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What is the best way to get affordable car insurance as a newcomer to Canada? They seem to rip off immigrants from what I have seen by the sample quotes I have been getting...

It seems that Canadian insurers think that immigrants from countries other than UK and USa are made of money...I was quoted 400 bucks a month to insure a car..how to keep it cheap?

What to do? I just got my visa and plan on landing in Canada around July. By that time our baby will have been born, but outside Canada. The wife (sponsor, naturalized Canadian citizen) plans on getting the babe hooked up with Canadian citizenship right after birth, and we will take the little...

We have been told on this forum and elsewhere that the sponsor (in this case spouse) must either be waiting in Canada or accompany the immigrant through the first point of entry. Yet today at the Canadian embassy, the lady at the window told me that this is not the case (ie I can go first and my...

Hello, so we have the visa and supposedly we have until August 2010 to "land," as they call it. What happens if we don't have our flat sold by then, or other issues? Can we come back to our country of departure for however long we want after we land in order to tie up loose ends??

Anyone else here applying throught the Warsaw visa office and care to share details...?

Is it generally prudent to send supporting application materials as they become available to your outbound visa office once your ap is "IN PROCESS" or does this just slow down the application process? For example, I wrote an email to the visa office if they require an FBI record and they...

I have not received an answer to this health-related question on the health forum so I will try here...what would you recommend for a woman who is pregnant (Canadian citizen) and has been out of Canada for over a year? What does private insurance run over the 3 month waiting period (which may...

Hello, what advice would you give to a returning Canadian naturalised citizen who has been out of the country for over a year and is pregnant? Would she be required to buy private insurance during the 3 month wait period?

Question: if a returning ONT resident/Canadian citizen returns to Canada after being out of the country for a few years gets her health coverage back after 3 months (according to ONTARIO HEALTH website, etc) how can she bridge the gap between arrival and the 3 months? Especially relevant if she...

OK what is the deal, I have a EU (Poland) DL and before that I have had a DL from the USA, driving a total of about 18 years accident free. Am I going to be treated like a teenager / first-time DL applicant upon landing in Canada? Will I have to take Driver Education courses and all that fluff?

This may seem obvious to some, but are college degrees from the USA recognised without hassle in Canada? Or will employers be dubious in any way?

Can anyone shed some light? I had my medicals and sent the card from the doctor along with my ap, as instructed, but I see a lot of talk on this site about people receiving requests for medicals while in the middle (or towards the end) of the ap process. The earlier reply to my question was a...

Here is the scenario we need advice with...Wife: naturalised Canadian citizen living abroad. Me: waiting for PR visa based on family class sponsorship. Baby on the way (new surprise development while waiting for the visa process to run its course), will be born before our planned emigration date...

Here's another question: does dual citizenship on the part of the sponsored party represent any sort of hindrance to the application process? If someone is applying from a country where he or she is currently based but is also a citizen of the US, for example? More junk for them to check? Would...

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Has anyone here provided proof of marriage by listing website links (picassa, flickr, etc) to photos of you marriage? Thought this was a good idea, convenient for the people processing your application and less hassle for the applicant what with developing and sending hard copy photos. In the...

So what happens after your sponsor gets a letter saying from the processing centre saying that your sponsorship application is approved? (considering you both live overseas, outside Canada?) What is the timeline? Interview at the embassy?

Hello, CIC's online system shows that our application (wife sponsoring husband) was received in early Oct, then reviewed on Oct 28th which is the exact day a decision was made and the response mailed (which we have yet to recieve). CIC will not show noline what that decision actually is. Is the...

Can anyone help with the following question?? Background: many many years ago, while an irresponsible college student I eloped with a Canadian girl while vacationing in her home town in Canada (the culmination of a grueling long-distance relationship borne of a summer spent backpacking around...