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    PR card renewal delay, need advise, thank you

    If your current PR card will be valid for your planned return, and your trip abroad is not long, should not be any problem. My understanding is that when they issue new cards, the old one is 'cancelled' in the system only after 30 or 60 days. If you can have someone monitor and receive your...
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    Missed PR Card Interview Due to Medical and Family Hardship – Seeking Advice on Reopening Application, Residency Obligation, and Urgent Processing

    To be upfront, this is the biggest problem: while you can try, I'm not aware of any mechanism that can possibly guarantee you'll get a card by then, even with urgent processing. Given your history, it seems even more likely that it'll take longer. I doubt anyone can say. Keep in mind that...
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    Canadian Citizen living and working abroad - needing a spouse visa for my wife

    Note, there is a sub-forum here for family sponsorship, the vast majority of which are spousal: https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/forums/family-class-sponsorship.5/
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    Request for Government service details

    I found the form with a wee bit more searching (the google-fu is strong when used with coffee): https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/imm0149.html For future reference, it is called "Details of Government Employment - IMM0149"...
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    Request for Government service details

    [edit update below - with the correct form] I think if you provide this type of letter, it may take ages to get a response and even then who knows what it'll be (they may ask for resume or c.v.). I'd suggest responding with actual content as to what you did. You can still include the text you...
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    Digital Photo File + Photographer Information - Online Citizenship Application

    I have not, but I did do this recently, and there are lines in the forms where it asks for the photographer's details including address - don't purposely provide fake info. Just pay the $20 or so and get it done right - sure, you might have it accepted otherwise, but you might also get it...
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    Residency obligation

    As far as I'm aware, it typically has a validity period of six months, sometimes a year. It may sometimes be shorter (I don't know), but not just a couple of days.
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    Canadian Citizen living and working abroad - needing a spouse visa for my wife

    https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/family-sponsorship/spouse-partner-children.html Start the application to spnsor your spouse now (this is called an outland application, while applicant outside Canada). You will need to provide some info about...
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    Seeking Advice for Spousal Sponsorship with Less Than 2 Years in a Relationship

    Approximately 90% of what you've written above is a fantasy novel in your head about their religion and lives. My point is precisely that "we do not know enough about this couple", and if there is any reasonable assumption, when all they've said - in the entirety - is 'we are Catholic,' it is...
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    Seeking Advice for Spousal Sponsorship with Less Than 2 Years in a Relationship

    You misunderstood - my point is that it's a corner case for it to be such an important factor for it to be a red flag; not just being practicing catholics who may wish/prefer to have a church wedding or consider it standard, but for the relationship history etc to be such that it's important...
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    Seeking Advice for Spousal Sponsorship with Less Than 2 Years in a Relationship

    I'm going to say that in my knowledge of many, many Catholics - it being a requirement in this way and something that might raise a red flag is very much a corner case. And to represent it as something that you would have to explain as a default is a massive exaggeration. IMO. Unless, sure, you...
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    Seeking Advice for Spousal Sponsorship with Less Than 2 Years in a Relationship

    Sorry, the above response is silly. Unless you're in a place where a church wedding is an absolute cultural requirement, I daresay a civil wedding is fine in most countries where catholics reside. It's not an arranged marriage. If IRCC asks why not a church wedding - you're not very religious...
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    No need.
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    PR card renewal acknowledgement using Permanent Resident Portal

    Well, hard to say, you might get caught up in the "not enough winter" processing delay clause to ensure you get your share of snow like everyone else.
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    PR card renewal acknowledgement using Permanent Resident Portal

    I don't have any direct insight into the process for doing the sorting into routine/fast vs not routine/slow (and I won't even venture to say that there are only two 'buckets' of treatment). That said: cross your fingers, I don't think the PRTD experience definitively means it will take that...
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    PR card renewal acknowledgement using Permanent Resident Portal

    A lot of reports here that most 'standard' apps are getting the card in the mail before the tracker even shows anything. Also generally MUCH faster than people were getting AORs before they changed the system. You may think that 'stupid', but I think it's a trade-off most will take.
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    Residency obligation

    We do not have perfect knowledge about reasons; there are some things we can infer - imperfectly. Large non-compliance without compelling H&C reasons - much higher chance of being reported. But your statements above that they're not issued at all or only for criminality etc are just wrong.
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    PR Card Renewal; Residency days short

    Opinions are opinions, and I don't disagree with you that it is a low bar to meet, and the enforcement seems to be weak, and the test for H&C is - arguably at least - inconsistent / possibly overly generous. That said: your distaste for / opinion of is NOT the relevant point when someone is...
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    PR Card Renewal application referred to Program Support

    Interesting. I'll have to check this thread to see about when you did this complaint. But there are two things in your story that are serious surprises to me: first, that they actually HAVE this 'flag removal team'. (It implies to me they've noticed the drag on resources checking old flags and...
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    May 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/documents/pdf/english/kits/forms/cit0002/01-03-2025/cit0002e.pdf This says specifically in the section 10(b) about the police certificate that: You said "I’m planning to submit my citizenship application this month. I landed in Canada as a PR in April...