Hello,

I am going to apply to immigrate to Canada under the skilled worker category. I am staying in the USA as a foreign student with F1 visa. Does it matter to keep a legal status in the US before and during the time of assessing my application? If someone was legal in the USA a minimum of 1 year then has to submit a new simplified application through his origin country or the old application through Buffalo office? Thanks for response.

Hi,

I think if you check the CIC website, you have to submit to the visa office responsible for the region where you last lived for 2 years.

So, if you've lived in London 20 years and the USA 1 year, you have to apply to London and wait 5 years.

I'm not sure you can submit through Buffalo in any case. But this is the wrong forum for these detailed immigration questions: repost on the parallel immigration forum.

K.

If you are not going to have legal status in the US for the whole protracted drawn out application proceedure, then I would not apply through the Buffallo consulate. But asking in the immigration area would be a good idea!

Hi

To apply outside your country of residence, you must have been ADMITTED for 1 year.

Don't you mean "outside your country of nationality"

No you don't.

Erm, from www.cic.gc.ca:


Determine which Canadian visa office is responsible for:

the country in which you are residing, provided you have been lawfully admitted to that country for at least one year; or
your country of nationality.

Exactly. If you're British and are admitted to the US for at least 1 year, you can apply to London OR Buffalo. Your choice.

The statement you made earlier in the thread was not correct.

Indeed, I was wrong, it was one year rather than two. I had two in my mind from somewhere....