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    Questions to Marco Mendicino, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

    The minister talked mostly about the dominant role and the quality of immigration system in Canada. He also talked about some challenges and current issues. For example, he addressed the importance of lower skilled labor immigration and family class immigration. A lot is apparently being done to...
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    Questions to Marco Mendicino, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

    Are you trying to say that I am a privileged and somewhat special? If so, please relax.
  3. pandapanda

    Questions to Marco Mendicino, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

    It was an exclusive private event for alumni of my university.
  4. pandapanda

    Questions to Marco Mendicino, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

    The minister did speak at length about digitalization of immigration. He did say that it was of a high priority. This was not a direct answer, but it can be very clearly inferred that if not all, but most immigration related processing and submissions would be digital in the not so distant...
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    Questions to Marco Mendicino, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

    Thank you, all! I read all the posts and condensed the questions to the following: Unfortunately, my questions were not addressed during the zoom call just now.
  6. pandapanda

    Questions to Marco Mendicino, Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

    I'll be on a zoom call tomorrow with the Honourable Marco Mendicino at 7:00PM. What questions would you ask Mr. Mendicino if you had the opportunity?
  7. pandapanda

    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    They will only send you records of crossing the border to enter or exit the country. I suspect they may be reconciling some of these records with some other countries - the USA certainly shares the data, and they share at least some of the data with the USA. For example, if you exit America by...
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    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    If you have many exits and your days of physical presence are just enough as in my situation, you may be asked to explain your travels. In this case it is very important that you use the official exit and entry record to feed the official calculator. The officer will use that official record...
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    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/agency-agence/reports-rapports/pia-efvp/atip-aiprp/thr-rav-eng.html
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    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    App. Sent: 22 Nov, 2019 App. Delivered: 27 Nov, 2019 AOR: 22 Feb, 2020 Test: 9 Mar, 2020 DM: 10 Mar, 2020 Oath: Aug 7, 2020
  11. pandapanda

    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    I've just got an email invite for virtual Oath ceremony for Aug 7.
  12. pandapanda

    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    I don't know. My exit-entry record that I got from them was very accurate, and destination didn't matter.
  13. pandapanda

    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    Actually, they've started forming an accurate exit/entry database since 2013 so you can actually get all your travel records from as early as 2013. There's also data exchange with some countries, notably the USA.
  14. pandapanda

    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    They surely asked for my I-94 from the USA during interview after test.
  15. pandapanda

    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    I did nothing to speed it up; application processing just went its own course.
  16. pandapanda

    November - 2019 Citizenship Applications

    Family size: 1 Location: TO Physical Presence: 30 days over requirement App. Sent: 22 Nov, 2019 App. Delivered: 27 Nov, 2019 AOR: 22 Feb, 2020 Test: 9 Mar, 2020 DM: 10 Mar, 2020 I've contacted IRCC a couple of times via the web form regarding oath ceremony, but they don't have any updates. I...