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Submitted Mar 20, still in submitted status :(

Submitted my PR card renewal application on Mar 9 and the application is in submitted status. As the PR card will expire at the end of the month, although I've met the RO, am I allowed to travel outside Canada to say US or do I have to wait till I receive the renewed PR card? Also how long will...

Hi. My Indian DL extract that I had got from India expired, it's 8.5 months old and it's only valid for 6 months. How do I get another DL extract because I'm currently in Canada. Or how do I renew my DL extract? What are my options at this point? Please help. Thanks.

I've got a remote job where I'm getting paid in INR(they have an India office address for tax reasons but dont have a physical office anywhere in India). I'm planning to move to Canada to do this job as WFH/working remotely is allowed. I was wondering how this would work in terms of tax. The...

I get a lot of pushback on this forum about adjusting the RO to meet the ground realities in Canada even as more and more people are finding it difficult if not impossible to meet the RO but most of the pushback comes from a mindset of "I went through the same or worse so should you" OR guilty...

If you end up going the H&C route, go with an excellent lawyer. Maybe you did the PR application yourself as there's not much technicality involved but H&C is more complicated as it's totally upto the discretion of the adjudicating officer no matter how convinced you are about your case. A good...

Providing an explanation is not an issue but leaving the PR status upto chance is because you're at the mercy of the immigration officer who will determine whether your reasons are valid or not. You're right in that the focus is on people who are currently in Canada which can be clearly seen...

@armoured The point I'm making is that if the applicant is not able to meet the RO because of Covid then that explanation should suffice specially for PRs depending on 2020 and 2021 for completion of their ROs. Infact it should be a no questions asked checkbox on the PR renewal form by now...

You can renew the PR card even if you pass the expiry date on the card as long as you meet the RO. It's the RO that you can't afford to mess up.

I'm seeing more and more cases of PRs not meeting the RO because of Covid. Covid should be a separate checkbox in the PR renewal form by now. This wasn't like some passing disease for 2 or 3 months, it's been here since 2020 and nobody can predict how long it's going to stay so what is stopping...

If it's not hurting them then it's worth changing because it would massively benefit immigrants, you know the same people who effectively drive the economy. If you want to talk about gains then simply more PR holders would be willing to take the leap instead of staying home and contemplating...

Literally the entire immigration system is based on labour market needs, save the asylum seekers. Any feedback to calibrate immigration would come from how immigrants are faring economically ie their jobs. Canada takes in more immigrants than any other developed country in the world by some...

Could you tell me how it would hurt Canada to reduce the RO from 3.5 years(I'm using this instead of the 2 years because you need 3 years plus a few months to eliminate the RO) to 6-8 months of continuous stay in say a 2 or 3 year period(you pick the period)? I'm not accounting for situations...

Aside from what everyone else has said I would suggest this - Having work experience or a Masters doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is how you tackle multiple rounds, sometimes an entire day of technical interviewing and this can't be learnt either in your Masters or even in your job...

The 2/5 years is good for people who want to take their own time to enter and settle down in Canada after they've landed and picked up their PR cards so this cushion only addresses a part of the issue which is minor compared to the following - The real challenge starts when you actually land in...

Lot of experienced folks are complaining about not getting jobs in their field and it's not just niche fields it's also fields like IT which produces a lot of jobs, it's not just inexperienced guys who are having trouble so when you couple that with this 3 year RO elimination requirement it's...

Sorry but you've made a mistake here. You should've taken that job, that was your entry point into the Canadian job market. You could've used that as a springboard to launch your career in Canada. That's actually how most people get going in Canada. Infact you're one of the lucky ones to get an...

Going to school means taking on further debt without any guarantee of landing a field job and getting back on the minimum wage train. It's a genius system, keeps the economy going for sure.

How did they even come up with this number of 2 out of 5 years or 3 years and a few months to get rid of the RO? Why isn't it 1 out of 2 years or 3 out of 6 years or some other random number? What does this actually address? If you don't know why this number was chosen then your argument is no...

Allow me to indulge you, scylla. Let me first say that I said to remove the RO out of frustration. I can understand why the RO is there but the issue is that it is out of sync with the ground realities in Canada that immigrants have to face. The most common use case is of immigrants who quit...