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Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 30th 2023, 11:41 am
Replies: 6
Views: 984
Posted By crofty82

Re: PR Card Renewal - Online Application?

You can renew a PR card online, I did that very thing last year:

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/new-immigrants/pr-card/apply-renew-replace.html
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 29th 2023, 11:32 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 863
Posted By crofty82

Re: PR Cards Received!!! Tips for Next Steps?

It's no issue, we did the same thing, but be aware that you can't apply for citizenship until you've spent 1095 days out of the previous 5 years physically in Canada as a PR.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 26th 2023, 2:48 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 638
Posted By crofty82

Re: Mistake on citizenship application

You can't edit an application after you've signed it, even if you haven't submitted it. I could potentially start another one now but I think it's safer and cleaner to let the existing ones expire...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 25th 2023, 11:52 am
Replies: 4
Views: 638
Posted By crofty82

Re: Mistake on citizenship application

Thanks, that was my thought too. I haven't received a reply from IRCC (shocker) so I'm going to let the applications expire then redo them.

Kicking myself that I was so organized in doing them...
Forum: The Maple Leaf
Aug 20th 2023, 1:34 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 8,463
Posted By crofty82

Re: What happened to this place?

The misinformation astounds me as well. I'd be fascinated to know how the people to whom the bad advice was given fared afterwards. You never see follow up posts saying "Thanks a lot, because of the...
Forum: Canniversary
Aug 20th 2023, 12:44 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 2,082
Posted By crofty82

Re: 3 years

As long as you spend 730 days in Canada in every rolling 5-year period, you meet the residency obligation..
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 20th 2023, 12:38 pm
Replies: 3
ECA
Views: 616
Posted By crofty82

Re: ECA

Can only comment on WES as that's who we used in 2018. The process was slow but efficient, with a tracker on their website so you could at least log in and see the status of your application.

We...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 19th 2023, 1:29 am
Replies: 4
Views: 638
Posted By crofty82

Mistake on citizenship application

I just completed and signed my citizenship application online, and accidentally put my wife's UCI number on it instead of mine. I signed it so it's no longer editable even though I haven't submitted...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 17th 2023, 10:53 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,635
Posted By crofty82

Re: Citizenship - Inviting Co-applicant

Yes, actually I just did yesterday. The person you invited creates their account, then when they log in, before clicking on their application there's a button called "My Actions."

Click on that...
Forum: Canniversary
Aug 13th 2023, 3:04 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 726
Posted By crofty82

3 Years in The Hammer

July 2023 marked three years since we moved from Lancashire, England to Hamilton, Ontario. I missed posting on hear for our 2nd anniversary due to life getting in the way. I come back here to BE as...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jul 17th 2023, 9:26 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,635
Posted By crofty82

Re: Citizenship - Inviting Co-applicant

Yes I understand that each person has to complete their own application, but I invited my wife and she's filled out her application but it still just says "Invitation Sent" rather than "In Progress."...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jul 16th 2023, 4:38 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,635
Posted By crofty82

Citizenship - Inviting Co-applicant

We're about to apply for citizenship and I created an account on the application website then invited my wife as a co-applicant. She received the email inviting her to accept the invitation, but when...
Forum: Canada
Mar 7th 2023, 4:37 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 422
Posted By crofty82

Travel insurance with pre-existing conditions

I live I Canada with PR and my dad is coming out from the UK to visit me for the first time in the summer. He's now 73 and had a heart attack when he was 51, and bypass surgery in 2009.
...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 18th 2022, 4:36 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 684
Posted By crofty82

Re: Brother wants to apply for IEC

Thanks so much!
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Aug 18th 2022, 3:57 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 684
Posted By crofty82

Brother wants to apply for IEC

I live in Canada with PR and my brother back in England wants to try working out here for a year or two. I emigrated under a different stream so never went through that particular application; but I...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 17th 2022, 7:30 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 628
Posted By crofty82

Re: Checking on application PR Card replacement

Thank you. Gives me hope that (if they don't lose it) our application will take the advertised 60 days.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 17th 2022, 6:15 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 628
Posted By crofty82

Re: Checking on application PR Card replacement

Thanks, pretty consistent from IRCC then. Having not had to deal with them for 3 years since we became PR, one had forgotten just how glacial their pace of updating inline portals is.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 17th 2022, 5:26 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 628
Posted By crofty82

Checking on application PR Card replacement

To my shame and extreme irritation, I lost my PR card recently. I mailed off the application for a replacement and paid the fee at the end of May and can see from the tracking # that it was received...
Forum: Canada
Apr 11th 2022, 5:09 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 1,029
Posted By crofty82

Non residents of Canada - how much stuff can they bring across the border?

A colleague told me that non-residents of Canada who cross from Canada into the US and back are not subject to the 24 / 48h restrictions over how much goods, alcohol etc. they can bring back into...
Forum: Canniversary
Jul 27th 2021, 8:28 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 2,960
Posted By crofty82

Re: 1 year in Hamilton

The Mountain and Stoney Creek, which are the two places we've lived since being here are lovely. Parts of downtown are still decidedly sketchy but equally parts of it are gentrified and therefore...
Forum: Canniversary
Jul 27th 2021, 1:24 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 2,960
Posted By crofty82

1 year in Hamilton

A year ago today we touched down at Pearson just after the end of the first wave of Covid-19. The move had been two and a half years in the planning and was delayed from April to July 2020 because of...
Forum: Canada
Jul 9th 2021, 1:16 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 2,586
Posted By crofty82

Re: International Removals from UK

A bit late but we used Whites to move from the UK to Ontario last year and I found them professional, helpful reasonably priced. They serve the entire UK I believe.
Forum: Canada
Jul 9th 2021, 12:59 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 2,867
Posted By crofty82

Re: New UK Travel Rules

There's a glimmer of hope today for those fully vaccinated expats hoping for a trip back to the UK, Grant Shapps has agreed to look at it and will make an announcement in a couple of weeks:
...
Forum: Canada
Jul 8th 2021, 5:00 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 2,867
Posted By crofty82

Re: New UK Travel Rules

There's a petition as well

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/585438
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