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    Bringing stuff from home country

    Hello, It has been more than 5 years since I came to Canada as a PR. Last year, I became a citizen. When I was landing, I declared some of my belongings I had left in my home country to be delivered at a later date, but I have not shipped them yet. For how long am I still eligible to bring my...
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    Can I join the Zoom meeting with my family?

    Hello everyone, I have my online citizenship ceremony next week. We have received individual invitations for me, my wife and my kid with unique Zoom login IDs. Can we just login to zoom altogether with my Zoom ID, or do we have to login with three separate devices with our unique IDs? Or maybe...
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    Transit from London Gatwick as a permanent resident

    Hello, I found a very good deal to travel from Toronto to Turkey as a Turkish citizen/Canadian permanent resident. But when I check my eligibility on the UK government website, it showed me kind of a confusing result. https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y/turkey/transit/somewhere_else/yes It...
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    CERB Question

    Hello everyone, My wife was temporarily laid off at the end of March, and her last cheque was issued on April 15. She passed the $5000 income requirement with that last cheque. We applied CERB on April 20th considering that she was eligible as this suggests: "Who had employment and/or...
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    Job for my wife as a newcomer

    Hello everyone, We've been living in Canada for 1,5 years as PRs. During this time, my wife didn't have a chance to work as she was very busy with the settlement and our daughter. Now, as we are all settled and our child will be starting the pre-school day care next month, she can start working...
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    Why did I pay customs for bringing goods?

    Hello everyone, I moved to Canada as a PR on 2018. I had my books from my home country shipped to me several times and never paid any duties or taxes before. For the last package though, DHL asked me to pay $20 for the customs. I don't know why it happened this time. The only difference from the...
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    First tax refund and CCB

    Hello everyone, As a newcomer of 2018, I filed my first tax return this year. It seems I will have around $3000 refund. The government was paying us CCB, GST/HST and Trillium etc, all of those benefits; and I've also been working since the day I landed. So, how will the CRA take back this...
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    Reliability Clearance

    Hello everyone, I'm a PR living in Ontario for one year. I received a very nice conditional job offer, where they need to conduct reliability screening clearance. Since it requires 5 years back security screening, they will have to go back to the records from my home country. What I wanted to...
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    What is my responsbility as the inviter?

    Hello everyone, I am a 6 months permanent resident in Canada. I will invite someone to Canada as a visitor, and prepared an invitation letter. He will be sponsoring himself financially but I have declared legal responsibility for his actions in my letter. So, if he does something that he...
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    Why everyone calls Oakville expensive?

    As far as I can see, you may find a house/condo between the 2000-2500 price range which is similar or even better than surrounding cities such as Mississauga. Am I missing something here or 2000-2500 range is considered as expensive?
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    Proof Of Funds At The Second Landing

    Hello everyone, I plan to go and get PR cards first (first landing), then come back to my home country, finish some business here (around 3 months) and then go to Canada permanently (second landing). I'm just curious if I still need to show my bank statements to the visa officer during the...
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    What happens to NOI if I get a rejection?

    Hello everyone, After I received NOI from Ontario, I also received an ITA. I went with ITA obviously, and I'm currently in AOR state. My question is, if for some reason I get arejection, what happens to my NOI? Will I still be able to use it or will my profile be completely gone?
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    When can the rejection happen if there is an obvious mistake?

    Hello everyone, When do you think a rejection can happen if there is an obvious problem in the application like wrong noc code, not enough funds etc?
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    Urgent Help About WES

    Hello everyone, My ECA result is "Diploma (Two years) and bachelor's degree (four years)" Do I fall into section "Two or more certificates, diplomas, or degrees" ? Thank you.
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    My previous manager left the company

    My manager from one of my previous jobs had left the company. Since I do not know anyone else there anymore, I will get a reference letter from him. I will notarize the letter with him and I already obtained a document from human resources showing my dates and salary during that employment...
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    Any Network Security Specialist here? NOC 2171 or 2281?

    Does anyone apply with the title Network Security Specialist? Here are some of my main duties, I can not decide which NOC my job applies to. 2171 or 2281? "Analyzing the customer needs and creating Denial Of Service attack mitigation systems accordingly Creating and maintaining secure virtual...
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    NOC 2171 - Unrelated diploma

    Hello everyone, I have been working as Computer and System Security Analyst for 5 years and I have Network Administrator skills (NOC 2281) for the previous 5 years. I have bachelor's degree diploma as "Business Administrator" and also have a city planner diploma (2 years). Do you think my...
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    Does OINP application freeze my IELTS?

    Hello, I got NOI on 13th. Our (My and my wife's) IELTS will expire on 13th of July. Now, if we go and apply for Ontario on May, will our IELTS expiration freeze, or will we have to take IELTS again before the IRCC applcation?
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    Confusing situation with POF

    Hello everyone, Because of the political and economical situation in our home countries of me and my wife, we have not kept our savings in a bank until now. We have the required funds as cash though. It is highly possible that I will get an ITA at the next draw (missed the previous one by 2...
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    Should I take IELTS again?

    Hello, My IELTS expires on June and I have not received an ITA yet. Should I take it again already, or it is not necessary for now? Besides waiting in the EE pool, I am following OINP, SINP and NBNP.