned by a firm headquartered in another city). The original lease period was 1 year. At the completion of 1 year lease, I approached the manager and asked to renew the lease. I was told there is no need since if...
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    Counting days outside Canada towards Citizenship - FullTime PhD Student

    We live together in Canada. I know that for green card my wife may be forced leave her Canadian job and move to U.S. again ahead of me. That is the concern. In case my green card is denied, she will have to come back to Canada. If this happens I am worried about renewing her PR card. She will...
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    Counting days outside Canada towards Citizenship - FullTime PhD Student

    I see that you are a U.S. to Canada immigrant, so can you please answer my question since I am in same situation? My wife & I are both Canadian PRs. After becoming PR, my wife moved back to U.S. to sponsor me for a green card. She stayed in the U.S. for 8 months. I got my green card but we...
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    Affect of multiple applications for U.S. green card on Canadian PR renewal/citizenship

    If one has say around 850 days in 4.5 years of PR when applying for renewal. And they had a full time job in Canada during most of these 850 days in Canada. The absences include with 1 long (8 months) stay outside Canada, and other shorter trips outside Canada, what are the chances of facing any...
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    Affect of multiple applications for U.S. green card on Canadian PR renewal/citizenship

    My spouse (U.S. citizen) & I (Indian citizen) received our Canadian PRs a year ago. However Since receiving the PR my spouse stayed ~8 months in the U.S. since they sponsored me for an U.S. green card. My U.S. green card was approved but we decided not to move to the U.S. and preferred to stay...
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    form CIT 520 timeline

    Hi Folks, I am an Indian citizen married to a U.S. citizen. We both arrived in Canada in 2015, attended graduate school, got PGWP and later both of us got our Canadian PRs. We landed in May 2018. My wife went back to U.S. a month after that for ~7 months from June 2018 - Jan 2019, as we had...
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    Understanding RQ

    Hi Folks, I am an Indian citizen married to a U.S. citizen. We both arrived in Canada in 2015, attended graduate school, got PGWP and later both of us got our Canadian PRs. We landed in May 2018. My wife went back to U.S. a month after that for ~7 months from June 2018 - Jan 2019, as we had...
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    Commuter green card eligibility

    Does anyone here know how often one is required to travel to the job in US on a minimum to keep the commuter green card status? I have a full time job offer in US asking me to travel up to 40% to the US. Do I qualify for a commuter green card?
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    Live in WA work in BC; keep both US & Canada PR for citizenship

    Does anyone here know how often one is required to travel to the job in US on a minimum to keep the commuter green card status? I have a full time job offer in US asking me to travel up to 40% to the US. Do I qualify for a commuter green card? Inviting @ImmiToCanada to answer. Thanks!
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    CANADIAN citizenship and US green card

    Does anyone here know how often one is required to travel to the job in US on a minimum to keep the commuter green card status? I have a full time job offer in US asking me to travel up to 40% to the US. Do I qualify for a commuter green card? Inviting @ozonezone234 @scylla @frange @hawk39 to...
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    Does US green card application negatively effect the Canadian citizenship application?

    1. Were you a green card holder when you applied for Canadian citizenship? 2. How long did it take for you to get Canadian citizenship? Does US GC cause delay in citizenship processing times?
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    Held US green card(gave it up) as a Canadian PR, will it affect PR renewal/citizenship?

    Thank you so much for your advice. This is pretty complicated - but I wonder if having a "US immigrant visa - IR1 visa" on your passport, which wasn't used(hence not stamped) have the same effect as having had a US green card but giving it up formally? For context - Once one obtains an IR1 visa...