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Thank you Love Young, I really feel such a relief, it was loooooong! Yes, my local office is Montreal, I was also told by CIC call centre that some local offices would prefer not to receive the fee at landing interview, so I'd better just pay it online now...

Hello guys, I finally got to the end of my PR process after 19 months! I just got a letter saying that my PR process has been completed and now I am asked to send photos and pay the permanent residence fees, but I'm confused here: Don't we pay the PR fee at our landing interview normally...

Plumosa, I do hope all IOs have the same kind of mentality as Couchsurfers, or at least you and I! I am just worried that they could judge our relationship capricious or irregular as we are not doing what most people do: sticking at one place, having a stable career, planning to build a family...

Hello all, I am still preparing my documents to re-send, while I was collecting the documents, I have such concern: The whole pile of document I'm sending contains a lot of our travel information, since during that one year period, we travelled a lot together, after all, we are both keen...

Does anybody know whether a letter signed by a commissioner of oath and a notary weighs the same? I saw on the statutory declaration that a commissioner of oath is required to sign it, what about the letters written by friends and family then? Thank you in advance!

Thank you. All these emails will take me so long to print out! But at least, I've learned to be more prudent now while facing this kind of immigration thing...

Minna, I have supplied the lease and letters I have that proved we lived together for 1 year and 9 months before my application (letter from his mother and previous landlord in my home country). Apparently, showing that we live together isn't enough, I guess they want to see that we were indeed...

Hello, Thanks for your advice, however the letter I received stated that '' the proof you supplied isn't sufficient to establish that your relationship of common-law partner existed one year prior to the date of your permanent residence application'. You should submit more documents which were...

Thank you for all your replies. I think I will just give them whatever I can think of as additional information then, it's true that we must have emails, and some other little things...hopefully all little things come together would become a strong evidence! However, I am wondering if they...

Well, it's too late to open a bank account now, what they want is a proof of common law relationship during that time, not right now... And I DID send a statutory declaration of common-law, plus one solemn letter from my partner's friend signed by a lawyer, another 2 solemn letters signed in...

1 year of co-habitation doesn't mean 1 year of living together AT THE SAME PLACE right? We have always lived together at difference places, we were not living together on and off. We don't have joint back account because I am not eligible to open any bank accounts in Canada as long as I am not...

They want proof starting from Sept 2008, because I sent in the application in Sept 2009, that's exactly the 1 year they need.

I thought I was going to receive AIP and work permit soon but today I got a letter from CIC saying that the evidence we had sent to them isn't enough to prove that we had a 1-year common law relationship prior to the application. It's unbelievable for me because I already got the letter from...

After around 6 months, you'll receive a letter from CIC saying that you can proceed with the undertaking application at MICC. You won't receive AIP before CSQ (certificat de sélection du Québec) anyway. So, AIP and open work permit usually come after CSQ, there's no more application to do and no...

Good news Alibaba! You must have been very stressed out before. (If I were you, I would be anyway)... So, maybe they didn't even notice your PR app!

ailibaba, are you coming back to Canada in a few days? Have you prepared all your documentation? yes, in their eyes, your ticket would be one-way, but personally I don't think having a return ticket in YOUR case would help much. Just get yourself prepared with all the needed documents and if...

Oh, so did you mean if we have no SIN number, sponse gets no tax return? I still haven't received OWP but perhaps my partner could have filed me as his dependant last fiscal year during all this time of waiting! Did you declare that you are his dependant in the last fiscal year while you were...

To my understanding, OWP is neither a TRP nor TRV, for me it's a working permit with implied status( you might lose it when you come back, I'm not 100% sure though, you'd better check it) in any case, neither AIP nor OWP guarantees re-entry to Canada, so it doesn't change much whether an OWP is...

Then, may I ask what your reason of going back to London? I don't think you should find any "excuse", just explain to them with honesty and show them you have everything in order, I mean...you have no choice now and you have to come back to Canada asap to wait out your app, so just prepare...

alibaba, you mean you're coming back on 1st JUNE right? I read about your story weeks before when you were hesitating between withdrawing your inland application and re-applying outland from London, you still haven't come back to Canada since then? Someone said that it would be easier for a...