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Just got back from doing our landing at Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls. When we walked onto the bridge from the Canadian side, we asked the border guard if we had to go all the way to the US and if we had to have evidence we had entered. He said yes. So across the bridge we went, and into the...

A lot of us have been (finally!) getting our CoPRs and completing our landing lately. At the same time, there is a long wait of 3-4 months between landing and PR card, and Christmas will most likely come before the cards do. My partner and I are planning to spend Christmas with his family in...

I am curious about the notes about Funds in my GCMS notes. Basically, over and over, the note is: FUNDS FSW Minimum Funds: Met FSW Funds Exempt: Y Does anyone else have this notation in GCMS notes? What was your status? Mine was inland, FSW, working on open work permit, no LMIA.

I'm jumping the gun a little here, but weekends are the only time I can get this kind of thing done, and I want to be ready! How many pictures do you send back with your passport or passport scan when you get PPR? Two or six?

The Schedule A request I got for my partner said this: Schedule A: A separate and newly completed Schedule A Background Declaration form (IMM 5669) bearing an original signature. Please provide answers to Statutory Questions. Is that the same as the one everyone gets? His answers to the...

I am really hoping for a positive answer in the next couple of weeks, after the ECAS change to in process on August 15 and a Schedule A request on August 21. Can you guys tell me, assuming we get PPR, what we are going to have to send? We are both from visa waiver countries. Do we send our...

I am sure that the Toronto office that did my medical exam wrote the wrong codes on my medical exam. Under IME: they wrote EDE when it should have been non-EDE. Under the next line, they wrote EDE-FAMILY, when it should have been worker. I told them I was applying for permanent residence...

The experience of one or two of the earliest applicants makes it clear that CIC will return applications if they don't have a copy of your ECA - even if you wrote the reference number in your EE application, and even if they don't ask for it! I suggest uploading it with your other educational...

My IELTS results (and my partner's) both expire on April 17 this year. I'm not worried, because we are signed up to retake the exam on the 18th and should have our new results within our 60-day PR application limit. On my EE profile I posted the results and the confirmation number from the 2013...

For what it's worth, I called CIC this morning about the proof of funds requirement. My question: I am currently in Canada, working on an open work permit. I do not have an LMIA, but I got an invitation to apply under FSW. Will my current salary, supported by T4 and NOA, be enough to meet my...

I got some of my reference letters in late 2013, when I was planning to apply for FSW - and then I discovered I needed an LMO (now LMIA) for that category at the time. I submitted them again in late 2014, when I qualified for CEC - but my application came back as over the cap. Now I have an ITA...

Does anyone know, from CIC's mouth, if we really have to collect police reports from every country we've lived in EVERY 3 MONTHS while we wait in line on EE? Both countries I've lived in (the US and Slovakia) take 4-5 months to deliver the report, which means I should apply for a new one even...

New on the CIC website: "A fee of $100 will be collected, also starting February 21, 2015, from open work permit applicants. This fee will be paid at the same time as the work permit processing fee and can be paid online. The fees collected will offset the cost of new initiatives to improve...