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I have never felt a "sting" moving our money that led me to want to consider other services which may have a slightly more idyllic (nothing's perfect) exchange rate but also tack on a flat fee or percentage on top of that...so I decided to do the most scientific test possible. I just went to...

Yeah to be clear, that's what we do too. When I said "no" fees I meant moving money around between CAD and USD never costs us a fee. We do pay the $4/month for the USD account with RBC (and nothing for the Canadian ones due to having lots of products with them). The $48/year ends up being a...

Hi there, what we did first was open the CAD account with RBC, from the states, online. They allow you to start the process before you even land which was super helpful. Then when we landed, I finished opening the CAD account at RBC (and got my debit/ATM card, etc) and opened the USD account...

We received our COPR (landing documents) on November 16th and landed at the Ft. Erie border crossing CBSA office the next day, on November 17th. We are permanent residents of Canada! :D Thank you SO much to everyone on this forum who has helped us over the past several months, and thank you to...

Request for documents received on 27th October Passport copies, photos, and address form sent on 30th October (we're from the USA) Passport copies, photos, and address form delivered on 31st October per Canada post tracker Status updated on the portal on 14th November Trackling number on return...

Request for documents received on 27th October Passport copies, photos, and address form sent on 30th October (we're from the USA) Passport copies, photos, and address form delivered on 31st October per Canada post tracker Status updated on the portal on 14th November Tracker on return envelope...

Well we've excitedly hit this point in our PR process, so I guess it's time to join the thread: Request for documents received on 27th October Passport copies, photos, and address form sent on 30th October (we're from the USA) Passport copies, photos, and address form delivered on 31st October...

I looked at tons of options, including TD and Scotiabank and services like Transferwise. I used Transferwise a bit and I sent some international wires from my bank in the USA when I was initially figuring some things out, but what I eventually landed on was using RBC. The way I have things set...

Just received official word from our case manager... "For this stage, you do not have the option of having the documents processed in person" ...so we sent in everything to Ottawa by Canada Post as instructed. Now I guess we wait some more!

I don't know for sure about Toronto, but we're right over in the Halton region and we were able to register our child for kindergarten no problem, even though we currently only have "visitor" status (our PR is almost done). We talked to the school district's "Welcome Centre" that handles all...

Does this help? "You don’t lose your permanent resident status when your PR card expires. You can only lose your status if you go through an official process...even if you don't meet the residency obligation, you are still a PR until an official decision is made on your status." source...

My wife, myself, and our two young kids are all U.S. citizens who are moving to Canada and we've just gotten to the part of our PR process where we've received the official communication telling us that our application process is "almost complete" and it's time to provide photocopies of our U.S...