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    Apply early before 5 month trip, or wait till after return?

    . I fully agree with waiting to apply for a new PR card when in compliance with the Residency Obligation. A PR who has been outside Canada fewer than 1095 days since becoming a PR, or fewer than 1095 within the previous five years, is in compliance with the RO. So it appears she is in...
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    PR renewal for Spouse who hasn't met residency obligations

    . For clarification: in the OP's situation there are multiple reasons why the credit that is given days a PR is accompanying their citizen spouse abroad is not likely to help the OP, including just the numbers. They were married just this year, so EVEN if this credit were allowed it would fall...
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    PR renewal for Spouse who hasn't met residency obligations

    Considering Option of Applying For PR Travel Document: As previously noted, generally few would consider this approach if a PR has the option of traveling to Canada without a valid PR card. In the particular situation, however, it may make sense, especially if there are H&C factors underlying...
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    PR renewal for Spouse who hasn't met residency obligations

    There are, basically, three "options" for her:" -- wait until she travels to Canada and sees how it goes at the Port-of-Entry (PoE) -- apply for a PR Travel Document, or -- renounce her PR status and then, as a Foreign National (FN), make a family class application for PR sponsored by you Only...
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    2023 Citizenship Applications

    Even assuming seeking mandamus will make a difference, there is not much point in pursing mandamus without the assistance of a lawyer. I was told by a lawyer clerking for a judge, for example, that the technicalities are so daunting that even among mandamus applications made by lawyers many...
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    Living with Canadian Citizen abroad - Definition of accompanying

    PRs who are in breach of the Residency Obligation before the expiration of their PR card can be and many have been subject to inadmissibility proceedings resulting in a decision terminating PR status. That includes PRs still within the first five years of landing, as the OP here is. Odds are...
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    Living with Canadian Citizen abroad - Definition of accompanying

    Overall, in cases that stray outside the standard boundaries and involve complicated issues, particularly those that involve a RO breach, no one here can reliably quantify the odds. There are, however, numerous factors known to influence the odds. Like in RO breach cases, the bigger the breach...
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    Question about Immigration status in other countries or territories.

    . Not sure why, but Q 13 has suddenly become a bit of a hot topic lately. In any event, applicants are not immigration experts and are not expected to be experts. The application is not a test of the applicant's expertise in immigration. If the applicant discloses they had status and gives...
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    New requirement to disclose travel history from birth ??

    In regards to ESTA . . . that is a type of travel authorization, like eTA for Canada. Which is somewhat akin to a visa (but to be clear, different from a visa in important respects), which likewise is a travel authorization. Q 13 asks for information about having immigration status, so the...
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    Question: Do you currently, or have you ever held immigration or citizenship status in a country or territory other than Canada (this includes your

    . I do not know what the OP did. If you know you had immigration status (including temporary status, contrary to some comments above) that should be disclosed, including the date obtained and the date it ended. I will elaborate in regards to how visitor visas fit into this below. So, in a...
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    PR Card Successfully Renewed for Sponsored Parents - H&C Grounds / Not meeting RO

    . Beyond the scope of well-worn processing patterns (such as those underlying the conventional wisdom for PRs in RO breach, and in Canada, to wait to apply for a new PR card only after they have stayed long enough to be in RO compliance), trying to figure out what went on under-the-hood in...
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    PR Card Successfully Renewed for Sponsored Parents - H&C Grounds / Not meeting RO

    Some Context; Further Observations . . . apart from the OP's situation . . . At the risk of repeating what I have posted before, the requirement to be IN Canada when making a PR card application warrants some further explanation or clarification apart from the OP's situation. And, perhaps...
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    PR Card renewal rejected

    Assuming you mean "MRZ" rather than "MZR," wait for communication from IRCC and follow their instructions. Otherwise, probably likewise but I am not familiar with what MZR means in regards to identification, PR cards, or PR card applications. Again assuming you mean "MRZ," as long as your ID is...
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    Automated Decision-Making -- "Advanced Analytics" -- and AI, yeah that AI, so maybe some GOTCHA

    Given some other conversations of late . . . Some AI/automated processing related speculation: It is quite possible that the combination of online applications and machine processing will facilitate some fudging of information, at least during these transition periods (which will take many...
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    PR Card Successfully Renewed for Sponsored Parents - H&C Grounds / Not meeting RO

    You might want to see a lawyer before you say or do anything more in regards to this. If a PR card application was submitted with the "I am in Canada" box checked, or the equivalent in an online application, for a PR who was not in Canada at the time the application was submitted, that is a...
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    PR Card Successfully Renewed for Sponsored Parents - H&C Grounds / Not meeting RO

    Congratulations. Am curious, however, how they got around the requirement to be IN Canada when they made the application for new PR cards. That is something many others are interested in navigating, to the extent possible. So this is information that would almost certainly be much appreciated.
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    New requirement to disclose travel history from birth ??

    Further Explanation and Observations: This question was added to the grant citizenship application in February 2019, in paper application form CIT 0002 (02-2019)E . . . it was not in the previous application forms including the form adopted in June 2017, that is CIT 0002 (06-2017)E. The...
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    New requirement to disclose travel history from birth ??

    Question 13 in the citizenship application: "Do you currently, or have you ever held immigration or citizenship status in a country or territory other than Canada (this includes your country of birth)?” For sure, at minimum, the application form is asking the applicant to disclose ALL formal...
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    PR Card successfully Renewed - H&C grounds / Not meeting RO

    A sidebar regarding "freebies" . . . resisting the temptation to get into the technical weeds, to define "freebies" perhaps . . . Actually the temptation was to couch these particular observations as a sideshow rather than a sidebar. There are no technicalities in regards to freebies, no...
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    PR Card successfully Renewed - H&C grounds / Not meeting RO

    The latter later . . . First from back in early May: Extensive detail is indeed good information. Much appreciated. Your story, however, demands a big red flag, a caution: just in procedural terms your situation is uncommon, probably unusual if not highly unusual (will explain below), so...