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If moving to Canada as a Chinese citizen with a Chinese name, when is the easiest way to change to an English name for Canadian ID documents during the immigration process? How would this be done? Is a legal name change with the Province the only way to do this? Same question but with regard to...

Under the new C-6 (now law), is the following criteria still valid for calculating days present in Canada (taken from CIT 0407 (06-2015) E, "HOW TO CALCULATE PHYSICAL PRESENCE"): • You leave Canada on July 5 and return to Canada on the same day; total number of days absent = 0 • You leave...

Can the successful completion of a 12-month vocational certificate from a Canadian technical college be grounds for a waiver of demonstrating English competency (by exam) for a citizenship application?

Not sure I am searching prior posts correctly so I want to ask this. I have Canada PR status. My employer has been sending me on field assignments outside Canada for long stretches (1-4 months) for the past few years. For the purposes of counting the number of days resident in Canada to...

My family and I recently completed the permanent residency application process under PnP. All of us except one dependent has now landed. The last dependent is away at university outside Canada and unable to land before the letter expires. Does anyone know if there is any way to extend the...

I landed on 20 July. Now remember I have travel plans outside Canada in Sept. One trip to US for a weekend in early Sept. And another longer trip outside North America later in the month. I come from a visa-free status country. Reading through Guide 5529, I see the travel document is applied...

I just read David Cohen's new July issue of Immigration News. Fantastic newsletter. Always very helpful (thanks!). I note that in the newsletter, there is mention of changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), specifically to International Mobility Programs (IMP) of which workers...

I have been present and working legally in Canada since the beginning of 2011 in a job class that is included in the Experience Class criteria. I applied to Ottawa for PR under PNP in July 2013. The process seems to be taking longer than normal to process. I have recently read that some...

I've asked this question in the past but the responses seem to miss the context. So there four in our family's PnP application. Wife and I with two adult dependents 18-21. So when our PR is finally approved and we're ready to land, it is likely that it will be just my wife and I landing. At...

We have three dependent children on our PnP stream application currently in process in Ottawa. They are included in the application packet, as necessary, and have completed all the documentation requirements (police certificates, medical exams...) but are unsure whether they want to make the...

I am seeking to bring my son, a US resident, to western Canada from California. He has two misdemeanor convictions. I have already consulted with a local immigration attorney on my matter but I honestly feel I am seeking an attorney who specializes more with matters directly with CBSA and...

I am a US citizen in Alberta on a TN permit working for a local company. My employer is a locally registered company and complies with the current requirements of the Provincial Nominee programme. I would like to apply for permanent residency as a provincial nominee. The company was recently...