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Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 27th 2014, 5:00 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,136
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Citizenship application cbsa question

An update on this. Everything came back from the CBSA no problem I'm guessing because we got our ceremony invite for a couple of weeks from now.

That puts the total time from application to...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Apr 16th 2014, 4:41 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,136
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Citizenship application cbsa question

I hope it goes smoothly for you Jaysangha. I have my fingers crossed for our application. When going through the whole immigration process there are scary things that can go wrong at every stage so...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Apr 12th 2014, 3:30 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,136
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Citizenship application cbsa question

Oh yikes.

Well I shall start gathering that info just in case. Thanks for the heads up.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Apr 11th 2014, 4:06 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,136
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Citizenship application cbsa question

Oh yeah, I understand the requirement. We waited until a couple of months after we met the requirement according to the calculator on their site before applying. Since then we have not been out of...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Apr 11th 2014, 3:34 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,136
Posted By Penguin_

Citizenship application cbsa question

My family and I are about 16 months into the process and a few weeks ago got our invites to the test. We studied a lot but we were both pretty nervous and I'm happy to say we passed.

I had an...
Forum: Canada
Apr 21st 2013, 4:23 am
Replies: 11
Views: 4,546
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Citizenship application returned

Yes that seems to be the case that the instructions are generic. I guess there are cases where a passport or PR card is not available so they need different sources of photo ID.

Anyhow I sent the...
Forum: Canada
Apr 4th 2013, 3:58 am
Replies: 11
Views: 4,546
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Citizenship application returned

I think I figured out the answer to the payment. They have returned the proof of payment, but it's up to me whether to resubmit the application or have the fee returned, so that part is easy.

The...
Forum: Canada
Apr 3rd 2013, 3:44 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 4,546
Posted By Penguin_

Citizenship application returned

Hi

I forgot two documents with my citizen application and it has been returned. However it says it has been returned "with your payment information", but in fact the payment info was not returned,...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Feb 12th 2013, 4:23 am
Replies: 3
Views: 765
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Documents for minor in citizenship application

Well yeah, passport and PR card will be in the application already since they are listed as required documents.

It looked to me as though they required two additional pieces of ID.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Feb 9th 2013, 5:04 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 765
Posted By Penguin_

Documents for minor in citizenship application

I'm very close to getting everything together at last for my family citizenship application.

The last thing I'm having trouble with is identification for my son who is 8 and at school in Canada....
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Nov 20th 2012, 9:06 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,582
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Apply for citizenship with missing landing documents

Thanks, I saw that but there's a 6 month wait for documents. I guess I shall search my house again :S
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Nov 19th 2012, 5:23 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,582
Posted By Penguin_

Apply for citizenship with missing landing documents

Regarding below, does anyone have experience applying for citizenship without the documents below? We have only the PR cards, and none of the IMM documents. It says explain why they are absent. Is...
Forum: Canada
Jul 17th 2012, 4:43 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,586
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Help moving UK pension to Canada

Thanks I'll check it out
Forum: Canada
Jul 17th 2012, 2:10 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,586
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Help moving UK pension to Canada

I'm in BC
Forum: Canada
Jul 16th 2012, 1:35 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,586
Posted By Penguin_

Help moving UK pension to Canada

I've got two personal pensions in England and as far as I can tell there's no technical reason I can't move them to Canada and put them in an RRSP here.

However financial institutions are not used...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
May 16th 2012, 11:35 am
Replies: 1
Views: 550
Posted By Penguin_

Citizenship time out of the country

Does anyone know if day trips across the border to the US count as time out of the country for the purposes of the 1095 day rule?

Justin
Forum: Canada
Apr 17th 2012, 3:52 am
Replies: 3
Views: 1,155
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Vancouver Airport Immigration

Hi man

I wouldn't worry, I've always found the immigration people in Vancouver airport to be pretty nice

They are naturally suspicious of the intentions of people that are coming for a long...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jul 12th 2010, 9:11 am
Replies: 800
Views: 144,702
Posted By Penguin_

Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences

For the landing process we needed to bring our passports and some printed documents that CIC sent us.

We did have to send a letter from my employer to CIC with the passports when the application...
Forum: Canniversary
Jul 8th 2010, 8:44 am
Replies: 19
Views: 4,452
Posted By Penguin_

Re: One year in (Metro) Vancouver!

I've been in and out of Canada on a TWP and also in the USA on a H1-B and I found that in about 6 months of paying bills, you will show up in credit files by name, address and possibly birthdate, so...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jul 8th 2010, 4:56 am
Replies: 24
Views: 3,608
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Canceling Permanent residence

You cannot do netfile from abroad; you must be a resident of canada to use netfile (http://www.netfile.gc.ca/rstrctns-eng.html).

You can of course use tax software (online) to prepare the return...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jul 6th 2010, 10:20 am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,052
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Landing

So if anyone is wondering I landed without issue by flag polling at peace arch.

They did ask how much cash I have access to and I told them, and it made no difference to the process.
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jul 6th 2010, 10:04 am
Replies: 800
Views: 144,702
Posted By Penguin_

Re: PNP Timeline - please add your experiences

Not sure of the date we sent the PNP application off but it was a week or so before the we heard from them
05/11/2008 Filed for PNP (BC) Emailed for more info (job offer letter)
07/11/2008 Received...
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 21st 2010, 8:47 am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,052
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Landing

Oh god, I've been looking at that page all morning and I didn't see those two important lines. Thanks!
Forum: Immigration & Citizenship (Canada)
Jun 21st 2010, 8:34 am
Replies: 12
Views: 1,052
Posted By Penguin_

Re: Landing

I don't see any explicit funds requirements for the BC PNP on their website.
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