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So I got slightly good news yesterday from London with this email: Dear Mr Hafstad, Please be advised that we are now ready to issue your Confirmation of Permanent Residence, as you may be aware the validity of your COPR is determined by your medical validity. Your medical is due to expire...

Hi Sweden Thanks a lot for sharing your notes on your process,very interesting! By traveling do you mean that you went to these places where you got the police records for longer than 6 months? I only sent in police certificates for the places where I spent longer than 6 months in.

Hi DGT Thanks for your piece of sharing! I have only lived in Sweden, France and China so far but what I am really afraid of is if VO CSIS have asked for information from the Chinese government. If they have I could only imagine when I get my PR, if there is any government body that is more...

Warning: Rant post I just wonder if anyone have any speculations in what the VO is doing once they open an application. Obviously some applications are so straight forward that when they open the application and go through it applicants are pretty much approved straight away. Now if the...

Just a quick question for anyone, Checking my application status it says my application was received October 15 2012, my sponsor was approved sometime in November or early December 2012 and the file was transferred to London according to CIC. It still says application received in the system...

Thanks for all the replies and motivation!! Just out of curiosity does anyone have the link to CICs website where it says that it is okay to visit your spouse in Canada while you apply outland?? Thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot for all the answer, I know I have the law on my side but that immigration officer clearly did not know what she was talking about. My file is already in London so I hope they will finish their work quickly there.

Thanks for the answers! Still not sure what to do. Should I just wait until London VO makes their decision and hope for the best, if they decline it I know I can appeal but I do not know how long that process is? The truth is that I do not have much linking me to Sweden except my family, this...

Hi I need some opinions on what I am gonna do. I have applied for family class sponsorship outside of Canada via the London office and right now my file is in London for the step 2 process. Me and my fiancee decided to land in Canada before my application went through for family reasons as...

Hi Sweden As another fellow Swede trying to get the PR I am looking for some answers to my many wonders. You seem to know a great deal about this. I was happy to see that the London VO do not make a PPR for visa free nationals likes Swedes so if I dont get an interview request I could...

I have discovered that visa free nationals to Canada do not get a PPR from the VO during the processing, they simply get a mail from the VO with the PR once it is finished. Now this is applicable in London for Swedish citizens which is a VO for many visa free nationals to Canada. Since I am a...

Computer geek, You say you can have the medical done anywhere in the world. If I choose the outland spousal sponsorship and designate London as the VO for my application even though I am Swedish can I still do the medical in China where I am at the moment???

What if I can send a copy with my Chinese residency permit to go with my application to prove this? I just cannot understand how the Canadian embassy can think foreigners can be without their passport in China for so long.

Hi all I am applying for a PR and is using the Canadian Embassy in Beijing as my VO since currently am living in Shanghai. Swedish citizen. From what I understand from others applying at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing once the process is coming closer to the end the embassy will request for...

Hi I really don't understand how a foreigner living in China OUTSIDE Beijing can even imagine leaving the passport with residency visa at the Canadian Embassy for more than a week. Currently the ONLY way of identification in China is your passport so without that one yes you cannot leave the...

I really do not understand how the VO in Beijing can request the passport from foreigners living in China and then hold it at the embassy for weeks or months. Everyone knows that foreigners need their passport for air travel and hotels. I have almost now decided to use the VO in Beijing for my...

Hi I hope someone can help me here, I have lived in HK and need a police certificate from there to apply for my PR. The HK police wont issue me a police certificate unless I have a written request from the relevant authority maybe in this case CIC and after they have received this request...

Another issue that I have Since I lived in HK before I need a police record from there. It is fairly straight forward to get but I need a request from the Canadian embassy or government to present to the HK police to issue such a police record for my PR application. I have tried to contact...

Hi Fencesitter Thanks for your help, The F-visas are sometimes used for interns as well without getting paid so that is why I was on the F-visa. I will try to get a letter from the police authority in China stating that they do not issue police records for foreigners without a residency...

Hi all I have some questions that I hope someone can help me answer. I am a Swedish citizen current living in Shanghai. Me and my Canadian fiancee have decided to move to Canada and is now applying for the PR for me. Because of family reasons we have decided to leave China before the Canadian...