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    How to receive SMS from home country?

    My wife just arrived in Canada from Russia, she intends to use her bank card to purchase some stuff. However her bank sends her security SMS to confirm that her purchases are genuine, and for some reason, she doesn't receive those text messages but receives local text messages. Has anyone here...
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    What would you do? Very short travel timeframe with PRV/COPR

    Hello everyone, As I mentioned in the Warsaw thread, my wife is waiting to receive her PRV/COPR back from the VFS Visa Application Center in her country. We received a message from the Warsaw VO explaining that she has been granted her PRV and that they will send it back to VFS on November 3...
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    Landing in Montreal, need original CSQ?

    Hello everyone, Will make this as short as I can. I've applied under family class to sponsor my wife to come live with me here in Quebec. It's an outland application, so she currently lives in Russia. I expect that I will receive the CSQ for my spouse shortly, and after that the COPR and all...
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    PRV for wife's parents, anything I should know?

    So at some point this year, my wife will coming to live here in Quebec on a permanent resident visa. Her parents, who are Russian, would like to eventually visit, probably a year or so later, they'd like to come visit me and get to know my family, as so far they've only been able to see each...
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    New visa center opened, is it possible to go there with older application?

    Hello everyone, So hopefully we're getting closer the moment when we'll have to send my wife's passport over to the VFS application centre. The thing is, I went to VFS's website and they apparently opened a new visa center in Novosibirsk, where my wife lives. She unfortunately had to travel to...
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    Does PA need to inform IRCC of travels done during application processing?

    I'm sponsoring my wife in an outland PR application. We plan to meet up in the Czech Republic and to travel in a few surrounding countries in a few months because by then we'll have been apart for over 6 months and the application is gonna take a few more on top of that. Will we have to inform...
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    Typo in sponsor's address, what should I do?

    Hello everyone! I'm the sponsor, I just noticed that my street address has a typo in it on the SA and VO letters that I received a couple of weeks back. I verified the forms that I printed and sent out and my address was written correctly on those, so I assume that it's a data entry mistake...
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    What are the different visa offices for?

    Hello everyone, So I have another question about the process to sponsor my wife to become a permanent resident because I'm curious. It looks like depending on where the applicant is from, the application is sent to a different visa office. From the tracker, it seems like the applications in...
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    Biometrics are in my application, do I still need to give them?

    Hello everyone, So last year my spouse (principal applicant) had her biometrics taken as part of a visitor visa. She didn't get the visa. And now I just received AOR1 and linked the application to my account. Under application status, it displays Biometrics Number: XXX Date of Biometrics...
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    Legalizing Statement in lieu of Certificate of Non-Impediment to Marriage Abroad in Russia

    Hello everyone, I need someone to tell me I'm doing this correctly. I'm a Canadian citizen, I'm headed to Russia in mid-February to register a wedding with my Russian fiance for the summer. In order to do that, I need a few documents including a "Statement in lieu of Certificate of...
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    Do signatures need to be originals? Outland sponsorship

    When filling out a sponsorship PRV, some forms require a signature by the principal applicant. It says: "Provide a written signature next to the printed name in the signature section of the document. For principal applicants under the age of 18, this should be a parent or guardian’s signature."...
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    Spousal sponsorship question about confusing language in documentation

    Hello everyone, My girlfriend and I plan to get married in Russia this summer and over the last few hours, I looked over all the forms that I believe will be necessary for my application. No doubt, looking more in-depth I will find many more things to wonder about, but so far, only two things...
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    This is a nightmare... Visa refused

    Please help :( I'm a Canadian citizen, I've been in a long-distance relationship for a little while now with a woman from Russia. I've been with her and visited Moscow as well as her hometown Novosibirsk over the course of 3 weeks in July and August this year. I got to meet her parents...
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    Proof of relationship?

    I have a friend from Russia who wants to visit Canada over the holidays for a period of 3-4 weeks. The application asks: "You must provide proof of your relationship with your host or family member." We have no proof of relationship as we are not related, and the online form won't send without...
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    Questions regarding Russian citizen visiting Canada

    I'm a Canadian citizen trying to help my friend to come visit Canada and stay with me for a period of up to a month in December/January, and I'm helping her out with the paperwork. Unfortunately there are a few areas of the paperwork that are confusing to me and the visa centers that we have...