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Your words just melt our hearts! To Xumbrega I hereby bestow the Future Citizens of Inconvenience Award, aka the Ted Cruz Award. Canadian-bored [sic], Cuban-American Rafael Eduardo Ted Cruz may well have become the godfather of the Canadians of Inconvenience League, when he paid the nominal...

What will we have to masticate then? If any of our chatmates should desire to masticate, then I suggest that he/she do so elsewhere, behind closed doors! Groucho, or even Chico may have used the word "lying" on an occasion or two, I don't know, but my quotation is one which I know, as a matter...

We are all in and fresh off the same boat. Some people are contacting the call centre on many occasions (no wonder there is a long wait time!), then averaging the resultant information. Others are exchanging their anxieties and frustrations with us, as if the compelling nature of our...

I think we've analysed this aspect of C-24 more thoroughly than the MPs (even the SPs) did before its passage. Literally, within hours of the passage of C-24, the CIC, in a much welcomed, reassuring gesture, announced the new residency requirement as coming into effect "in approximately a...

To: Kuchenhersteller Unless you are privy to high level governmental information, the date of implementation of the final stage of C-24 has not been officially released. In fact, there is a greater indication of 19 June 2015, than 19 July 2015. dpenabill has done considerable research and...

In response to your query, please review the posts made by dpenabill, who has written extensively about this very subject. I would say that optimism is salutary, but only within the realm of reality. If you will excuse the quote, the great native-born American citizen, Mark Twain once...

Let me offer my two cents (although pennies are no longer acceptable in Canada!) Canadian citizenship is not a right! Perhaps not even a right to a privilege! However, the rights which should be of focus are those regarding the rights of good faith applicants to be treated fairly, consistent...

For those who yet might believe that the precise date is known by some high level governmental functionaries, there is no evidence (known by anyone here) to suggest that such is true. In his role in this matter the Governor in Council is largely symbolic. Only technically could he defy the high...

More so than with the mere opinion, however well-intentioned, of a Call Centre representative, I tend to agree with dpenabill, in his estimation as to a likely date of implementation. His insights are based upon solid research and an admirable knowledge of the subject. In all fairness to the...

I think that the date of implementation of C-24 will be 29 May 2015, the anniversary of (former) Prime Minister John Fitzgerald Kennedy's birth. My method ain't no sillier than some of the convoluted, pachinko quality guesstimations that I have seen in here. I rather suspect that even after...

Excuse me everyone. I have come to affix this sign to the virtual portal of this chat room: "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, AND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE,, DUE TO POPULAR WHIMS AND OCCASIONAL CAPRICES, THe DESIGNATION OF THIS CHAT ROOM IS NO LONGER "EFFECTIVE DATE OF BILL C-24", BUT RATHER "GENERAL TOPICS...

To: dpenabill You wrote: I personally chose to wait an extra two years plus a bit just to make sure if I got RQ it would nonetheless go smoothly. Although I do not always agree with your conclusions, I always find your posts to be informative, well-reasoned, and helpful to those who find...

To: dpenabill Thanks again for the law review thoroughness and quality of your response. Apparently, the conflict is not between the applicant and the CIC, but rather between the CIC and the legislature, or arguably between the CIC and iitself. The "official" Residency Calculator simply is...

Our experience may prove of interest to this community. My wife and I both had received RQs when we applied for new permanent residence cards. Although it took more than a year to process, the cards were finally issued. (The fact that we were demonstrably, model, “squeaky clean” applicants...

Thank you, Oh Canadiana and dpenabill, for your thoughtful insights, and valuable information. I introduced this tangential issue, for those "cuspliccants" who may be victimised by Ye Olde perfunctory Residence Calculator, which has not been calibrated to synchronise with the reality of...

Thank you Oh Canadiana The statutory (official) definition of physical presence, in terms of days, does differ from the way the residency calculator has been programmed. The law, to which you referred me, states: (c) is a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the...

Hello, everyone. I have a situation, which may well be one of first impression, but it represents a crucial distinction. Situation: A p.r. citizenship applicant crosses border from Canada into U.S. at 22h08 on Monday, and returns at 00h12 on Tuesday, and remains in Canada. Although he has...