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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    I cannot read French. Even though the decision in Rosas Castro v. Canada, 2025 FC 1366, https://canlii.ca/t/kds88 was just last week, so a new decision, it does not offer new light on cessation cases. It does, however, illustrate how long the process can take: cessation proceedings started...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL APPLICATIONS JULY 2025

    My question is whether Health Card records from Provincial Health Ministry is acceptable or not? It appears you overlook the very instructions you copy here. Among the examples of items constituting evidence those instructions list (as you quote) "evidence that you received benefits from...
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    Documents to prove permanent residency obligations?

    For a PR who meets the RO based on days present here in Canada, who has been living here for awhile and is currently living here, they should be OK marking the "proof" item in the checklist if they include with the application, for example (one among many): -- a bank statement that shows the...
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    Lived outside of Canada with my ex (divorced) wife who is Canadian citizen, does that count towards meeting my residency days in Canada?

    xx Generally a period of time during which a PR is living with their Canadian citizen spouse outside Canada will be given credit toward the Residency Obligation for those days they are "ordinarily" residing together outside Canada. As @canuck78 references, there are situations in which this...
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    CBSA consent

    Thank you for pointing out that consent for CRA information sharing is still required. Like everyone who breathes, I make mistakes. Taking a closer look at the various versions of the application for citizenship, from over the years, I see that actually IRCC moved where the applicant gives...
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    CBSA consent

    Another Edit to Note there are significant errors in this post . . . see later post (assuming I post soon). Sometime ago there were changes in policy and practice, and some of the underlying law, which allows IRCC to directly access certain types of personal information held by other agencies...
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    Moving to Canada from US with PR

    You will be allowed to enter Canada. That's probably not your real question. And it appears that's not the question @canuck answered . . . or if it was, if that was intended to respond to whether you "will be allowed to enter Canada?" then it is in error, as it is more than possible to say...
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    SINP Residency and University outside of SK

    With limited exceptions, including somewhat more complicated contexts (such as with Quebec), that are not applicable here, there is no restriction on where a landed immigrant must "settle first." There are other considerations, as discussed, important considerations. But the statement "you...
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    SINP Residency and University outside of SK

    I have not been following SINP or provincial-nominee cases much for a long while now, so I cannot offer much beyond what has been posted in response so far, which covers the essentials as far as I know. That said, you appear to be asking about related risks more than qualifying criteria. After...
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    1095 days citizenship physical presence, am I good or should I withdraw my application?

    Yeah. And there is no shortage, none at all, of anecdotal reports from scores of qualified applicants suffering a processing time longer than the posted timeline, many who appear to be encountering additional processing to verify physical presence in particular. The main reason for applying...
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    physical presence calculation - Including pre-PR time as a visa-exempt visitor?

    Short Answer: Short answer, repeating what I have often posted, including in the threads you reference: Wait to apply not relying on credit for pre-PR days that are not formally documented. Wait to have another 30 days credit (a buffer) over the minimum. Then apply, including those days in the...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL APPLICATIONS JULY 2025

    Longer than what? When? Yes, the current processing time for IRCC to finalize somewhat more than half the PR card applications has recently increased by more than a week (yeah, wow, a whole damn week, plus a couple days) longer than it has been for three to six months. Currently around three...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Much of what I have been posting in this thread is aimed at quelling some underlying fear-mongering, my posts aimed at reassuring others, the vast, vast majority of those who pursue a grant of Canadian citizenship, that they need not fear being hit by lightning. It can happen. It does happen to...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    An Important Distinction: It is not clear what you mean by "it" here, in reference to what can happen. There is a big difference between longer processing times for some applicants (that is inevitable and happens to every applicant whose application does not get the benefit from being done as...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    I have not consumed that one, or I overlooked the comment. Not sure, however, what your point is in the context here. Recourse for a case in which IRCC has, in effect, dropped the ball, is a Federal Court action seeking mandamus relief, and the path to pursuing that relief goes through a...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    xxxxx As @Seym noted, applying for a writ of mandamus is the appropriate lawsuit for enforcing IRCC's legal obligation to process a citizenship application. If, for example, a person is seeking legal recourse for a breach of contract, the appropriate legal action for such a wrong is a suit in...
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    Issue with CBSA Travel Record – Impact on Citizenship Eligibility

    For clarification in broader context: Not sure to what extent it affects the travel history YOU reported in the residency calculation, if any at all, but in various scenarios entry and exit records from other countries do not accurately reflect exit dates from Canada or entry into Canada...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL APPLICATIONS JULY 2025

    Overall: Given the automated decision making procedure, for most PRs there is NO advantage in asking for urgent processing. Most PR card applications are being processed as fast as they possibly can. There may be some disadvantage in that just the request for urgent processing could slow the...
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    PR CARD RENEWAL APPLICATIONS JULY 2025

    As @armoured noted, it is NOT yet all that long, definitely NOT "very long," for processing a PR card application. Note that there have been many reports in this forum from PRs who saw nothing until IRCC showed that their application for a PR card was approved, never any "receipt" or AoR, and...
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    Are Finger Print requests by exception, random or everyone?

    I have seen no indication at all that IRCC is randomly requesting fingerprints from citizenship applicants, and very much doubt that is happening. IRCC periodically employs random selection methods in structured programs or projects for evaluating efficacy or quality control, which may be the...