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dotslash227 is wrong. If you are a U.S.resident depends on the definition of the process. "Your country of residence is the country in which you are residing, provided that you have been lawfully admitted to that country."...

how knows?But considering the big picture of geopolitics and economy, I won't count on it to decrease drastically in comparison to this year's number.

By the recent trend, the cut-off line is hoovering around 470 if not slightly higher. You are roughly 90 points off. Unless you could pull very hard "tricks" or you are extremely valuable, we are talking about impossibility in practice.[ I assume you were not talking about trade program under...

Do you know about the Australian system enough to comment? I am asking not in a confrontation way. I simply don't know and people always compare the Australian systems with the Canadian one.

What Canadas cares about is five years after serving your "sentence".

Stick with your passport. Put in whatever you have on your American passport. American passports use states as Place of birth.

You can apply for CCB during the landing year. Some tips If you wish, you could ask CRA to mail paper forms to you. What you would need are RC66 and RC66SCH[Myabe more], free of charge. I do not know if they accept the applications without SINs. I would suggest you do not apply until you get...

this is not a ray of hope, it is a ray of destruction from hell. I weep for all the souls who have to suffer.

I will assume you know why you need to make such an election for your American Roth IRA. If you don't know, research it. I contacted CRA via mail recently and got the confirmation as below: We received your letter dated xxx in regards to filing an election for a Roth IRA. You should follow the...

I am really surprised by this relatively high cut off score.

"most cost-efficient way" "If the major concern is cost," Please understand the context is constrained to the most cost-efficient way, not a method one is pleased with. The former is objective, the latter is subjective. With this understanding, one should not be shocked by my comment. Of...

transferwise: % fee for transfers up to 100,000 GBP = 0.45% for 100,000 GBP, fee is 448.28 GBP (0.45%). The proportional fee structure is the worst when the size of the fund is large, as demonstrated by this example. I am going to say, it ain't cheap enough.

I am writing this post as new settlers keep inquire about the most cost-efficient way to convert a large amount of money in USD to a large amount of money in CAD. if you do a quick searching online about the exchange rate between USD and CAD, what you would get is the daily, floating exchange...

Thank you for providing the name of the card. I added your card to the list.

Thanks. I had no idea. TIL

This is a founding based on our experience and some feedback from other members. [If you have some stories to share, please tell me so I can develop a list of credit cards as a reference for future settlers from the U.S.A.] We had a Nordstorm credit card issued by TD Bank, a U.S. national bank...

Additional information: I cannot guarantee your score after the global transfer. The number seems to fluctuate greatly depending on factors obscure to me. If you really want to save the parking fee, you could. There is a big U loop near the entrance of the Amex building. Bring another...

I am providing our experiences as reference for some future settlers, as I've discovered so many fellows have no ideas or do not know details of this convenient program, Global Transfer of Amex. By utilizing this program, one could have a fairly high credit score within one month of landing. For...

A few rounds, likely. Within A couple of rounds, god knows.

I won't need to wait, as I have already been slapped on the face by LCBO, a government-guaranteed semi-monopoly.