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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Thanks, this is good to know. I suppose that there's a remote chance that you have a matching name + birth date to someone with a record in the US and they need the US authorities to confirm that you're a different person. Mostly likely though, the delay is not US related in your case.
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Yep, same here. Earlier in the thread some of us were speculating that if we had connections or trips to the US, the shutdown there might have caused a bunch of delays....
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    Protected Person - Open work permit renewal

    My preference would be to use the WP-EXT letter's date, just because it's longer so gives you more time. It shouldn't matter if you're hired before the original work permit expires. As per this earlier post on this thread, even a WP-EXT can be considered useless for changing employers (meaning...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    So at this point, spouse was not yet a protected person. So my understanding is that, generally speaking, when a spouse is added to a PR application, the spouse comes under the same stream and with the same status as the primary applicant. For example, I met my common law partner in Canada and...
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    Waiting for AOR – Protected Person PR Application (Applied August 2024)

    Quite right. When I was waiting for my PR, I filed for my own GCMS notes to see what was taking so long. I did so as an "individual residing in Canada" and received them no problem. (Actually I ended up doing this multiple times, all without issue.) Now that I have PR, I figure that just means...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    Unfortunately, yes. If you look earlier on this thread, https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/refugee-status-cessation-and-prs-applying-for-citizenship.333455/page-76#post-11094961 I mention a case where such a dependent went through cessation and lost a...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Seems like they fixed it, could log in without any tomfoolery this time around. Alas, still all in progress.
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    My status after receiving WP-EXT for PGWP?

    My answer here https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/queries-regarding-citizenship-application-urgent.874235/#post-11103498 goes into detail. In short, you're now a worker, start date being when you received WP-EXT. But the OP would be eligible to continue...
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    Protected Person - Open work permit renewal

    I think it's primarily meant to be written proof of maintained status (formerly known as implied status) so you can do things like renew provincial healthcare and so on. That said I've heard of folks with understanding employers who were willing to take the risk to hire someone with a WP-EXT...
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    New Budget and PR processing

    If you check out footnote 9 here, https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/corporate-initiatives/levels/supplementary-immigration-levels-2026-2028.html#fnpr9 it's referenced that Quebec only maintains a separate queue for economic immigrants. The accord...
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    Renew refugee travel document

    congrats! hope it arrives timely
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    Renew refugee travel document

    Ouch. Reminds us of our visit to the local police station in Canada to report a lost passport - got the same sort of thing - "I'd never send my passport in the mail" despite this being the legal requirement at the time. Granted police officers probably would be expected to know most about e.g...
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    Study Permit and Work Permit - Protected Person

    Did the school say outright that you were out of compliance previous or something? If not - how do you know you needed a study permit back then? You probably had a work permit applied for in 2022 or early 2023 - before June 7 specifically, and thus you were eligible under this public policy to...
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    Study Permit and Work Permit - Protected Person

    This is exactly right. While for other situations, https://ircc.canada.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=934&top=25 explains that IEC work permits - which allow full time working - can be held with study permits at the same time. Furthermore...
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    Please I need help with work permit

    See https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/protected-person-open-work-permit-renewal.873488/page-3#post-11108153 - TLDR you probably have a medical exam from two years ago which - despite looking expired - you can submit for this requirement (thanks to a temporary...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Interesting, we're similar. I took citizenship test first and then later got FP request. Last I checked LPP was still in progress.
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    Protected Person - Open work permit renewal

    As the very first post of this thread states, you can do this. OP did this the first time when applying. This is for a PGWP which is different from the open work permit that you are applying for as a protected person. That said, from...
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    DUI Charge PGWP

    Good luck!
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    DUI Charge PGWP

    Not sure what you mean by 'cope' - both OPs got experienced lawyers involved to resolve their situation, and no one who went w/o this seems to have posted a success case. So if you want to resolve your situation successfully you'd be well advised to do the same. If you already have that and...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Thanks, this worked perfectly for me! Only I had to go further back and change the date to Nov 10 (I tried on Nov 14). Alas, same here.