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Self-employed or entrepreneur is an acceptable occupation. My spouse made infant clothing to sell online, she posted Entrepreneur as her occupation during the application. We ticked the box and put that in the comments.

Don't consider this a rejection, just a returned application due to missing documents. Rejection of the application is much much worse. Before you send it back in, sit on it for another day or two. Then review all the document checklists once again with a fresh pair of eyes to ensure you...

Will echo the others. So long as your spouse as a valid visa to reentry into Canada, you should not have an issue. Granted a visitor's visa is inherently a bit riskier than those with an OWP, or student visa, but you should be fine.

Certified copies are copies of valuable documents (birth certificates, etc) from which a notary public or lawyer certifies that it is a true copy. They'll mark it with a seal or stamp as a certified copy which has their ID. Copies of certified translations are a two document process. Copy the...

This is perhaps the most salient part. Visitor status for South Korean nationals is 6 months. You will have to continuously renew her status to which there could be a chance that it can be denied. Whereas an OWP will give her 2 years or until the end of her passport validity, whichever is...

I assume you plan to apply for her Open Work Permit when you submit the inland package? This will give her non-visitor status in Canada which depending on the province you land in, access to health care, driver's license, and a SIN.

This is the period of the long wait. They have confirmed receipt of your documents and now becomes where they will do the extensive background checks. Next step will be medical request. For us it took 8 months from submitting the police certificate to then.

No, we bought a single trip. There was very little questioning. I stated our intentions very clearly, ie: want to apply inland as to keep the family together and showed our paperwork. The agent spent much of our questioning period reviewing the paperwork with his supervisor. No issues.

Like I said, we have no experience with outland. The IRCC posts inland/outland application processing times. If there is an appreciable difference in processing times, then Outland may be quicker if that is your priority. Our priority was to keep us all together as we already had a toddler...

So our circumstances are exactly the same as yours. Don't have any experience with outland. But I would recommend an inland application if your priority is to stay together. This is what we did; our inland application took a total of 13 months. Delayed by 2 months due to a pregnancy where my...

The Japanese Consulate in Toronto let us apply for a PCC after showing them our AOR. No problems about needing to wait for the document from IRCC requesting a PCC. Actual PCC arrived 2 months later. We opened the envelope, scanned a copy, and sent in a certified copy. IRCC had no questions...

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=248&top=28 Yes you can leave. The main point is that you ensure you meet all requirements for re-entering Canada. ie: visas, ETA, good standing, etc. If you have an OWP and you leave for the purpose of family/visits, there will/should...

I am guessing that the entire family are PR's of Canada? You could always flagpole to renew his visitor status. But visa extension will be the best way to ensure that he stays in country with you.

It is just for the applicant. So in this case your wife. You need to include the entire family on the application but the Police Certificate is only for your wife.

Any 2017 applicants get their PR card yet? The tracking sheet is thin on examples for the final piece, the PR card. Just wondering where IRCC is with processing first time PR cards.

They ask basic questions on whether or not she has a criminal history, if she was deported from any country, and if she was refused entry into any country. She will also be asked about how many dependents she has outside of Canada. She will get the PR at the end of the interview. PR card 10...

We just landed today at Etobicoke, Ontario. Took half a day but it was mostly just waiting in line. Interview was all of 15 minutes. Only because the Immigration Official was quite friendly and talkative. Typical questions asking about criminality, deportation, and refusal of entry. She...

We submitted both the Koseki Tohon and the Kaisengen Kaiseki Tohon just to be on the safe side. Make sure you start asking for the police cert as quickly as you can. It took us over 2 months before it arrived at the consulate.

You're really close to the end. For us, we got the landing letter interview the next business day. Scheduled for next Thursday. Hopefully this time next week, the entire thing will be over and we'll need to wait again for the PR card.

OK, this was unexpected. Talk about speed! We only got our medicals passed about a week and a bit ago. Yesterday we get the Eligibility Passed letter. We were super stoked thinking that the end is near, maybe a couple of months of waiting left! Then today, we get the landing interview letter...