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Hi all, my PR card is expiring in a few months so I thought I'd download the renewal application and start picking away at it. One thing has me stumped - time spent outside Canada. In the past 5 years I've been to the US by car 5 times; the US stamped my passport going in, but there's no...

Hi all, I'm asking for a friend who is visiting me this summer. She is Belgian with a Belgian passport but it is old and isn't one of the new biometric passports. Can she still visit Canada without a visa? (I know in the US they changed it about 10 years ago so that if you're from a...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiqQW9CdV8Q_dGNKMzZPT2laaVRvQm1NMGhkaERFUHc#gid=0 It seems like whole months have disappeared, and other members report that their rows have disappeared as well. Some of the numbers look funky too. Any idea what happened and more importantly, how...

This is not something a lot of people need, but I'm going to put this thread out there because it could help someone in the future. My VO (Manila) told me to send them a second Russian Police Certificate. The first PC we had sent was an original, obtained from the Russian Consulate in Tokyo...

Hello everyone! I finally got my COPR yesterday and am planning to flagpole at a US border this weekend. I am from Japan. Is it ok to put items on B4 that are coming from Japan, when I am flagpoling at a US border? Or it does not matter where I flagpole or where the items are from, as long as...

Hello everyone! I just checked ecas and it says decision made! My only concern is - I never got a request for Appendix A (or passport request - but I'm Japanese so I heard that they ask Appendix A of Japanese people, not the passport). Has anyone here heard of a positive decision from Manila...

Hi all, I was just compiling evidence of our genuine relationship, and I printed out some bank statements showing I wired most of my pre-marriage savings into our (husband and me) joint bank account. He is the sponsor. I just wondered if CIC would see this as evidence that our relationship is...

does anyone know about transferring a Japanese driver's license to an Ontario one while visiting and waiting for PR? Japan has an agreement with Canada (or Ontario) so I should be able to get (exchange) an Ontario license, but I thought that was possible only after PR. I recently applied for...

Hello everyone, I'm filling out IMM 5708 now to request and extension of my visitor status. I don't know what to put for "COMING INTO CANADA" Question 1 - "date and place of original entry to Canada". I assume that means my First visit to Canada? I don't remember. It was 20 something years...

Hello everyone, I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me if I can get a visitor's record AFTER I enter Canada. I am a Japanese citizen, I arrived here 3 months ago without a visa and they did not give me a visitor's record when I entered the country. (I can stay here as a visitor for...

Hi, My visa office (Manila) emailed me last week to request an additional document (Police certificate). I responded to the email asking for clarification (what, exactly, do they need?) and I received an automated message immediately confirming the receipt of the email, then another automated...

Hello everyone! I'm a February 2014 applicant, my visa office is Manila and I am Japanese, being sponsored by my Canadian husband. Today I got my first email from the VO in Manila - they asked me to provide a Russian Police Certificate within 45 days. The original Russian Police Certificate...

Hello! It just occurred to me - I know that CIC will only accept police certificates that have been issued within 3 months. Does that mean 3 months from the date our application is delivered to them or the date they actually open the package and send us AOR? One of my certificates is dated...

Hi all, My wife (Japanese citizen) is about to mail me her documents for the PR application. She noticed an issue with the translation of her civil status docs (as done by someone recommended and used by several people on this forum.) The "affadavit" or notarization says: "This is to certify...

Hi again all, In terms of organizing the application, where should supporting evidence be included? As I see it, we'd have one section for my application to sponsor, one section for my wife's application as principal applicant, and one section for supporting evidence of legitimate relationship...

Hi everyone, So my wife (as of Dec 24th!) and I are almost ready to submit our application... just awaiting a translation and her documents to be shipped across the pond. We are thinking that if we can submit by the end of the month, I might be approved as a sponsor by early March. Ideally they...

Hello everyone! Happy new year! My new wife (a Japanese citizen) and I are getting ready to submit our application package in the next couple of weeks. On form 1344 we need to provide the name of the person I am sponsoring and also the name as it appears on her passport. Technically those two...

Hi, and thanks for even reading this far. I am a Canadian citizen living in Canada. My fiancée is a Japanese citizen currently living in Japan. I’m flying there in December and we will get married there. The “ceremony” will essentially be only a document signing process, not a big ceremony. We...

Hi everyone, my fiance and I discovered this forum a few days ago and it's been a great source of information. It has helped us narrow down our options, and we thought it would be great if we could ask you a few questions of our own. I am a Japanese citizen and my fiancé is Canadian. My fiancé...