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    Travel with few days of PRTD being valid

    Hello everyone, My wife is a PR and she has a one year multiple-entry PRTD expiring on Dec 13, 2023. She is currently in Germany. Her PR card has come to her Toronto address and is with me. I thought it would be better that she pick it up when she visits Canada. She will be flying to Canada on...
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    EE CRS tool gives 406 but FSWP eligibility is not passing

    Hello everyone, I am trying to help my relative in India apply for Canadian PR from India. She has a PhD from the US, lots of work experience, but is above 45 and so no points for age and has no Canadian experience. She has a brother in Ontario and so some points for that. I tried the basic EE...
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    Planning return after getting PRTD

    Hello all, My wife received her passport request a few days back for a PRTD application. We have until Jan 11, 2023 to submit her passport. Since we are leaving for vacation in a few days, we plan to send the passport to the VAC (Dusseldorf since we are in Germany) in the first few days of...
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    PRTD Passport request

    Hello all, My wife applied for PRTD on 3rd Dec 2022 on the basis of accompanying a Canadian citizen. We are currently living in Germany. Yesterday she received an email asking for a scanned copy of all her passport pages though we had already uploaded it. Today morning, she got a passport...
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    Applied PRTD as accompanying Canadian citizen spouse

    Hello all, So, we finally applied for PRTD for my wife who has been out of Canada for the entire five year window period. Out of these five years, 2 years has been with her living alone outside Canada and 3 years with me (Canadian citizen) also outside Canada. Quite nervous sending in this...
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    Proof of address for PRTD application

    Hello everyone, I am putting together the documents needed for applying for PRTD for my wife claiming residence time as accompanying spouse to a Canadian citizen. I am currently in Germany. For my wife's address proof, we have city registration and other documents in Germany. For my own proof...
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    Renewing wife's PR as spouse of Canadian citizen

    Hello all, I have been a Canadian citizen since 2019 and prior to that got my PR in 2014. Since August 2019, I have been living in Germany as my wife got a job here. We have been married for 7 years and we got married in Toronto. I had sponsored her for Canadian PR and she got it in January...
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    PR spouse of citizen living outside Canada

    Hello all, I have been going through the forum and this question has been asked in some other flavors. These are my specific questions, as I think I have done my research. First, a brief background. I came to Canada in 2012 on work permit, became a PR through CEC in Oct 2014 and became a...
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    Job status during citizenship application

    Hello everyone, I have my citizenship test next Monday in Montreal. I read someone post about his interview experience that the interviewer asked whether he was still working in the same job. My question: If you lose your job with citizenship application in process, how does it affect your...
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    CRA review of federal foreign taxes paid

    Hello all, I lived in Germany for 8 months in 2017. I worked for a while as a free lancer. In Germany you have to register yourself and get a tax number. Also you have to make advance payments of all VAT that you charge on your services. I reported the VAT that I paid the German govt in 2017...
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    Returned to Canada after 10 months abroad - when to apply

    Hello all, I have been in Canada from September 2012 to May 2017. I spent 10 months in Germany and then came back to Canada (Montreal) a month back. I got my PR in Oct 2014 so by my calculations (excluding vacations), I have 3 years and 1 month of residency in total (after PR and before). I was...
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    Private health insurance coverage limit until OHIP

    Hello everyone, I lived in Ontario for five years between 2012 and 2017 as a temporary foreign worker and then as a PR. I was covered by OHIP. The past one year I have been in Germany. I am moving back to Ontario in mid March. Since I have lost my OHIP I was looking at the ManuLife health...
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    Temporary extension on Ontario driver's license

    Hello everyone, I was in Ontario from Sep 2012 to May 2017. I moved to Hamburg, Germany in May 2017 and plan to stay in Germany until May 2018 and then come back to Ontario. I had a driver's license from Jan 2013 which will expire in Jan 2018. I read that if the driver's license expires under...
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    OHIP Absence greater than 7 months

    Hello, I came to Ontario, Canada in September 2012 as temporary worker and got my OHIP in January 2013. I became a PR on October 2014. I stayed in Ontario, Canada continuously from September 2012 to May 2017 with short absences of less than a month every year for vacations to visit family. In...
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    Appealing condition 51 on grounds of UN position

    Hello everyone, Happy new year :). My wife landed on December 24 and has condition 51 on her COPR. She had been working with the United Nations (UNESCO) in Kabul, Afghanistan as a education specialist. She works with countries experiencing war and struggling to maintain education systems as a...
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    Finally ready to send my application

    And so I finally got all the documents together to sponsor my wife and wrote out the entire love story which is an epic of maybe 200 pages or so - photos, emails, texts, WhatsApp logs, Skype logs, bank statements. This application has been infinitely tougher than mine which was under CEC...
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    Country for processing

    Hello everyone, I am about to send out the application for my wife. But I had one doubt. She is a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic but is currently in Kabul, Afghanistan on a contract with the UN for 6 months. I was wondering whether they would choose the local office according to her country of...
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    Pasting photos on paper

    Hello all, Almost completed the application for sponsoring my wife. I took around 20 photos of my wedding (in Canada without our families) and another 30 of my visit to her country to meet her family. Rather than printing the photos on photo paper I was thinking of pasting the photos on paper...
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    Applicant from former USSR country

    Hello everyone, So my wife has been collecting all the documents needed for me to sponsor her. As her country is the Kyrgyz Republic and is a former Soviet Union country, a few of the documents will be specific to the Soviet Union. Just wanted advice about anything particular to watch out for...
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    About form 5406

    Hi, I am sponsoring my wife through the outland sponsor. In form 5406 "Additional Family information": The principal applicant, their spouse or common-law partner and all dependents 18 years or older must complete their own copy of this form. So would this mean there would be two copies of...