Recent content by Majromax

Spreadsheet update (Majromax, visa office Montreal): Oath letter: April 27 Oath date: May 16

My timeline for the spreadsheet (new entry): Location: Montreal Application Type: Single Physical Presence Days: 1180 Application Sent: 1 November, 2017 Application Delivered: 7 November, 2017 AOR: 5 January, 2018 IP eCAS: 6 February, 2018 Test Invite Letter: 1 March, 2018 Test Date: 12 March...

It sucks that the original mail was lost, but given the full cost of permanent residency if I could have added $100 to the bill to have the CoPR tracked at the outset I would have been sorely tempted. But more broadly, I'm very glad that CIC got back to you. If you do mail the photos to them...

Honesty is invariably the best policy. CIC's concern is that you will not end up on welfare once you move to Canada. Since from other posts it seems you are already in Canada and employed, this should be no concern.

If CBSA cannot help, you may also try applying for a replacement of the document. Lost mail happens rarely, so I'm not sure if any users still here have had to go via this route. Keep in mind that the CoPR is only valid for a fixed amount of time. This is most commonly until the immigration...

More or less the same thing happened to me approximately this time last year. You in fact had better luck than I did, since I could never get the call centre to tell me whether or not I was approved after DM. I will shamelessly admit to panicking, but I did receive a response via e-mail around...

This happened for me at the end of the summer. Despite receiving DM in the third week of June, my COPR was not printed for a full month. Based on the issue/receipt dates, it was promptly mailed once printed. As far as I can tell, CIC sometimes batch-prints COPRs, and it may have something to...

Not necessarily. My application (US-sourced, but already living in Canada on temporary status) was processed completely without any document requests from CPC-Ottawa, but this was a bit before the "IP for everyone / proof of residence" boilerplate. The circumstances under which the visa office...

See Operational Bulletin 205-A. For applicants who are US citizens, CIC does not normally request the physical passport because it does not need to affix a single-entry visa for landing purposes. An applicant should be able to land with just the passport card.

You can explicitly request and receive an X-Ray deferral as a pregnant applicant. See section 4.6.1 of the Panel Physicians' handbook for the process. Essentially, you go through everything but the X-Ray, and then complete the X-Ray after delivery. This is an understood and explicitly...

The official passport request is for the original document, since for non-visa-exempt applicants they need to affix a single-entry visa for landing purposes. Requesting a new photocopy of the passport is still good news in that it means someone has looked at the application, but it is not...

No card anymore, just a printout with the number. An employer may or may not ask for proof of status in Canada. Your new SIN will begin with a number other than '9', which marks it as a permanent number available only to citizens and PRs. If the employer does request proof of status, the...

There's no problem with mailing to a foreign address. I received my background check in Canada last year with no issue.

Since this is as good a thread as any for an update, I received my PR card in the mail today. Landing: July 27th, 2015 Card issued: September 15th, 2015 (expiry 15 Sept 2020) Arrival: September 21, 2015 in Montreal

For immigration, other types of visas. CPC-Ottawa processes express entry and other types of applications. Our basic intuition that there's an office full of people somewhere really isn't correct. CIC has some 420 full-time-equivalent personnel for the entire family-class program, worldwide.