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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    This one feels pretty outrageous to me. They are making these trips to convince their family members to become refugees as well - to essentially rescue them. They are successful once, on on the final try, the guy's mom dies the day after he arrives. These "rescue attempts" are now what is being...
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    US B1/B2 Visa Questions

    It's been a while since I looked at this but is there a way on their site to submit a feedback request or something? Might be worth trying to submit the explanation of your issue to their website technical support, in case the staff there can pass along the message to someone who can fix it...
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    Need help with regaining status

    Same. Considering what's at stake and how little time the OP has, I'd just call - worst they can do is state that one is not eligible (but often even then they may know of some other organization that can help).
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    Open Work Permit for the spouse using AOR received from inland PR application

    The second part - that is past tense right? How long ago was it before he stopped working?
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Sounds like it wouldn't be particularly noticeable, and remember they get huge amounts of apps and are just churning thru - so I doubt anyone is going to spent a lot of time closely looking at your photo unless something is immediately noticeably off on it (or if there are other issues on the...
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    US B1/B2 Visa Questions

    This is really weird. It reads as if in the middle of the interview, when you got stuck, you got up and made a call to the lawyers... but I'm pretty sure you can't do that in the middle of an actual interview. That's quite vague and quite impossible to draw any reasonable sort of conclusion...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Agreed and well said. Even if one accepts for the sake of argument that citizenship is a privilege not a right, having your application processed in a timely manner is definitely a right separate from this. It's not the first or last time I've seen garbage from spez's site. IC used to have...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    Definitely not, unless the OHIP is somehow slightly shorter than exactly five years. Both came in by mail but I waited until I had my PR card in hand (and I actually had it routed elsewhere since I was in the middle of moving and only received it a few weeks after it officially landed). But I...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    In fact, it was! I wonder if this is the key difference - though it sounded like for the OP, it was the first time for everything (like first PR card and first health card, etc). Definitely not true for those who apply for the first time or who have previously applied and are renewing on...
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    Religious Marriage Certificate

    Agree with all your advice here. I consider this pretty settled. Because of COVID, California and a few other US states went ahead and allowed marriage over zoom - where both parties attended at the time, but at least one did it over a zoom call. This thus comes up a lot since some of these...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    Well, I live in Ontario, and mine was tied. Granted, it's almost five years long - but there's a difference of a couple weeks so while not a big deal for me, it's noticable. (I.e. if it was exactly five years and not tied, my health card should be good for a few more weeks past the end of my PR...
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    Religious Marriage Certificate

    Unfortunately I think I have some bad news for you. So this part is a little confusing, it's not clear to me if IRCC will ask if it's valid as per Saudi Arabian law - that they consider the marriage to have taken place in Saudi Arabia - or Pakistanian law - and they consider the marriage to...
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    Open Work Permit for the spouse using AOR received from inland PR application

    Were you out of status? AOR is enough as long as you have maintained status, but if you go out of status and can't restore, then it seems - based on other reports on this forum - that you need AIP to be able to successfully.
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    Hey, congrats! From what I've seen and read elsewhere this is not usually the case, so I'm (happily) caught by surprise here. Out of curiosity, which province did this for you? May help others in similar situations in the future. Was also curious - what is going on with your non-PR son? Was he...
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    Open Work Permit for the spouse using AOR received from inland PR application

    Yes, I believe that is how it would work. Uhm... what's his situation exactly? Because usually once your PR is processing you are allowed to stay and wait for the decision to get made.
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    Still requires a distinct application to receive another one. This, pretty much. In fact, even after landing in Canada, applying for a PR card is considered risky - it seems that the determination to let you in on H&C reasons the one time by an officer of the CBSA is not binding on the IRCC...
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    Supervisa stay confused

    From what I understand this mainly is administrative on their end and is done for these two reasons: to note that the host (yourself) has PR and thus meets the requirements, and also as a implicit acknowledgement of dual intent. I don't believe so - the writing was just a note for future...
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    US B1/B2 Visa Questions

    its been a while, my recollection is we did indeed need a new DS-160 but we didn't have to pay any additional fees to reschedule. (Perhaps because it was cancelled by them on their end?)
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    US B1/B2 Visa Questions

    Happened to us some years ago. The nice thing about this was we didn't have to repay fees for a new app. When we finally did PR, we then finished the booking (which was on the tail end of covid times so involved some considerable frustration and waiting). However, the appointment itself, in...
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    April 2025 - Citizenship Applications

    Yup, me. I sure hope so ... I mean, we're technically still within normal processing times...right? .... *crickets chirping* .... Right???