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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...
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    With the exception of spouses, I remain strongly skeptical that anyone is able to do actually do this. Unlike you, I've gone through this myself, and while on paper it's theoretically possible, in practice there are a lot roadblocks and obstacles. (It's not that you wouldn't get there...
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    YVR Landing as PR without meeting Residency Obligation 730 days

    Regardless I think the recommendation was not to attempt to bring the car over until after a successful entry. I suppose though that doesn't rule out a friend driving the car over a land border (or ferry crossing) to avoid the expensive of shipping a car over via a commercial company.
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    Canadian PR Entry Concerns: Crossing Canada border with Family from Detroit USA without meeting Residency Obligation

    I think the poster was asking not if the OP got reported (as the OP reported that the OP was in fact reported) but if the formal notice had shown up in the mail yet. (The last update was that it hadn't shown up yet, and advice from a lawyer said there's no need to do anything until it does show...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    You're always right to raise this first - we need to make clear how things actually work (no matter how much we may dislike it) so that a casual reader won't misinterpret or walk away with the wrong impression. It'd be horrifying if someone read a single page - or even just one post - of this...
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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...