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It seems to me that it's just in the last year or two that they've introduced this preface to an online application since I don't recall this issue when I applied for my wife's visit visa summer of 2014. This would seem to render the IMM5713 "Use of a family member for online applications"...

Checklist for China says "You should take the required medical examination before submitting the Super Visa application by visiting one of the Panel Physicians for China and Mongolia." Is this an absolute must? The checklist for a permanent residency app also called for an upfront medical...

I had just arrived at YEG and was waiting inside near entrance 10, the southernmost entrance on arrivals, which is as close as one can get before being able to meet someone whose first point of landing in Canada is in Edmonton, when I got a call on my mobile: "This is Edmonton Immigration, we...

I was told For all e-mail correspondence with the [name of overseas] office, you are requested to use the enquiries form at: https://dmp-portal.cic.gc.ca/cicemail/intro-eng.aspx?mission=[overseas office] But https://dmp-portal.cic.gc.ca/cicemail/intro-eng.aspx isn't loading. The browser...

Mississauga isn't sending applications to Beijing anymore, and apps currently in Beijing have been sent to Hong Kong as well, according to reports. Beijing sent my spouse a notice saying her application is now in Hong Kong's "inventory." No comment on whether they opened it during the two and...

US overseas visa offices appear to be considerably more open about their work than their Canadian counterparts, and I’ve accordingly been looking at the what US visa officers have been saying for some insight into their thinking. There is, however, a key distinction in the US approach, and that...

I advised my wife to renew her US visa before she lands in Canada because she is exempt from having to interview at a US consulate if she renews in the same country she received her earlier US visa and would no longer be exempt after becoming a Canadian resident (so we'd have to drive to nearest...