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    January 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/notes-from-discover-canada-preparation-for-the-citizenship-test.734507/
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    Baby born Outside Canada Online Citizenship Application

    I do not know / it depends. This is why (assuming you are applying for passport for child born outside Canada) it's important to check with the Embassy/High Commission's consular section. They may have minimum requirements / it may depend on urgency.
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    Baby born Outside Canada Online Citizenship Application

    Free-form. Short explanation of why you cannot submit another ID. That's it.
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    Program Support Unit - PSU - Citizenship Proof

    Contact the consular section /consulate and inquire. Apply for a passport for the child, using application for citizenship certificate for the child as supporting evidence. Short form is that they should (usually will) issue a passport (temporary for an infant but infant passports short...
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Entirely a question of preference. That said: -the 'recent' paper certificates (all in last several years) have barcodes (discreet) and a series-code that indicates that photocopies/scans are fine, i.e. no longer need to bring the original to govt. (A family member did this with a scan/print...
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    Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

    The first question you have to ask/answer - read the instructions! - is whether you spent 183 days or more continuously in that country in the last four years. If you did not (i.e. you have not lived there since you departed in 2020), I believe there is no requirement to provide the PCC. Again...
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    September 2023 - Citizenship Applications

    It sounds like they 'touched' your file (opened it and possibly did minor housekeeping on it) after receiving your submission and entering info/making notes based on those - that is what seems to be behind the ghost updates. Unless your submission clarified/resolved whatever issue it was that...
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    Different name on passport and PR

    Yes, get that document translated/notarized (just as you would have done for docs for your PR application, and have old/new passports with you. That should be enough. (Can't guarantee as there are airlines in the way...) When you're back in Canada, apply for a new PR card with the new name...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Sending address will depend on which office is scheduling the oath.
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    Adding Common-Law Partner to PR Application After P2

    Since you have a lawyer - ask them.
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    Mistake in COPR

    If it's a small error - really a typo - and just in the place of birth, personally I think that's not worth getting corrected. YMMV.
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    PR card renewal obligations

    It is not contrived. An example in a different thread - in the last few days - of someone submitting (an /urgent/ request!) with a 250 page pdf. The question, I believe, is not what is a better explanation (debatable but I take your point) - it's what conclusions the examiner might make. Which...
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    Different name on passport and PR

    Generally, no: they're going to want to see some document that confirms a change of name, i.e. something that links/confirms that Person A is now known as Person B. It could possibly bear a different name in other jurisdictions but best is to find out, based on the legal framework that lets you...
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    Adding Common-Law Partner to PR Application After P2

    Did you submit these documents? (This is actually close to common sense, you'll need to revise the docs you originally submitted and add docs from your partner 'as if' you were submitting a new, completely revised app with your partner. 1. Yes. Indeed, I think you must do so. 2. No. If you do...
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    PR card renewal obligations

    To state the obvious: I did not claim it always works. It is one method of many they may use to check/double-check cases which are otherwise fine, or borderline. I could speculate, but the usage may be more useful in one direction (finding contradictory information) than another (confirming...
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    PR card renewal obligations

    Re: kids. My point was that the docs suggested to submit (eg Noa, lease, job records) mostly wouldn't apply. They would have others such as school records if of age and doctors visits etc, but also may lack things like drivers licenses and other photo ID and bank accounts.
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    February 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    You can apply two-three days after the oath (it's possible you could earlier but that's the standard warning), and check the passport office near you for the urgent processing options available. There are 2-3 days and next day options.
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    Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

    Yes - if I missed that, mea culpa.
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    PR card renewal obligations

    No. They do NOT ask you to provide accounting for every single day of physical presence. They just ask for two pieces of evidence that you were in Canada - at all. Again, not needed to cover every single day (and of course a lease on its own does not 'prove' one was in Canada all that time...
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    Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

    If you look at the form here (which is, I believe, identical to what is online or in the online instructions): https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/adult-minor/how/adult-forms-documents.html And read, you answer 'yes' to outside Canada more...