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First I've seen on how much extra they are adding to reduce processing times in the future though

Yep bring proof of employment and a return ticket and you should be fine.

Do you have a job that you will be returning to? Or anything that links you to the country your coming from such as home ownership etc. If you do bring evidence of that just in case. But you will just be asked why you are coming to Canada, who/where you will be staying, how long etc. If you...

Don't apply for a TRV, the ESTA I imagine is like the States where you will get it pretty much straight away (presuming you have no criminal issues) and from what I've seen that are pretty good about letting you visit your spouse while a PR application is well and truly in process. Make sure you...

Exactly, how can you have a UCI without AOR? Do you mean the receipt number?

You would have to choose common law if you were to apply now, as you are not married.

Would you agree that helping out at a food bank or animal shelter is purely volunteer based? I think its pretty widely considered that those are not usually remunerated positions.

Congratulations!

Yeah those are the kind of things I was leaning towards doing. I thought the line becomes more blurry though if for example I was to volunteer in an administrative position for say a shelter or food bank. Or say tutoring at a local library, despite all the people doing it being volunteers...

So do we think that the reason they've made this change is to pretty much safeguard themselves from people calling them once their application went past their visa offices listed time?

Interested in what types of volunteering people did while in Canada awaiting their application to be processed. I know CIC has quite strict guidelines on what is allowed. Is it always best to ring up their contact centre and get confirmation on if a particular type of volunteering is allowed first?

You send in the form giving consent for the CIC to get the police check

I'm pretty sure they send an email the day after to everyone automatically. I got one the day after I submitted mine on a Saturday.

Anyone recently got their PR through the Sydney office? Interested in how long recent applications have been taking.

I doubt that new applications sent in will get their SA in 10 days. What will happen is that it means 10 days from AOR, which will still take 50 days or whatever. I imagine there will be a lot of people who will be expecting to hear from the CIC within two weeks of sending of their application...

So really they're saying it take 10 days to assess the sponsor, but about 40-50 days to get round to assessing the sponsor.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/3900ETOC.asp

Well have you lived together for at least 12 months at a time?

Has to be inland right if it took 4 months to get AOR and they didn't do a upfront medical

In one of the forms it asks where he is residing and then gives the option to state what his status his, with one of the options being visiting.