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    Time outside Canada toward fulfilling citizenship requirement?

    Hello everyone, I am a Canadian PR and I have been outside of Canada (in the US) for about 3 years now. For the last 2 years, my salary was paid by a Canadian Government Fellowship (from Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, NSERC) to support my research studies in a Top Research...
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    Parents landing in Montreal without CSQ! is that a problem?

    Hi Everyone, My parents are issued visas for immigration through sponsorship by me. In their application they mentioned Toronto as the city they will land in. Now, I have relocated to Montreal and they want to come to Montreal. They don't have a CSQ (Certificate de Selection du Quebec for...
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    parents landing

    Thank you very much Sakamath for your response. So they will not be scrutinized over why they are not landing in the city that I (the sponsor) lives (or mentioned in the application)? That's my main concern, that if such thing comes up in conversation with the agent, they might be asked to show...
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    parents landing

    Thank you very much northyork_beaver for your info and the nice wishes :)
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    parents landing

    Hello everyone: I applied for sponsorship of my parents in 2008 and now they are at the immigration visa stage. They should do landing in a few months. I have changed jobs and now I am in a different city than what I put in their application where they would be landing. So if they land in...
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    Ottawa Case Processing Pilot Timeline

    Hello everyone: I applied for my parents sponsorship back in 2009 and recently sent the CIC additional documents. I have just received a letter that my sponsorship application has been approved and the file is being sent to Ottawa CPP. I wonder what the next steps are and how long it would take...
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    Sponsor's updated info for parents immigration

    Thanks Luck786. I read somewhere that they get your income from the year you applied for sponsorship and from the most recent year and they go with the highest one. Is that true? Cause that might give me a chance. Thanks,
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    Sponsor's updated info for parents immigration

    Hello all: I applied to sponsor my parents in 2009 and I have received a letter now asking additional info from my parents and from me they ask a tax form for the year I applied, which is no problem. Unfortunately, I got laid off last year and my income in 2011 was not enough for sponsorship...
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    What happens if someone doesn't use a visitor visa?

    Hello: I just have a quick question if anyone can answer I appreciate it. My parents applied for visitor visa (from Iran) to come visit me in Canada. The process took long so that we thought they might not get a visa. Then I decided to go visit them in Iran. After I bought my ticket, the...
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    Does dual US-Canada residence status disqualifies the Canadian citizenship App?

    Hello there: I have been in Canada as a student for the past 5.5 years and I got my PR status in Canada as of May 2008. Right after I submitted my PR application in 2007 I won the US Green Card in DV-Lottery an I have a US Green Card as of Nov. 2009. Now I have both US and Canada PR status. I...
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    Sponsoring parents

    Hello there: I am just wondering if CIC asks for updates on your sponsorship application (such as updating your address or sending the most recent T4 slips) after they open it? Or do they decide solely based on the info provided at the time of submitting the application? If so, how would they...
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    Canada PR works in US - applied to sponsor parents

    Hello everyone: I wonder if anyone knows how this works out: I am a Canada PR and next summer, after I apply for citizenship, I plan to go to work/study in a lab in US for a couple of years. I filed to sponsor my parents to immigrate to Canada about 10 months ago and according to the latest...
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    Applying for Citizenship in Canada - permanent resident in US

    Hi Leon: Thank you very much for your comment. In case having a US PR Card affect the application for Canadian citizenship, do you know at what stage of the process such a decision would be made? I mean would it be after I appear in front of a judge and I could probably explain the situation for...
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    Applying for Citizenship in Canada - permanent resident in US

    Hi everyone: I just found this forum and it seems very useful. I have a case: I am a permanent resident in Canada for about 1 year and a half now and since I was living in Canada for a few years before applying for permanent residence, I will be able to apply for citizenship at around July 2010...