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    Issue with CBSA Travel Record – Impact on Citizenship Eligibility

    @armoured mostly covered your situation. The most important part of that is to be sure YOUR travel history, as reported in the physical presence calculation, is as complete and accurate as YOU can make it. Most applicants will not compare their own travel history with CBSA records. No need to...
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    Language Skills passed, Physical Presence and Prohibitions still in Progress - Feb 2025 AOR, no document or interview requests

    While this response is a bit late, the underlying physical presence and *buffer* issues are a salient subject being recently discussed in multiple threads, including a discussion today in a new thread titled "Stuck in Physical Presence." I will try to coordinate responses (I am very slow these...
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    Checklist Proof of Residency Requirement

    You are NOT in the same boat as the OP. Unlike the previous version (which was used by the OP), as of at least April 2023 the checklist for a PR card application (likewise for PR TD application) clearly requires all applicants to submit proof they meet the RO. So all applicants should check...
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    Supporting documents showing that you meet the residency obligation

    There are detailed instructions describing what supporting documents must be included with an application for a PR Travel Document (same supporting documents to be included for a PR card application). These are in the appendix, Appendix A: Residency Obligation, which is part of the general...
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    PR Renewal applications April 2025

    Not really. Processing times for PR card applications are going through a big change given the impact of automated decision-making and other aspects of automated processing including AI components. This is benefitting most PRs, resulting in most applications having processing times only a...
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    PR Renewal applications April 2025

    Way too soon to forecast much. These days most applications are processed very quickly and for many the card is on its way before the PR gets an update. Biggest difference these days is whether the application meets criteria for automated decision-making. The precise nature and extent of the...
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    Mistake on Physical Presence Calculator

    As long as the discrepancies between what you reported in the physical presence travel history and your actual travel history are within a range that is consistent with "a mistake" (or even a few minor mistakes), as @scylla commented, that could cause some delay but ultimately the application is...
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    Questions arising from PRTD application

    Ditto observations by @canuck78 . . . It appears that both you and her might not understand PR obligations. There is no reason to be surprised IRCC would request information and evidence documenting RO compliance from someone applying for a Travel Document dependent on their having PR status...
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    The Government of Canada introduces citizenship by descent legislation for Canadians

    The Issues With Bill C-3 (same as with Bill C-71, proposed more than a year ago) . . . Some belated but nonetheless just preliminary observations about what is at stake, what is happening, what will happen, the issues . . . What the Law Should Be Issues: Pros and Cons; should these...
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    The Government of Canada introduces citizenship by descent legislation for Canadians

    . . . new Bill same as the old Bill . . . Here is a link to the actual text of the proposed amendments to the Citizenship Act in Bill C-3: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-3/first-reading Again, nothing new here . . . At a glance obviously proposed Bill C-3 is substantially...
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    PR card 730 days obligation and entering to Canada

    On the contrary . . . Those who do even a modicum of homework know a good deal about reasons for allowing PRs to retain their status despite meeting the definition of inadmissible due to a breach of the RO. A lot of this information has been shared in this forum. I am nowhere near alone among...
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    Mandamus

    xxx This is not an appropriate venue for obtaining legal advice or legal opinions. Moreover, this part of the forum is specifically about citizenship (mostly for those Canadians who only have Canadian PR status and are applying to become a Canadian citizen). There are more relevant parts of...
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    ONLINE PR RENEWAL CARD ASKING FOR COMMON-LAW STAT TO UPLOAD?

    Note: probably better (more likely to get relevant responses) to pose queries related to applications by PRs (in contrast to applications by FNs) in the part of the forum about settlement in Canada and PR Obligations in particular. Main thing: as long as the total number of days you have been...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    This is Zhou v. Canada, 2025 CanLII 43159, https://canlii.ca/t/kc30h which is not itself a cessation case, but as @scylla couched it, it is "related" to cessation in that it is about an inadmissible Foreign National (FN) fighting physical deportation, whose inadmissibility derives from a...
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    PFL - MISREPRESENTATION - NOT MENTIONING COMMON LAW

    A Procedural Fairness Letter is serious. Serious enough to consider getting assistance from a lawyer unless you are very confident you can explain the situation sufficiently to dispel suspicion of misrepresentation. I have been offline for more than a couple weeks and am an old dude still in...
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