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While applying for permanent residency application, Principal applicant is responsible to maintain proof of funds or to prove exemption to fund requirement. If your spouse is accompanying with you, you can count money you have together in a joint account. You may be able to count money in an account under your spouse name only, but you must prove that you have access to the money. Only then it would be considered as a eligible proof of funds under your application.
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Yes. You are right. You do not need permission by mother anymore. Once the child reaches the age of consent, permission of other parents is not required while sponsoring child for permanent resident application Canada. You can sponsor up to the age of 22, provided the child was examined on your PR application. As per your research, IMM 5604 is also no more applicable.
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Yes. It is true that officer at the port of entry used to stamp the arrival dates on the passport of the permanent residents. These days officers stopped doing stamping on the passports instead they scan the passport. They used to enter information manually but now everything is scanned. Your arrival dates automatically get registered in the system. Now, on PR card renewals, you will get an additional sheet which will help you to keep record of your entries and exit from Canada. IRCC advise you to enter dates in that sheet while traveling so that you can keep record of dates which is required on renewal of PR card.
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For applying EE/PNP, It would be a NO because he will not be eligible to apply as he has no status. Moreover, some work experience in Canada will not be counted and result in less CRS scores.
For spousal sponsorship, he can be sponsored if he has entered Canada legally and is not criminally inadmissible.
For study permit applications, he can apply but he will be refused. In this way, he will be telling CBSA where to get him and issue him deportation orders.
Whenever someone violates the Canadian Immigration Laws in the past should never expect to get a temporary status in Canada again. Yes, the only remedy is spousal sponsorships which may ask for marriage genuineness proofs. It should always work as long as the relationship is genuine. However, the very right way is to leave Canada immediately and save their money to re-established in home country and apply again after some years. This is not an easy option.
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First of all, you need to report to the local police about this whole matter. File a complaint regarding your stolen PR card by your husband. Take proof of this report from the police station in India. After that, you should apply for PRTD to travel to Canada. PRTD is permanent resident travel document, which enables you to enter Canada in case of expired or no PR card card. Once you enter Canada, you can report of police of your local area in Canada as well. You can then apply for a new PR card with all your other Canadian IDs and proof of stolen report. You can further read about how to apply for renewal of PR card at following link:
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If you already did Webform, try to contact IRCC call centre agent, and just be patient keep on trying to dial number until you will be put in the queue. You can also try web form again after 15 days and request to obtain the original study permit sent along with amendment application. There is nothing much you can do about it at the moment.
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It is totally opposite of what you’ve proposed.
Travel to country of nationality/residence does not need to be reported. All
the other travel to any countries is required to declare in travel history. In my opinion, you have to list your detailed travel history for your express entry profile even if it is one day. -
Maternity leave does not need to be communicated to IRCC at all, however leave will not be counted in PR application work requirements. You should not count maternity leave months towards your work experience in Canada. Extending your maternity leave will not effect your work permit.
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If you were issued work or study permits while your refugee claim and/or Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA) was being assessed, these documents did not grant you Temporary Resident status. You cannot use this period of time in your physical presence calculation.
If you are claiming time as a Protected Person, the only time allowed is the time from when you received a positive Protected Person decision on your refugee claim or PRRA application until the day before you became a permanent resident. Therefore, in your case the date is November 15.
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For USA, ATIP process is known as FOIA which is Freedom of Information Act. You can file your request with Department of State Online via following link:
https://foia.state.gov/Request/Submit.aspx#
If you need to request information which includes a personal record, You must do it via following link:
https://foia.state.gov/Request/Visa.aspxClick on Visa Records Request.
You can find more information you can find on FOIA web page.
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As per the latest guidelines, IRCC has changed the processing time for PR card renewals from 287 days to 138 days on July 28, 2020. Generally, I can say PR card renewals will take approximately 4 months to process.
