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    Sponsorship for a spouse who overstayed 3yrs

    While I'm sure it feels somehow like a dunk to treat it as a reward and deny that lollipop - does it really make sense? Who benefits from that? Now, assuming it's a bona fide application and the officer has determined it's likely to be approved, what's the counterfactual? The person sitting at...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL QUERY

    I'm not involved in that and not going to be.
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    PR CARD RENEWAL QUERY

    It's really not worth it to stress over it if you've submitted recently. They seem to be completing most in between 3-8 weeks (many basically in ~30 days). As for the JSON PR hack: not worth it in my opinion. At best gives not-wrong but not-actionable information. Far too often it gives...
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    Name change process in BC

    Changing name after citizenship will be fine. You can even begin the process before you get the citizenship, given it takes so long. The key then is: get the citizenship certificate, get the name change docs, get a Canadian passport in new name (on strenght of name change docs). That way you...
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    PR Renewal Residency Clarification

    It will not work and there are no legitimate ways to make this work with your own company. They will look through the ownership and control.
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    Citizenship 'consultants' - are there any official requirements like for immigration consultants?

    I guess I could have made that question easier if I'd written 'is this a regulated profession.'
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    Citizenship 'consultants' - are there any official requirements like for immigration consultants?

    I pretty much put the question in the title. Does anyone know the answer to this? Is there a requirement to be officially registered or join a college for those providing services only for citizenship applications? For that matter, any requirements for citizenship certificate applications vs...
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    Citizenship Backlog Surge 2026

    I think I mentioned that above - a) Applicants for citizenship by descent do not apply for citizenship grants, but citizenship certificates - and those have different estimates and timelines. So in theory they shouldn't be included there. It's a different form and everything. b) It is...
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    Child born abroad

    I can only suggest you follow the instructions first, and contact the high commission directly for details specific to country. They usually list the documents they require - i.e if they don't ask for ultrasound copies, do not provide.
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    May 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Definitely call IRCC tomorrow, first thing in morning is your best chance.
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    Citizenship application for minor (Refugee)

    https://eservices.cic.gc.ca/rescalc/redir.do?redir=faq#Q5 My understanding is that time as a Protected Person (with that official status) does count, but I bow to superior knowledge of others - I'm just going by what is in this reference.
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    March 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    My belief is that Vancouver office is a step for the security parts (BG&P), i.e. either all or those with certain types of security (the ones that take longer than bog-standard) go through Vancouver/are managed for that portion out of Vancouver. So it's not "Vancouver is slow", but "Vancouver...
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    Citizenship approved in December 2025 but no oath invite yet. Applied in July 2025 and approaching 9 months of mark (and 3+ months since LPP).

    It's understandable, but the potential problem is that 'trying to make sense of things' means seeing patterns where they aren't. We are heuristic machines and really want to understand stuff, to find the key. (I do this myself). But when it comes to the offices and what they do and what issues...
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    Citizenship approved in December 2025 but no oath invite yet. Applied in July 2025 and approaching 9 months of mark (and 3+ months since LPP).

    This basically amounts to an agreement between MPs and IRCC that they won't overload the system with requests - and the way they do it as by not asking about ones that are (by construction) 'normal.' And the normal is defined as ... less than the processing time posted. Personally I find - and...
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    PRTD (R-1 instead of RC-1), Entry to Canada, and PR Status

    What do you mean by 'such problems'? (Oh, you probably mean fraud etc - yes my comment was meant to be reassuring, that as long as all is truthful, should be no issue). At any rate, the point remains - the decision has been made by IRCC (really the lead agency on these), through a process...
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    PRTD (R-1 instead of RC-1), Entry to Canada, and PR Status

    I think you should not have an issue at the port of entry - you have the PRTD approved, that constitutes a decision, and unless there is some reason to revisit it (which would might be eg serious misrepresentation or fraud), the CBSA officers at the border will almost certainly not revisit that...
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    Goods to follow

    Congratulations. Overall our experience was fairly similar and easy. And our preps and docs provided were roughly similar, except perhaps that I only did the 'stuff by box' stage on the day of packing. (Things of value like antiques and art I'd prepared and listed before - but we didn't have all...
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    PRTD (R-1 instead of RC-1), Entry to Canada, and PR Status

    1. I cannot see into IRCC's decision process but I would treat this as, well, 'lucky.' Assuming you are now ~22 and only spent one month in Canada, the usual 'humanitarian and compassionate' (RC-1 code) would not seem to apply. So overall I think your caution is warranted at least at first. 2...
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    PR card renewal - mail not received

    Call IRCC.
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    Permanent residency extension

    Sounds like it to me, I've not been in this situation. Correct - or at least to board a plane TO Canada, you don't need one to leave, and entry by land border/private vehicle can be done without a valid PR card.