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    Not Declared Common-Law Despite 12+ Months Living Together – Does Relationship Nature Matter for IRCC?

    I agree with @Buletruck on the substance - you are in for a difficult time and need legal counsel. It's also quite likely you will never be able to sponsor your spouse - and so your spouse should do everything possible to qualify for immigration on their own. (All this could have been avoided if...
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    What are the chances of our conjugal partner PR application being approved?

    You don't have to 'believe in the concept' to get married (whatever that even means). It's a legal relationship - you enter into a type of contract. In this context, you are getting married to demonstrate you're in a relationship for immigration purposes - that's all. Or do you also not...
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    Understanding Common Law Sponsorship

    I did too first time through, written rather breathlessly.
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    Spousal sponsorship

    It rather depends on your family/personal context. For an arranged marriage - no, wouldn't work. For many/most North/South American/European contexts - almost the standard nowadays, nothing much to worry about. Other places - depends, you and your spouse should have a better idea than others...
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    Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

    No such anomaly is possible. Any day you were in Canada for any length of time is a day in Canada. If you were in transit somewhere else (before you arrived at your destination), you weren't in Canada. Again - time in Canada is a day in Canada.
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    Understanding Common Law Sponsorship

    Answer is in the original post, I believe: Since distinction was drawn between 'being together' and 'living together', seems pretty clear.
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    Need Advice: Non-accompanying spouse/child in EE profile!

    Yes. I do not understand this sentence. At present there is an explicit target to reduce TFW to a certain percentage of population, so yes, less welcoming. I think some of solution could/would be to 'convert' more to PRs but that does not seem to be explicit part of the plan.
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    Understanding Common Law Sponsorship

    Since you're engaged and living together, don't bother with this common law stuff. Just get married and then you apply to sponsor him when you arrive in Canada. Either way: you cannot sponsor him until you are residing in Canada. He may or may not be able to get a TRV before you leave for...
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    Return to Canada - PR

    No, apart from employment/financial aspect and that they may check carefully if they think you're not staying in Canada. Again: don't leave during the process given circumstances.
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    Entering Canada without COPR.

    I think I understand but am not certain. While customs and immigration are done at the border by CBSA, they are different concepts and different procedures (at land borders the distinctions not always clear). If you're asking about his immigration formalities, then yes, he has to leave and come...
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    Staying in Quebec temporarily after landing

    While I agree with the overall thrust of this discussion that you want to be clear in your narrative that you're just visiting for now, I don't think CBSA officers are typically spending a lot of time on this. You being from Quebec just adds a wee bit to the story here. On health care: best for...
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    Staying in Quebec temporarily after landing

    I don't think they typically search people in this position. But if you pull out your wallet and have a thick pile of Quebec ID etc., it could lead to complications. [I once had a CBSA officer - ages ago - actually search my vehicle when I was not living in Canada and say "aha!" when he found...
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    Return to Canada - PR

    If you return BEFORE you have been out of Canada for more than three years - before October - it should be okay. Note, this will not leave you much travel time while remaining in compliance, so sooner the better. And you'll need to remain in Canada while sponsoring. It's possible it will take a...
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    Do we have enough proof to back our common law?

    There's no fixed minimum to sponsor a common-law or spouse. Make sure to disclose you will be finishing your program and will be able to work full-time. Also point out that your common-law is working (full-time?) and they will take into account the family income.
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    PR to Passport

    When you get the oath and certificate, they usually say you need three business days to go in and apply for passport with the certificate (presumably just to ensure the system is updated - haven't heard of anyone trying before those three days, it's possible it wouldn't be an issue. Then it's...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    This happens all the time - the invite and e-certificate email don't seem to arrive consistently around the same time. No need to worry. Some even get it just after the ceremony. Mainly just wait.
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    Dependent Child Sponsorship -2024

    No, it will be signed by a CBSA agent when you arrive/'land' in Canada and complete the formalities. You should not sign it until the officer upon landing asks you to. Note that signing the COPR is an 'oath' - you attest all the information is correct. Once completed and signed, that is a...
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    Spousal sponsorship

    You'd have to physically move, get all ID etc., and document those changes to IRCC. How effective this is we don't really know.
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    My Sponsor lives in Québec but we intend to live outside Quebec

    The truth is we have very little concrete information on how they approach these things. But: because the difference in processing time is so VERY long, and the general 'mood' in Quebec on this issue, and the general fed moves to slow immigration - it is prudent to do as much as you can to have...
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    Options to continue Canadian PR and spouse sponsorship

    As general rule, if you want to keep it: move as soon as possible, period. You don't say what month in 2022 you became a PR. If it was after today's date, you could still get/remain compliant just by returning (test is whether you've been outside Canada > 1095 days since landing.) I largely...