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Our story is very simple. He'd never been married, I'd been married and divorced, and neither of us have children. Close in age (I'm 2.5 years older than him, so late 20's/early 30's when we started all of this). We met through an online dating site in 2010, though we were living perhaps 4 kms...

I applied inland (US citizen) back in 2012, and it was DUMB, DUMB, DUMB when I did it, and things are worse now. Took me a year to get PR, and I couldn't visit my family or take a vacation for all of that time, and timelines have only grown longer since my process was completed. As a US...

We did a lot of reading on this issue, as my husband (the Canadian) is military and could very well be posted OutCan again (we met while he was posted to the US). I worried that we'd jump through all of the hoops to get my PR, then we'd get posted back to the US or somewhere else outside of...

You can apply outland while you are both in Canada, no problem. He shouldn't be working (for a Canadian employer) if he's just a visitor here right now. That's a BIG no-no and could cause you serious problems down the line. If he's working for a British employer while he's here on a visitor...

There is no "extending" PR. You have PR now, and you will continue to be a PR as long as you live within Canada for at least 2 years out of any given five year period. Time spent living outside of Canada with a Canadian citizen spouse counts as time within Canada, as well. PR can be revoked...

I am NOT posting this to be negative, but just to try to help make sure you manage your expectations in a realistic way. While it's true that it is much, MUCH better for US applicants to submit an outland application (seriously, an inland app for a US citizen is basically insanity as things...

Just wanted to say that, while I know all of our experiences differ, we had absolutely zero trouble opening a joint bank account for me and my husband with Bank of Montréal while I was here (Québec) as a visitor. The husband had an existing account with them for perhaps a decade. When we got...

I, too, am American and accompanied my husband during "his" (really, "our") move. We were just in a car with a week's worth of clothes and personal belongings, but we had a manifest from the moving company listing all of our belongings. We hadn't started the PR app process at all yet (really...

In theory, an applicant can move about freely within in Canada after landing. In practice, the PR may face challenges relocating quickly to Québec after landing. I know I needed my CSQ for a few things - to get into free immigrant French classes, to exchange my US drivers license, and I think...

This. People from countries with similar cultures and standards of living will likely always face fewer obstacles/shorter timelines than those who stand to gain a lot more from immigration, and with reason. While I'm guessing there have probably been Australians and Americans who have married a...

To the OP, please ignore posts when it is obvious that the poster advises fraud. It is not he who will suffer the consequences (and if you have any doubts about someone's advice, sometimes it helps to click on their profile and look at their forum ratings; one with a rating of +2/-128 has...

(FYI, it's easier to read posts when they aren't in all caps.) Yes, you *can* send in your app without the police certificate, noting that you will forward the police certificate when you receive it. However, there's some chance of causing a delay in your process any time you leave out any of...

I was too nervous about being without my passport to do the name change during the process. If I had it to do over again, I would TOTALLY do the name change before landing. Now I have a passport in my married name, and a COPR and PR card in my maiden name. (It's an extra pain here, as Québec...

That's not true. You don't have to file a tax return if your income was below a certain level. If you had no income, you don't have to file that year. http://www.irs.gov/uac/Do-I-have-to-File-a-Tax-Return%3F The part about having to file US taxes even if you are in Canada (or anywhere else...

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. "After MICC approval"? You got two copies of the CSQ. That's all you will get from MIDI (used to be MICC, name changed). Neither the sponsor or the PR applicant will receive further communication.

If she can't get a work visa, then there's not really any way for her to work while she stays with you in Canada. She will only have visitor status, and it's a good idea to stop using words like "move." She will be "visiting" you in Canada, unless and until she has some status other than...

I can't really help with that, as my experience was apparently nothing like yours. We got a letter from CIC telling us to request the CSQ (certificat de sélection du Québec) from MICC. We completed the undertaking and sent it into MICC (which, again, is now known as MIDI). After around a...

They send you two copies. One for you, one *in case* you need to send it to CIC. They are also supposed to send a copy to CIC. So you don't have to do anything. Some people, knowing how inefficient CIC is, go ahead and send CIC their copy. I didn't, and CIC received their copy from MIDI...

While some have submitted applications without the medical (yours truly, though it wasn't a decision I made, I was just dumb), yes, the medical should be done and proof that you did it should be included with the application packet. The medical exam expires one year from the date it was...

Trav0370, I was the same way. I left my whole life, a good life, full of friends and laughter and family, where I was self-sufficient, to come to a place where I knew no one but my husband (who was to be gone for fully half of our first year here "together"), couldn't work, couldn't speak or...