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I have a theory. I'm guessing that there are occasionally reviews of the various visa offices against the metrics they collect, so for example, how long is it taking to process 50% of your applications. If there is a review coming up and someone wants to make that number look better...

The same thing happened when we crossed the border (after sponsorship approval) - when the border official looked it up in the system, he wrote down a UCI one digit different. I think that the sponsor gets one number, and the applicant gets a different UCI - I can use either in ECAS. The one I...

I would imagine they might give you a lot more than a second glance if you are eight months pregnant, uninsured, and trying to cross back into Canada where your husband is... I thought the border was friendly both ways too (I was a Canadian waiting on my green card in the US). I got stopped...

We're all hanging out in Canada now, woo! Entry for me and the kids, hubby's visiting (but they issued him a 12mo visitor record). I know this option isn't convenient for many of you, but arriving on the ferry rocked. There are 8 CBSA officers or so sent to handle the passengers landing, and...

I think even having a copy of your PR application fees receipt helps - it's just documentation that you really have applied. I don't truly know how much difference it makes, but with kids involved, I'm trying to make our border crossing as painless as possible. For the citizenship cert, we...

G'luck. Sometimes meek is no longer the answer.

SA just arrived. So if someone could please update me in the spreadsheet: AOR July 17, SA July 23. Thank you!

Yay, just got SA!

And I think #3 is substantially more risky. It's likely in violation of the conditional PR rules, and the OP would be relying on not getting investigated (which might well be the case, but if it does happen, the potential consequences are fairly big).

Interesting. I wonder what the "conditions" are...

We will be doing this. We head back to Canada (end of the week - kids and I are moving, hubs is visiting. I have two kids still awaiting their citizenship certificates as well. I've read having the application submitted can make it easier to cross the border, so we submitted it without police...

There are two separate issues. One is how long can you visit in terms of immigration. The other is residency for tax purposes, which is where the up to 6 months in a calendar year thing comes from - longer than that and Canada will want you for taxes (which isn't much of an issue if you aren't...

I can start you off until more experienced folks arrive. In your shoes, I'd look at applying outland as soon as you can, based on common-law relationship. 2.5 years is plenty, assuming you have things like shared leases and bank accounts and utility bills for documentation. You could apply...

I don't know how active CIC will be, and what privacy laws permit, but there are other flags they could use. Does the spouse register for a DL, SIN, pay taxes - lots of ways to look in government data to see if two people appear to be generating the usual activity of cohabiting. I have no idea...

That is information for the Manitoba Provincial Nominee path to immigration, which is very different than family class sponsorship. Different types of immigration have different form requirements, and family class is still paper based :).

Cool, and thanks - lots to learn!

It might work for cohabitation (not sure), but it might cause problems in other ways. I know that as a sponsor, I had to show intent to return to reside in Canada. I'd still be thinking about exploring options on the work front, rather than exploring untested options on the immigration front...

Woo! (And what the heck is up with them deciding to use snail mail for some people... Ugh.)

This. Bchung, because this is new, no one really knows how interpretation and enforcement is going to work. Rob_TO quoted the relevant parts, and to me, that sounds very much like the two of you need to have a shared home, and *travel* for work is okay (which is very different than her having...

This is absolutely true. However, the part no one is sure about is how the work is being shuffled internally. CIC workers may be covering some duties normally handled by PAFSO members, for example. There are at least some hints that things have slowed down even in the in-Canada processing...