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    Protected Person - Open work permit renewal

    Wondering if "first time renewal" made a difference here. While it won't speed things up either, you could try ordering GCMS notes. They don't always reveal anything, but it's possible a careful read might reveal a potential cause. Yeah... the other thing that came to mind is perhaps the...
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    PR Card Renewal Before Completing 730 Days: Can I Apply Within 9-Month Renewal Window?

    Yep, that's more or less the same advice in this forum - if you can get in *, just stay and don't leave Canada until RO is met. * Well, I should add that getting in means getting in legally, that is through an official port of entry that allows border officials to inspect you if they chose to -...
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    PR Card Renewal Before Completing 730 Days: Can I Apply Within 9-Month Renewal Window?

    Ah, I think I see what you are saying now. Both the original OP (the thread starter) and I were looking at this from the framing of "if i don't have enough days to be in compliance" but you're right: The question of "am i in compliance" and "how many days do I have in Canada" are two separate...
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    PR Card Renewal Before Completing 730 Days: Can I Apply Within 9-Month Renewal Window?

    https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/pr-card-renewal-before-completing-730-days-can-i-apply-within-9-month-renewal-window.879744/#post-11142246...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    You can file now since you never got the notification. (Also note that if you had gotten that notification, you could still file now if you disagreed with the reasons or thought it was otherwise unreasonable... then it's up to the ombudsman's office to decide if you're right or not. So it's only...
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    PR Card Renewal Before Completing 730 Days: Can I Apply Within 9-Month Renewal Window?

    Answered in https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/yvr-landing-as-pr-without-meeting-residency-obligation-730-days.872122/page-4#post-11146681 This is a good point. I think the main reason why folks try to apply early is to get it processed and finished earlier...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    ("-ࡇ-) Why? I assumed that the ombudsman had a way of checking and seeing how long IRCC took to answer cases and stuff for ATIP and could compile the relevant statistics. But if it's the case that the ombudsman doesn't actually know about these things unless we report each one individually to...
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    YVR Landing as PR without meeting Residency Obligation 730 days

    I agree with the response that you'll have the best possible chance working with a lawyer, but I also understand the consultant's pessimism here. There are a handful of things about the timeline which seem to make for less than the strongest possible case for H&C, though of course there may be a...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Dealing with CBSA, the first time I got an ATIP request fulfilled within the first 30 days. But that was many years ago. Later, a second request to them - they sent me the notification late, like 34 or 35 days after I had applied, that they were going to need the extra 30, but I still got the...
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    Clarification on open work permit for spousal application

    Ah right, those are really good points on two counts: typically they only want the proof of living together if common-law or otherwise unmarried, as a marriage certificate is on its own considered very strong proof and evidence and documentation of the relationship (though i'm sure some basic...
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    Clarification on open work permit for spousal application

    So dual intent in Canada is less strict than in some other places, e.g. the US. Basically yes this is exactly what you want to show - if her PR is approved she'll stay but that she will leave, and will want to leave, if the PR isn't approved in time for some reason. I was in a similar situation...
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    YVR Landing as PR without meeting Residency Obligation 730 days

    I don't think anyone has precise numbers, but if you are ok with a very rough ballpark figure, consider it 50/50. I was somehow under the impression though that if in the end the final determination goes your way, and it's decided to allow you to retain PR (based on H&C or whatever reason)...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    No. It's a different officer from a different team who handles this. Since under the PA it's also free, there's absolutely no downside - the worst case is just that there's nothing helpful and you are at the same place you were before you ordered. I wasn't in this situation when I requested my...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    This is really interesting. Basically the lawyer is saying two thing at once: "it’s possible you could receive follow-up communications or be asked for additional information as part of their routine checks." i.e. you can't ever consider yourself completely out of the woods until you are fully...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    It's unusual that I see something like this - your posts are usually high quality and very well informed. But this time... I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here. Here's how it is: Not true. The only part that applies going forward is that if you were born ON OR AFTER December 15, 2025...
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    YVR Landing as PR without meeting Residency Obligation 730 days

    OP mentions this in the very first post in this thread - 1,180 days outside of Canada, considering that 1,095 is the limit (the max one could theoretically stay outside of Canada without breaching RO) this puts OP at 85 days over, or almost three months. Now there's another recent case here...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    Did the lawyer advice you on how long you'd have to wait before it becomes unlikely that they'd ever send you that notice? It's been no more than a couple of months if I've got my timeline right here, I don't know if there's a legal limit on time after which they are no longer allowed to bring...
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    Citizenship Application: Handling a Temporary Resident "Restoration Gap" in the Online Calculator

    This wasn't my situation, but my guess is that it wouldn't trigger the non-routine pipeline. You have enough days and are only claiming days for which you unambiguously qualify for, along with a good explanation for the period of non-status. In other words, you make life easy for the officer...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    What I find really interesting here is that I wrote a proposal, that I thought addressed some of your concerns, and you didn't comment on it. It's really easy to say something generically vague like "Many of these policies hurt Canada and need to be reassessed" (after all, everything has a...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    *looks at my nearly ten year path and current lack of citizenship* So yeah, I think that maxim, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" applies here. Don't just say they exist, actually give me some actual examples of this happening. If nothing else, there should be lots of...