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    Return to Canada - PR

    No, apart from employment/financial aspect and that they may check carefully if they think you're not staying in Canada. Again: don't leave during the process given circumstances.
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    Entering Canada without COPR.

    I think I understand but am not certain. While customs and immigration are done at the border by CBSA, they are different concepts and different procedures (at land borders the distinctions not always clear). If you're asking about his immigration formalities, then yes, he has to leave and come...
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    Staying in Quebec temporarily after landing

    While I agree with the overall thrust of this discussion that you want to be clear in your narrative that you're just visiting for now, I don't think CBSA officers are typically spending a lot of time on this. You being from Quebec just adds a wee bit to the story here. On health care: best for...
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    Staying in Quebec temporarily after landing

    I don't think they typically search people in this position. But if you pull out your wallet and have a thick pile of Quebec ID etc., it could lead to complications. [I once had a CBSA officer - ages ago - actually search my vehicle when I was not living in Canada and say "aha!" when he found...
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    Return to Canada - PR

    If you return BEFORE you have been out of Canada for more than three years - before October - it should be okay. Note, this will not leave you much travel time while remaining in compliance, so sooner the better. And you'll need to remain in Canada while sponsoring. It's possible it will take a...
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    Do we have enough proof to back our common law?

    There's no fixed minimum to sponsor a common-law or spouse. Make sure to disclose you will be finishing your program and will be able to work full-time. Also point out that your common-law is working (full-time?) and they will take into account the family income.
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    PR to Passport

    When you get the oath and certificate, they usually say you need three business days to go in and apply for passport with the certificate (presumably just to ensure the system is updated - haven't heard of anyone trying before those three days, it's possible it wouldn't be an issue. Then it's...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    This happens all the time - the invite and e-certificate email don't seem to arrive consistently around the same time. No need to worry. Some even get it just after the ceremony. Mainly just wait.
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    Dependent Child Sponsorship -2024

    No, it will be signed by a CBSA agent when you arrive/'land' in Canada and complete the formalities. You should not sign it until the officer upon landing asks you to. Note that signing the COPR is an 'oath' - you attest all the information is correct. Once completed and signed, that is a...
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    Spousal sponsorship

    You'd have to physically move, get all ID etc., and document those changes to IRCC. How effective this is we don't really know.
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    My Sponsor lives in Québec but we intend to live outside Quebec

    The truth is we have very little concrete information on how they approach these things. But: because the difference in processing time is so VERY long, and the general 'mood' in Quebec on this issue, and the general fed moves to slow immigration - it is prudent to do as much as you can to have...
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    Options to continue Canadian PR and spouse sponsorship

    As general rule, if you want to keep it: move as soon as possible, period. You don't say what month in 2022 you became a PR. If it was after today's date, you could still get/remain compliant just by returning (test is whether you've been outside Canada > 1095 days since landing.) I largely...
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    Need Advice: Non-accompanying spouse/child in EE profile!

    Since this thread was started - in last couple of months? beginning of year? - i.e. more or less since the last posts here - there have been press reports (and presumably on the board here in the express entry forum) about IRCC 'cracking down' on this, and forcing applicants to add their spouses...
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    File stuck in Background check for military and police personnels

    Not family sponsorship, post in the appropriate forum.
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    Staying in Quebec temporarily after landing

    I think you'll be fine, don't worry about it - what you have mentioned above should be fine. I've no idea about the Quebec health insurance/once every seven year exemption. As far as I'm aware your health insurance shouldn't be valid if you're living abroad, but again, I don't know about that.
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    Staying in Quebec temporarily after landing

    Small clarification: you mean that you and the sponsor live abroad and are coming to settle in Canada, and when you arrive (together) you will just stay in Quebec for a few weeks? And after that continue on to province of destination?
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    Travelling with Minor PR Applicant – Can I Accompany Instead of Parent?

    See my answers above.
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    February 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    For the January applications that have rec'd oath invitation already, the most common mode is less than a month for the invitation after LPP. By nature that's a sample of ones that have gone more quickly. Invitations usually < a month before ceremony (fairly often ~2 weeks).
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    visitor record while applying for spousal sponsorship

    It will probably be okay. Best thing to do is to submit the spousal sponsorship ASAP. Don't worry about the visitor record application now - what's done is done. Get the spousal sponsorship in.
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    Error in marriage certificate

    Well, again - nationality doesn't have any direct bearing on validity of the marriage (and marriage certificate) - possibly apart from some unusual countries/cases. And you say the docs have you as Canadian in other places - which logically should not be a thing. So personally I'd be...