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    PR Residency Obligation: COPR June 2024, PR Card Jan 2025

    The date on the card is irrelevant except as the final date of validity of that card. There are no 'five year periods'. The only specific date that matters is the day you became a PR (landing date or COPR), which should also be on the back of your card as 'PR since' - and of course the day/date...
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    Citizenship Application - Didn’t declare marital status

    -Deal with CRA and whomever else asap - these could potentially cost you money. -In parallel, he should send a webform to IRCC regarding his app and update - include all information that he would/should have included at the time. (I don't recall how much detail is about spouse in citizenship...
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    Delayed Citizenship Applicantions

    For long delays ie. > year vast majority are security which will show as BG/LPP/Prohibitions.
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    Can Canadian citizenship by descent flow through adopted ancestor (adoption in 1920)?

    I agree with your interpretation - at least by basic logic - just reporting what the IRCC website says here. (And I think the statement I quoted above is contradicted elsewhere, so I absolutely would not rely upon it)
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    IRPA 28(2)(a)(ii) Calculation: Soft Landing Only + Co-habitation with Citizen Spouse Prior to Divorce

    Not sure I understand timing of your spouse's case, but if you left around the time your spouse became the PR and she subsequently became a citizen - it sounds like she must have remained in Canada? (At least more of the time / enough time to accumulate 1095 days physically in Canada). Once the...
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    Can Canadian citizenship by descent flow through adopted ancestor (adoption in 1920)?

    For what may be a different (I think?) take on this, see here: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html Later down on adopted cases: "If you were born or adopted before December 15, 2025 ... Adopted people are likely...
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    Can Canadian citizenship by descent flow through adopted ancestor (adoption in 1920)?

    I believe the answer is no - I recall reading it somewhere recently but can't off the top of my head say exactly where. Don't take this as last word, do look into it. But I believe it has to be a clean series of biological links, or at least the adopted individual had to have acquired Canadian...
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    I think the situation is fairly clear: the citizenship days-present standard of proof may or may not be the same on paper, but in practice, the PR residency obligation is backstopped by the possibility of lenience - indeed in many circumstances not just a hypothetical probability but even a very...
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    October 2024 - Citizenship Applications

    Your PR status and card are independent of your spouse, so no, there should be no reason to do so.
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    Application for Canadian Citizenship - A Comprehensive Guide

    You'll have to read it to find out.
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    PR Card Renewal Before Completing 730 Days: Can I Apply Within 9-Month Renewal Window?

    I don't get what your quoted texts were supposed to address. Again, my point is only that I think this overlap of topics confuses the issue of applying 'early' (before one's PR card has expired) - which is not controversial, except for the point of being in compliance or not. Specifically: it...
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    Confused about the question : "Have you ever used any other name?" in citizenship application

    I don't think a sworn/certified affidavit is needed. Since the name is just a variation on the name you use, with one of the names initialized, just include a short LOE with the info above,(.e. your full name is Xx Yy Zz as on passport and what you use customarily. In some contexts in home...
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    I don't have any other suggestions than those above.
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    That's relevant information you left out. It doesn't formally affect the day count. But as noted, benefit of the doubt is not in your favour.
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    PR Card Renewal Before Completing 730 Days: Can I Apply Within 9-Month Renewal Window?

    The post above (to which you were replying) does NOT belong in this thread, which originally discussed an entirely different set of facts. The issue is NOT about whether one can apply 'early' i.e. before their card expires. One can apply 'early' in this sense. The issue brought up by the...
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    That's not a lot of buffer for the amount of travel you've done, so looks like that's it. As I mentioned, our case seemed to go fine once the officer was convinced of the background and that spouse's residence was in fact in Canada and only trips outside. (My /speculation/ is that they're not...
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    Complex file review - Citizenship Interview

    The PR extension history is irrelevant in one important sense, that the citizenship law's requirements are very specific: you MUST have the minimum number of days or the grant request shall be denied. (Read 'shall' in law to mean absolute requirement, or at least, if they're aware of...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Complain and copy your MP, that way at least they hear about this mess.
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    I don't know.
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    They send you an email stating that under such and such provision, they are allowed an extra thirty days. I don't know about whether complaints work - I take it on faith we should do them anyway.