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Your mother can't just 'apply for PR based on H&C'. She had a stream somehow - eg parental sponsorship, spousal sponsorship, refugee claim. Or maybe she was stripped of her PR for not meeting the residency obligation & she appealed and lost on H&C grounds. If you can explain more about her...

It's fairly rare. CIC do their own checks with RCMP. You'll be asked for fingerprints if they can't clear you based on info given (ie if a Canadian criminal has the same name)

"PR" doesn't expire. You mean people with expired cards. A limited number of people have managed to cross the land border without their violation being reported. Far more are detected, which is especially easy with an expired card, as it normally need to questioning about where they've been, how...

Your tax issues and your failure to meet your PR obligations are separate. Birth-related medical issues cover at most 9 months by definition, and knee surgery doesn't seem an obvious reason for H&C exemptions. Nobody can say for sure, but I strongly suspect if you either enter Canada now, or...

Nobody can assure you of anything. As an American, you have a strong liklihood of being permitted to enter as a visitor. However, it has been known for Americans wishing to enter as a visitor with a Canadian partner to be refused entry, and excluded from Canada (not allowed to come back for a...

Send all the forms that are relevant for where you're applying. If something is not relevant, write "NONE", "Not applicable", "N/A" etc. If you say 'not anymore', then you will almost certainly have to include your military history, as that implies there used to be one.

They requested a document. You sent it. They signed for it. .... You panicked. It's not like the office gets a piece of mail once every six months, and leave it languishing in the corner while they figure out what it is. They do this every day (and a great many times each day). The documents...

That's normal. They tend not to update until the next thing's needed, or whole thing is done. ECAS will go "Decision Made", and then he will likely get an email (and message in myCIC asking for photocopy of passport bio page, photos, and a filled in annexe with height and eye colour. There's an...

Oh, I don't know what paperwork's needed at what stage in the new system. The fact you sent it with in the first place implied that it was needed then, like it used to be. They used to be perfectly willing to return packs if there was anything missing. In that case yeah, probably just going to...

As I said. IRCC do their own RCMP checks, so you only need to do something for a Canadian check if it's explicitly asked for because they couldn't clear you themselves. Honestly, the UK one is unclear. You haven't submitted a valid check according to their rules. They might return your...

Your UK police certificate was issued before you left the UK, and you have been back since. You should need a new police certificate (as you could have committed crimes since it was issued). IRCC only permit certificates older than six months if they were issued since you were last in the...

You're an American citizen? Your child is an American citizen. Your wife is a Mexican citizen. Presumably your child is also a Mexican citizen. If you don't have skills or attributes that Canada wants, then moving there in your situation is practically impossible. Most of the streams are either...

Does not require any proof of funds. If your partner is from a country that doesn't need a visa to travel to Canada (eg UK) then he doesn't need a visa. If he is from a country that does need a visa (eg Pakistan) he does. In either event, they've probably done it right from the passport...

If you've already been approved as a sponsor then no, the interview isn't to deny you as a sponsor. If you applied inland, you will have to go through a landing interview - it's the last stage in the process. If you applied outland, then interviews are very unusual for western applicants, and...

There is a non-zero chance of him being refused entry, for not having visitor intentions. He's planning on arriving at the Canadian border (a country he doesn't have the legal right to live in) with a Canadian partner, no job in America, and the intention of staying long-term. The money is both...

The stated times are to approve 80% of all cases, not the average time. The stated times are currently the target of getting every visa office down to 12 months. To get an idea of the variance, select that you applied before Dec 2016 from the drop-down. No office is accurate on the new ones...

A lawyer can't change the basic requirements. There are three ways of moving a romantic partner to Canada. 1) Get married. 2) Live together for 12 months continuously. 3) If neither of the above is possible for legal or immigration reasons - such as being already married in a country/society...

Also (as practical advice beyond 'stop what you're trying), you can change to visitor status online, so that will give you enough time to establish common law status. You then have a choice of filing an outland application (which will probably be done quicker), or if you have to resume working...

If you're living together to establish common law, you don't qualify for conjugal. You can get married, or go CL. Any conjugal application made within Canada is a waste of time and money, and guaranteed to fail.

Nobody can tell you. The forms, and process, was changed in December, and every processing office was set a 12 month target at that point. Vanishingly few applicants will have gone through the entire process since then. We might start getting an idea about new processing times in the next couple...