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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...
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    Who draft/sign letter of explanation

    Any of those variants should work
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    If you get the oath ceremony in person, you may not have a choice. If you do: my personal preference is the paper. It looks nicer - and as best I can tell (eg passport office requirements), the new/recent paper ones have barcodes etc that mean they are equivalent of electronic. I cannot prove...
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    It is not allowed to send passport by courier, any other options?

    Your spouse should check local resources as to what solutions are available. My best guess is that there is some local service or arrangement, OR possibly travel to somewhere nearby, courier/post it from there, and return. It may be more useful in this case if you specify which country.
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    Economic immigration

    This website https://canada.diplo.de/ca-en/consular-services/visa/2169884-2169884?openAccordionId=item-2169908-3-panel Says regarding an airport transit visa: " you do not have a valid Canadian PR card or temporary resident visa, or if you stayed in Canada without a visa AND you do hold a...
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    Economic immigration

    Check with the airline. They are the ones who will not let you board if you don't have the right docs.
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    December 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    I'm only guessing here: likely 'paper file location' was originally used to mean something akin to primary office or first-office holding (after reception), and now that they've changed to electronic applications, they've not changed the names of some of the database names. In other words...