Recent content by phina1970

I will soon be signing up for utility in my own name, (Thank God my sin card was replaced). I will also be turning in u.s. drivers license, for a Quebec one. Was licensed about 10 years in the States before I even immigrated to Canada. I have maintained my drivers license so I have some ID...

Leona and Others' I thought is is only thelast 5 years of residency they looks at, not the 2st 5 yrs and every 5 yr period after. Ihave been a pr since 1997, I will be applying in a couple of years and I'm expecting them to look at only the last 5years. I hope those, like myself whohave been a...

Hi Leon, Not sure if you remember me. I just recieved my Immigration records i ordered thru CiC. it shows my name, id travel doc-# old passport #. Maiden name, DOB, addresses etc. Only my Candian Addresses new and old. A visitor's record-which shows only the details of my first visit when I...

I shop at many grocery stores that do not take interact, i withdraw once a money a few hundred dollars for expenses and my husband gives me money via a check every month, which I deposit into my bank acct. I am sure i can get copies of these checks post deposited. I have argued withmy brother...

Leon, your point is well taken. Life is not easy without a PR card. I don't have one and I don't have an insurance card or a drivers license. I am staying here for even longer than 2 years, since the 1st 2 yrs of this 5 yr period I was basically "undocumented" . With my ex having destroyed...

Hi Leon, thanks for all your suggestions. Actually, I have not been going to the Dr's as I should. I just recently was able to appy for carte maladie and it will take 3 months to recieve assurance and the card. They may not even approve my application too. Naturally I don;t want to be...

Leon, believe me I don't want to be under the radar, justthat in 2006-2008 when I came back here, I certainly didn't want my ex to locate me. I also didn't have anyth8ing no paper work to open a bank acct or work. These things took alot of time, had to even go back to Boston several trips to...

Yes Leon, Thats what I plan to do. I am under the radar here in Canada I guess , untill I start working I didn't have landing papers to come on at the time, thru the border (private vehicle). I didn't come on a passport but my birth certificate and license ID. Not sure how I can document my...

Leon, My husband is a Lead Mechanical Engineer, even at 54 he still has plenty of career time ahead of him. He was one of the first to get laid off at what we thought was the "peak" of the recession in Feb 09' ... fe months he did find another position, parlty sibsidized by the public sector...

HI Leon, thanks for your reply. I do not know if papers were revoked or if I signed something to relinquished them. Things were not calmly explained to me. All the officer saw is that I was merican and and I had said we live or lived there. He did not ask when, or for how long? or even if...

Just an update, I requested info from my immigration file to be sent to me today. I need to know exactly what went on at the border years ago. When this officer took my landing papers from me, I was still in compliance and had been little more than 1/2 a year in canada already, We were living...

Hi, They req'd a picture ID ont he application for the certified landing papers replacement, and they wanted it to to be a provincial ID. I wrote a letter explaining these are destroyed/lost and submitted my temporary drivers license from Boston (has photo) . I explained in the letter why I am...

I am also wondering if PR is/was revoked or cancelled years ago- wouldn't my sin # be as well? it was in dormant status, due to no tax filings for 5 years, and I have now retro-filed, informing them of the divorce to seperate my ex's tax file from mine. dormant status, doesn't effect anything...

Thank You so much for your replies. I am absolutely terrified to go to the border and present my papers to the border agents. However, I have called Immigration canada and they have confirmed many times that I am a Pernament resident, they still have me in the system, but I am not sure of that...

Also, I have crossed the border (US) vermont on new U.S. passport-with new married name, just to avoid the hassle. passports seem scanned now, can they somehow track? I have to visit my husband when he cannot come. I am like a single parent here, my twins are not PR-Yet. must straighten our...