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steben

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Nov 15, 2017
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Hello,

My husband is self-employed and has been in Canada for about 9 yrs now. He is self-employed and has submitted his application for citizenship twice already (first one was rejected). He had his 2nd citizenship test and interview last week and the immigration official sais there was not enough proof that he resides in Canada, despite having provided leases, bills, letters from members of the community, his NOA and entries/exits with csba and the USA as he travels for work.
Have any other self-employed members had issues with their application, despite providing many documents to proove they live here? His last application was rejected because of that and now the same issue seems to be happening again.
Any help would be appreciated :)
 
steben said:
Hello,

My husband is self-employed and has been in Canada for about 9 yrs now. He is self-employed and has submitted his application for citizenship twice already (first one was rejected). He had his 2nd citizenship test and interview last week and the immigration official sais there was not enough proof that he resides in Canada, despite having provided leases, bills, letters from members of the community, his NOA and entries/exits with csba and the USA as he travels for work.
Have any other self-employed members had issues with their application, despite providing many documents to proove they live here? His last application was rejected because of that and now the same issue seems to be happening again.
Any help would be appreciated :)
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So you guys went to see a judge and he told you that the reason for the denial was that he was self employed? or is your husband self-employed but also works remotely and that triggered the flag for them?
 
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My husband is a self-employed international development consultant and ran into some problems when he applied for citizenship. He had to go through the DQ to prove residency. Once the DQ evidence was submitted (it was a pain in the *ss to collect and probably took us three weeks to do) - his application processing wrapped up very quickly and he received an invitation to attend an oath ceremony less than two weeks after our DQ evidence went in. Apart from the kind of stuff you have mentioned, we also included the following in his DQ submission: all flight tickets itineraries (not just the CBSA exit/entry records), credit card statements (luckily he uses his card for almost all purchases and he had almost daily activity that showed he was using the card in Canada, evidence doctor / dentist / massage appointments, minutes from volunteer meetings he attends, and I'm sure there was more. We created a spreadsheet for IRCC where we indicated what evidence we had for each day he was claiming as RO. In the end, we had at least one piece of proof for over 80% of the days (whether that was a credit card transaction from that day, or a massage appointment from that day, or something else). Once we submitted that - he was approved extremely quickly.
 
steben said:
Hello,

My husband is self-employed and has been in Canada for about 9 yrs now. He is self-employed and has submitted his application for citizenship twice already (first one was rejected). He had his 2nd citizenship test and interview last week and the immigration official sais there was not enough proof that he resides in Canada, despite having provided leases, bills, letters from members of the community, his NOA and entries/exits with csba and the USA as he travels for work.
Have any other self-employed members had issues with their application, despite providing many documents to proove they live here? His last application was rejected because of that and now the same issue seems to be happening again.
Any help would be appreciated :)
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why was his first application denied? Did you go into judicial review?
During second time, did the immigration official deny his application, or asked for more proof?
Surely, there can be ample proof, other than employment, to support one's presence. Have you provided any such proof?
 
scylla said:
My husband is a self-employed international development consultant and ran into some problems when he applied for citizenship. He had to go through the DQ to prove residency. Once the DQ evidence was submitted (it was a pain in the *ss to collect and probably took us three weeks to do) - his application processing wrapped up very quickly and he received an invitation to attend an oath ceremony less than two weeks after our DQ evidence went in. Apart from the kind of stuff you have mentioned, we also included the following in his DQ submission: all flight tickets itineraries (not just the CBSA exit/entry records), credit card statements (luckily he uses his card for almost all purchases and he had almost daily activity that showed he was using the card in Canada, evidence doctor / dentist / massage appointments, minutes from volunteer meetings he attends, and I'm sure there was more. We created a spreadsheet for IRCC where we indicated what evidence we had for each day he was claiming as RO. In the end, we had at least one piece of proof for over 80% of the days (whether that was a credit card transaction from that day, or a massage appointment from that day, or something else). Once we submitted that - he was approved extremely quickly.
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Thanks for this infor! What is DQ evidence?
 
Scylla's advice is good. Why not have all those things sent to the the office asap? So that it can prove his residency.

BTW DQ=Dairy Queen. If someone messes up their application they send them to DQ, so that they can cool off :)
 
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