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    February 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    If you look at the passport application form, it says provide original or copy of citizenship certificate (if certificate issued after February 1, 2012), with note (right below it) that says "Note: Copies of Canadian citizenship certificates are accepted if the certificate number begins with a K...
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    Spousal Sponsorship

    Thanks for your patience (at reading that). I underline for almost everyone though: declaring your spouse is EXTREMELY important, and failure to do so results in SEVERE consequences. Not understanding the common law requirements is probably the most common - in simple terms, live together for...
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    February 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    You're making assumptions about what they're doing that don't seem confirmed to me. My guess is that you've asked for two different things, 'different date but virtual if circumstances.' Too complicated for them. Just ask for a different date, after your scheduled return, in person or virtual...
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    February 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Despite what people think, there is now effectively no difference between having a (current series) paper certificate and an e-certificate. The new ones have barcodes and you'll see in citizenship instructions that they'll accept photocopies/scans of current series paper certificates (because...
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    Spousal Sponsorship

    I'm not disagreeing. I'm making a slightly different point, that some leniency on the part of IRCC is not impossible, if the claim is made - variously [ we didn't realise / it's complicated / we did not make to wish false claim of marital status / etc.] Note, uncertainty as much on my part on...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Counterpoint: it can be a coincidence. It's like the birthday paradox, chances of two people in a group of only ~23 sharing a birthday (not year but day) is 50% - seems impossible but in fact just a coincidence of basic numbers and probability. With a fairly large number of posters here sharing...
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    Spousal Sponsorship

    I don't overall disagree with @Naturgrl - chances are you won't be able to sponsor your spouse because not declared. That said: you can speak to a lawyer. Occasionally an applicant or two has had success (reportedly) by laying out the facts, truthfully, esp where there was ambiguity or...
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    PR Card renewal- 25 days short for RO 730 days case

    Very important: why do you think she would have to leave? She is not required to have a current/valid PR card. She's a PR without one. The card is not the status. Just remain in Canada until in compliance, then apply. Yes, if there's some reason to apply before this, she can apply relying upon...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL SUBMITTED OCTOBER 2025

    This JSON inspect blah blah blah is completely unreliable. It is proven to give incorrect information. Here's (yet another) case of someone doing so and wasting everyone's time, and their own nerves...
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    Question on 3 year of tax filing

    This isn't precisely correct - the requirement is 'to have filed taxes if needed.' See here: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/adult-minor/who.html That said, the question of who needs to file is not (IMO) completely straightforward, and...
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    Question on 3 year of tax filing

    There's a button for 'required to file'; in theory she can check that as she would have had no tax payable - presumably that is. (The requirement is to file taxes, I believe, when you owe - but also in some other specific circumstances). In my view it would probably be better for her to just do...
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    PR Card renewal rejected

    It's not a 'glitch.' You were using an unsupported hack - the console/inspect thing - which is not intended to be used. It provides incorrect information because it is not supposed to be used. Bluntly, the hack is nonsense. Just because you CAN use an unsupported hack does not mean it's useful...
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    December 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    "It depends." They might respond soon with new date if your trip abroad is relatively short; for those with longer or uncertain departures, they may tell you to advise them after you return (and then it will take longer). No, I can't say precisely how soon, nor what they consider 'short'...
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    PR Card renewal- 25 days short for RO 730 days case

    ^^ Strongly agree with this. Far more likely to work this way. @Dreamer889 : be sure to check carefully your arithmetic, as dates from early part of the period may start to 'drop off.' Simplest form: from date of application, count all days outside Canada from the date five years before (also...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    This is a very good point. Not that guarantors/references have to be in Canada or Canadian (suggestion: read the instructions carefully!), but anyone in this situation would be well advised to at least plan in advance how to get the required [everything] for the passport application. It'd be a...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    It's actually not necessary to get the passport while in Canada (there is no passport control when departing Canada) - although it might be a lot easier than abroad, depending on circumstances. The important thing to keep in mind is that a Canadian citizen will need a Canadian passport to board...
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    Citizenship vs Renew PR Card - Questions on citizenship form

    1. Some people think you must declare visitor statuses; I don't; decide. 2.3. Yes. 4. I would include both of these and if you don't have specifics, write a short letter of explanation that these two periods were while you were a minor and you think it was status of [dependent of a work visa...
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    Sponsoring spouse and dependent children

    These cases are rather infrequent but ultimately - you are a PR in compliance, your spouse and one child renounced, as long as you meet other criteria for sponsorship and they to be sponsored, there's no particular issue. (I'm not sure what the LOE is for but presume it makes sense). How long...
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    Spousal sponsorship

    2 & 3: It remains an 'outland' application but once the applicant is in Canada, there's no longer many significant differences. 5. "Where it is processed" is wherever IRCC chooses to do it. Neither inland nor outland automatically change that, nor does arriving in Canada change how they process...
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    Help with application

    I'd do the LOE, yes, no need to be worried about it though.