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    Tell us when you filed your income taxes in the last 5 years

    The requirement for grant citizenship is COMPLIANCE with CRA tax filing rules, NOT necessarily filing a return. So if the applicant was not required to file a tax return for a given tax year, and did not file a return for that year, that still counts as one of the years of compliance. That is, a...
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    PR renewal - Days spent abroad

    No one here can reliably opine whether you will get credit toward the Residency Obligation for days you are outside Canada working for your business. As noted, for situations similar to what you describe, this is a TRICKY credit. And that is largely an understatement. Based on what you...
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    PR renewal - Days spent abroad

    Yep. Grey area. There are a number of details that will matter. Caution: this is a tricky exception and especially tricky for anyone working for themselves (or even working for a small family business). While it is something of an exaggeration, one might say that anyone who needs the...
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    PR card initial address part of address history

    CAUTION: a bit of a rant here, a lengthy rant. There is a persistent tendency in this forum to make question 10 (the address history question) far more complicated than necessary. And at the risk of being oppressively redundant, this post will repeatedly emphasize that the key is to be HONEST...
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    Not Meeting RO for PR Renewal

    @scylla and @armoured . . . a point of procedure, if I may . . . I realize that many participants in this forum (including you), in regards to those who are in breach of the RO, typically refer to the possibility that a PR card application might be "refused" or "denied," resulting in loss of PR...
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    Inadmissiblity Question ~ Looking for similar Alberta / BC case

    Some Highlights: A Foreign National (FN) is inadmissible if they have been convicted of any hybrid or indictable offence. Like a PR they are also inadmissible for serious criminality if convicted of an offence which could be punished by ten years imprisonment, but again a conviction for any...
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    applying for PRTD after a44 report has been overcome.

    @MahSh . . . if you elect to proceed by making a PR TD application, you will be relying on H&C relief since you clearly are not in compliance with the Residency Obligation. I cannot offer much about how to present your H&C case, including presenting the outcome of the 44(1) Report review very...
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    Entering Canada with an expired PR card - urgent please help.

    The post you quote is many years old, before some significant changes in the extent of travel history records CBSA border officials could readily access, before COVID and how that changed the general landscape of Port-of-Entry examinations and RO enforcement (which includes the post-Covid phase...
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    applying for PRTD after a44 report has been overcome.

    Your situation is both very unusual and tricky. It is likely NO ONE here can offer informed advice about what is the best approach for YOU. (No one here includes me of course.) Most of what others have offered, above, makes sense generally. But whether that is what is the best approach for you...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    I agree with the response by @scylla, adding my condolences. I do not know how this might go; no idea actually.
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    Citizenship application with active peace bond

    I am no expert. And I am for sure NOT anywhere near as good a source as an immigration lawyer. Not as good a source as a criminal defense lawyer either. I do not know why IRCC would ask for a copy of the peace bond. It is not likely that is what matters. Since there were charges, which you...
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    Citizenship application with active peace bond

    I am no expert. I am especially NOT qualified to evaluate and give an opinion about any particular individual's case. As noted in the post you quote (which was made many years ago), there are many variables, not all situations are the same. The details in your specific case are what matter. I...
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    Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship

    It would be a good idea to meet with a lawyer, one that you PAY for the lawyer's time to actually review the details in your situation, BEFORE you engage in any further transactions with IRCC or CBSA . . . before leaving Canada again, before applying for the RTD, before attempting to sponsor a...
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    ceremony cancelled administrative error

    I am NO expert and I do not know the status of any particular applicant. I do not know precisely what any CBSA or other Canadian officials have stated. In particular, I cannot say whether the CBSA officer stated that "citizenship is granted" or whether @mimika *understood* that based on...
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    Travelling while PR card being Renewed

    Generally, overall, there should be NO problem. However, there is NO guarantee a new PR card will be mailed to a PR who is outside Canada. If a new PR card is mailed to an address in Canada where a trusted family member or friend can take it and in turn courier it (or carry it) to the PR...
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    Asked for additional information - Please help.

    That's quite the mistake. If I understand the situation. You reported ZERO travel outside Canada for the previous five years? Even though you reported your address was outside Canada for two and a half months in 2022? And even though it appears you otherwise were outside Canada for some period...
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    PR card renewal through online application

    This is consistent with numerous anecdotal reports in the last few months and even though it appears no one else here is willing to do the homework and make the ATI request for more, internal IRCC information about it (I'm old and tired, done my share of the legwork over the last decade and a...
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    Spouse PR

    @scylla is correct about qualifying for citizenship. Current qualifications require three years physical presence IN Canada. Caution: To sponsor a spouse for PR the sponsor must either be IN Canada or, if a Canadian citizen, they can be outside Canada BUT ONLY IF they have plans to relocate to...
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    PR Renew - the days before the PR, in last 5 years

    A day trip to the U.S. perhaps? Hard to imagine that being a problem. Apologies in advance for . . . well, here it is . . . Canada does NOT restrict a PR's international travel. Whether you can travel to a country outside Canada depends on the laws of the destination country, and that...
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    PR renew- how is the residency days are calculated

    The quotes above are from the other topic you started which, essentially, is likewise about WHEN to make a PR card application and other considerations involved in doing that. I was picky there, and will continue to be picky. This is February 2024. If you made a PR card application today (let...