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    December 2023 - Citizenship Applications

    CBSA can provide entry-exit information which is VERY helpful for physical presence, and will also provide the full IRCC gcms notes for citizenship apps. While the underlying data (the system notes) are the same, CBSA and IRCC do not always 'redact' (exempt from disclosure to you) the info...
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    Help with IRCC webform with PR family class sponsorship

    Is this selecting as principal applicant? What if you try selecting as sponsor? This is what I mean by the POV that they assume may be the issue...if they assume that 'dependants' means minor children (even though they can be adults legally), they may simply have not put that option for...
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    Help with IRCC webform with PR family class sponsorship

    Does it not say dependant anywhere? I'm not familiar with exactly what webform says, but you should consider that generally IRCC will look at it from point of view of what it considers default - sponsor or applicant, but a 'dependent child' it may only be considered from POV that the...
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    Can someone share successful stories where PR applicant was having cancer but eventually was approved PR

    Is this a spousal sponsorship?
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    Security Screening duration update

    For IRCC 'partner agency' I think generally refers to CSIS, possibly RCMP for criminality, CBSA conceivably for some issues, but this is mostly about domestic Canadian services. They do not directly 'farm out' to foreign agencies. Each of those may in turn have info-sharing and ways to get info...
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    First landing in Canada - question about list of 'accompanying goods'

    A warning that instructions from the shipping company people abroad about who does what in Canada can be a bit vague and/or wrong. They all have partner companies in Canada or local affiliates that actually do the paperwork. Not that it's that difficult, but your contacts/handlers in Canada are...
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    Adding spouse after getting P1/P2 request

    I would NOT rely on the email response alone, as appears above to be the case (I'm assuming). Write a webmail ASAP. Prepare and submit - via webmail - updated forms (update/add all relevant forms as would have been required if you'd been married when you submitted). Call IRCC to confirm. It is...
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    Help with IRCC webform with PR family class sponsorship

    If you're sponsoring your spouse, it's the first one of those two.
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    Marriage Certificate Name Format (India) – Impact on Canadian PR Application?

    Again, depends where you were divorced and which province. Check their relevant websites.
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    Dependent Child's PR sponsorship rejected due to missing DECLARATION FROM NON-ACCOMPANYING PARENT/GUARDIAN (IMM 5604)

    Don't know,you're just going to have to decide.
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    Dependent Child's PR sponsorship rejected due to missing DECLARATION FROM NON-ACCOMPANYING PARENT/GUARDIAN (IMM 5604)

    Okay - this seems more like what is called just a return of an application (at least for eg family sponsorship) as being incomplete. A modest pain and in my opinion incorrect, but this doesn't sound like an actual rejection.
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    Dependent Child's PR sponsorship rejected due to missing DECLARATION FROM NON-ACCOMPANYING PARENT/GUARDIAN (IMM 5604)

    Personally - as I wrote above - I would do both. Now note, since it was 'rejected' (despite my questions), I would absolutely get the form notarized. Me, I'd also go to my MP and ask/complain - I don't think they should have rejected this, that they should have given you a chance to add the...
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    Dependent Child's PR sponsorship rejected due to missing DECLARATION FROM NON-ACCOMPANYING PARENT/GUARDIAN (IMM 5604)

    Odd. For other types of apps leaving something out is called not accepted or returned, not rejected - and rejection should give a PFL. Did they say whether you have to pay again?
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I have no statistical base of comparison at hand nor time to research, wo won't object to your conjecture - if you wish to believe it, by all means. But it in no way contradicts what I wrote, that complaints about how many requests to MPs and how effective they are have been ongoing for...
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    Marriage Certificate Name Format (India) – Impact on Canadian PR Application?

    There are basically no limitations based on citizenship / residency to marrying in Canada - at least that I'm aware of. But simply check what the provincial requirements there are where you wish to marry. At least in Ontario the 'are there impediments to marriage' bit is done by an oath (a...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I have been using background and prohibition as two parts of the security/criminality/other background checks. I admit my usage confuses things a bit. I have never believed that any of the explanations about where BG and Prohibitions are split have made any sense, but IRCC seems to think...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    You're right, it is not a queue. I used 'queue' here to refer to when a file is waiting in one particular sub-area, not an overall queue. My mistake in that I confused the issue by phrasing that way. (or if one prefers there can be lots of separate queues - like waiting on one-person's desktop...
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    Dependent Child's PR sponsorship rejected due to missing DECLARATION FROM NON-ACCOMPANYING PARENT/GUARDIAN (IMM 5604)

    Quick q as I didn't notice a detail here - when you say it was 'rejected', was it sent back to you as incomplete? Or was it accepted for processing (AOR) and then you got a refusal? Important to know - most of the time they've been accepting these and then (in some cases) asking for the...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    These 'expected processing timelines' (eg the current 13 months for citizenship) are in large degree constructed this way to limit use of the MP channel to cases that are at least not in the main 80%, the rest are deemed routine. Complaints about how effective have been going on for decades...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    You should write to the ATIP/privacy ombudsman about gcms delays that go beyond 60 days.