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Hi All: Can anyone please give us a hand, with a rush passport-request info for the Ottawa Pilot Case-Processing Center? We've heard from Ottawa via email this week that there was some sort of mixup, and that we were supposed to have received a PPR months ago, back in February. Yesterday they...

Hi All, I know the new IMM 1344 is available online, but I'm unable to download it from CIC today. (Yes, my Adobe is up-to-date; it's just some glitch.) Could anyone please, just as a kindness to a stranger, post the PDF of IMM 1344 here, as a reply? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D THANK YOU SO...

Okay, here's the somewhat confusing situation: My husband is a Canadian citizen. I am an American citizen. He sponsored me and our daughter (family class / spouse) last year, and we landed as PRs in December. We have just adopted a baby from Ethiopia. (We won't be able to bring him home from...

Hi y'all, Instead of leaving the country to land, on Wednesday morning, I have my "landing" appointment in Halifax. (I've been in-country on a visitor's visa.) What do I do about my "personal effects" (that are back home in the States and will need to be brought into the country at a later...

Hi Gang, Today is a happy day: PASSPORT REQUEST after a long wait. Hurray!! Question: I still have a valid visitor's visa. Does anyone know if I'm still allowed to "land" by going to a local CIC office, as described in this bulletin two years ago...

Please don't flame me for asking a question that should be totally answerable by reading the guides, ok? I'm asking because I've heard conflicting things lately about the wait, etc. Thanks, all you super-helpful strangers!! :-* What can I expect from the whole passport request process? (I'm...

has anyone ever had a crazy saga like this?? my application went off in january with the FBI clearance in it. mississauga acknowledged receipt of the complete application. it went next to buffalo. then it went to the NY consulate to be "expedited." i was very surprised when the NY consulate...

hi All, For those of you who have gotten an FBI clearance letter RECENTLY, how long did it take the FBI to do it? Back story: I applied way back in January for my P.R., and everything was going hunky-dory until the original FBI clearance that I'd included with my application then was...

Here's another non-genius question from me: ;) My 6-month "visitor record" visa is expiring on June 6th, and nearly a month ago I applied online to extend it. So . . . will they mail me something, to let me know if it's been extended? Will I get a new, actual/physical visa? Just a letter...

This will sound like a truly inane question, but: what did your FBI "certificate" LOOK like? I got mine last winter, and it wasn't a certificate at all, just a simple letter stating "no criminal record was found." (The instructions from the FBI for applying for the certificate DO state that...

Okay, after much kerfuffle and back and forth, the New York consulate -- which has been processing my application for over a month now -- confirmed that I could pay my Right of Permanent Residency Fee online, with a credit card -- checking Mississauga as the office that the $$ was being sent to...

Hi All, I'd be really grateful for an interpretation of the letter I got yesterday. It seems to give two contradictory sets of instructions on the "Right of Permanent Residence Fee." Okay, up at the top of the letter I'm told: "All documents must be submitted by mail" to "the Canadian...

Okay, I sent my FBI clearance certificate with my original application in January. I have all sorts of evidence of this, which at this point I'm glad to have only to prove I haven't gone completely loco: 1) a Xerox of it; 2) my receipt showing I paid the US government for the clearance; 3)...

So I phoned the CIC hotline to ask if there was anything I could do to ensure my "medicals" had been forwarded from Ottawa to NYC, and the hotline operator gave me the direct contact info for NYC office, and told me I should ask them directly. As directed, I used the "case-specific" email...

I've been trying to go online to apply for an extension of my visitor record (which expires June 5th), but the MyCIC online service has been out of service for weeks. There's a notice on the website, just saying it's been out of commission since the end of March and they're working on the...

i'm applying outland -- cause my legal residence is still in the US -- but i'm living in canada while my application is being processed. (the canadian government knows this, and is using my nova scotia address to mail me stuff relating to my application, etc. i'm on a visitors' record right...

Hi gang, So I'm a U.S. citizen. But I'm fairly confident that my Canadian permanent residency will be approved sometime in the next couple of months. I'm trying to figure out where I will be filing taxes for 2010. Anyone know how this works? THANKS SO MUCH!

Hi Y'all! I got an email today saying that my application had been forwarded from Buffalo to NYC "to expedite" its processing. Judging from previous threads, this sounds like generally an okay thing. Do any of you have any opinions?? And: Do you think this means they've judged the application...

Hi All: Another not-so-brilliant question from me. THANK YOU in advance for any answer!! So: If my application is officially "in process" since March 11th in Buffalo, does that mean it's already been briefly reviewed and judged "complete"? Or could it still be returned to me as incomplete (for...

Okay, thanks in advance for your patience in answering my dumb questions. ;D I've looked online at the CIC website (under "after you're approved") but I can't find the nuts and bolts of the process. So... What happens once we're told we've been approved for permanent residency? We have to...