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June 17 - Application delivered (H4, 3 dependents in one package) June 17 to Jul 15 - Blackhole (No status, no updates) Jul 15 - Purolator tracking activated first, separately for each dependent. Package "picked up". But DS 160 status was still showing "No Status" all morning. Application then...

Options, futures, commodities, currencies - all allowed. MFs - Sells allowed. MF and ADR buys are restricted.

Schwab does not. They have a non-compete with Canada, effectively looking at max restrictions with them Fidelity will allow you to trade most instruments (except mutual funds, which you can retain but not trade). YMMV based on the rep you get, but if you know their rules, you should be able to...

This is mostly correct. Fidelity does not allow purchase of new mutual funds, but will allow you to keep any existing MF investments in your portfolio. Certain leveraged stocks, options and ADRs may also be restricted.

Mind boggling amounts of ignorance on this thread. The question is not - which US brokers allow me to maintain accounts with canadian address. The question is - which US brokers allow me to maintain an account with canadian tax residency. Being specific helps resolve confusion. It is not about...

Received ready for visa and passport submission request last week. AOR Jan 31, PNP outland, US resident Indian. @legalfalcon @caipsnotes @andy108 and others >>> medicals expire in December. I will submit my passports today. How much time will they give me to land?

There is a lot of GCMS misinformation online. Disturbing tendency to recommend or apply for GCMS notes first without being patient. This post will explain need to pause and think a hundred times. First critical question: why is GCMS needed? You can get sufficient status information through...

EE PNP Outland (Ontario) Full family included (couple + 3 kids) AOR - 1/31 Country of residence - US, birth country - India No ghost updates, portal still says awaiting fingerprints Verified status on phone VO - Sydney Eligibility, Criminality, Security - Completed Per agent - waiting for...

Results: Rounds of invitations Ministerial Instructions respecting invitations to apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system #152 – June 11, 2020 Canadian Experience Class See full text of Ministerial Instruction Number of invitations issued: 3,559Footnote* Rank required to be...

Get into the pool with spouse non-accompanying, get the ITA, wait for spouse IELTS, and update PR application to spouse accompanying if the new score > your current score?

OINP exhausted its 2019 quota around the same time as the previous EE draw. They now have an additional 700 nominations and are handing them out like Halloween candy. Other provinces are rushing to fill their quotas before the Christmas break. If 3200 ITAs continue, CRS may not go down too much...

OINP running out of gas is good news for general EE FSW candidates but is terrible for folks who received an NOI and are waiting for a nomination. More so for HCP stream. There are only 600 nominations left in this category. A lot of people from Aug 1 are yet to receive nominations (per the...

This. Plus every international MS student in the US and their dog are applying through EE.

I mention this in every thread and here we go again. CRS is on an unstoppable path up. It is not because of fake profiles, not because of any CIC conspiracy, or any other theory. May isn't the reason either. Its just a lot of people in the pool + other streams of entry (PNPs linked with EE)...

One of my friends just received an ITA. CRS 466. But doesn't look like the draw is announced yet on the EE website. Possible?

LOL. This is what you had mentioned.

Lets take this offline, but a couple of quick points. 1. Having family supports much quicker societal integration. There's economic value there. Plus, it creates an easier transition for the applicant. Immigration is far harder and economic value for the country harder to realize if a new person...

Again, this is uninformed. I am not suggesting CRS in current form is designed in an ideal fashion. But its reasonable, objective, and works fairly in good majority of the cases. This is the system right now, and we know that adjustments to CRS scoring algorithm does happen. Finally, re: 37...

Everyone here talking blindly about ITAs (numbers, trends) and potential implication on immigration targets come across as hugely uninformed and completely unaware of how organizations work. Remember that Canadian immigration programs have a larger mandate to achieve - to attract and retain the...

Part of the problem is that scores below 400 are unreliable. A majority of those profiles are people waiting to complete their profiles - either waiting on a degree/school completion, IELTS etc. As and when the profiles get updated, those scores will shoot up.