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You need to pay for the courier service for BLS Brampton. There will be no update on online status unless they dispatch the PCC document. I would say that you should pay the amount of $30 for Purolator courier service at BLS online payment portal. These days pickup services at BLS are suspended. Therefore, you need to pay and get your PCC in mail. The approximate time for PCC processing is six weeks.
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No. It is not mandatory to change or add spouse name on Indian passport while applying for spousal sponsorship application. You can provide IRCC with alternative documents to prove your marital relationship. You can submit:
Letters, printed text messages, emails, social media conversations, other documents proof of contact
Proof of visits to each other, airline tickets, passport pages, boarding pass
Proof of joint property, bank account, Joint utility accounts, life insurance, vehicle insurance
Copies of government issued documents showing same residential information
Other jointly held accounts such as phone bills, credit card statements, tax forms etc.
For further information read checklist IMM 5533 on IRCC website.
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There is no age limit to study in Canada. Success of approval of a study permit application depends on the eligibility factors of the applicant, college requirements, and logical planning of the application. The application should be justifying all the concerns of the officer. If she gets study from Canada and then one year of work experience, she will definitely be benefitted from it.
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You can not apply for super visa from inside Canada. Your parents need to apply from visa office outside Canada. They can extend their stay in Canada for more time but they can not get it changed to super visa. You can also extend their stay in Canada for one year by providing the documents such as LICO income for inviters and medical insurance policy for parents for one year. This will give them equal time to spend in Canada as parents with super visa get normally.
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Your brother should get 15 points for his completed full-time studies in Canada. Can you please check the questions again? The question “Is English education was 50% or more part of the study?” If you choose yes to that question, your study will not be qualifying for 15 points. You need to choose no to that question. That will allow Canadian study to be taken into account and 15 points will be grated to him.
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Yes. You can withdraw your spouse from PR application. You are obliged to include your wife in your application. If you are legally separating from you wife, you have to provide the documents showing your separation. This way you can remove your wife from your application. Your daughter is already 20 years old which is above the age of consent. Therefore, sponsoring her is not bind to mother’s willingness. As long as your daughter meets the eligibility requirements, you can continue her in your application as a dependent child.
Your second question about getting married is totally different from this scenario. I can only say that you are allowed to get married upon your divorce becomes effective.
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You will use name which is mentioned on your passport. If there is no name in surname column of passport, then put your full given name in the Family name section of express entry profile.
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Dear Harjap
Your application for PGWP has already been approved. Your work permit document must be generated at the same time your application status was updated on the online account. It is just you have not received it yet through mail. PGWP can not be extended unless you have passport of less validity than term of PGWP. You can contact IRCC to make changes on the work permit by IRCC web form and by sending a paper application to amend work permit. You must be able to provide proper documentation which included confirmation of graduation/completion letters for both one year programs and official transcripts. Hopefully, your request to make changes in the work permit will be accepted. A new work permit will be issued with validity of three years. Do not apply for a new application of PGWP at the moment.
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Your sister need both valid study permit and valid co-op work permit to do co-op work placement for her final semester. As co-op is a part of her professional study program. She must have valid study permit. She should have applied both study permit and co-op work permit together in the application.
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Yes. You can apply for your husband’s spousal open work permit. Your work will be counted as full-time because it fulfills the requirement for 30 hours a week. You need to provide your letter of employment and recent four pay stubs.
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Baljit
You can get open work permit only if you are eligible for one of these:
– are an international student who graduated from a designated learning institution and are eligible for the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program
– are a student who’s no longer able to meet the costs of your studies (destitute student)
– have an employer-specific work permit and are being abused or at risk of being abused in relation to your job in Canada
– applied for permanent residence in Canada
– are a dependent family member of someone who applied for permanent residence
– are the spouse or common-law partner of a skilled worker or international student
– are the spouse or common-law partner of an applicant of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program
– are a refugee, refugee claimant, protected person or their family member
– are under an unenforceable removal order
– are a temporary resident permit holder
– are a young worker participating in special programs
If you do not have above mentioned eligibilities, you can apply for employer specific work permit. Your employer must get a positive Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) before you submit your application.
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The duration of PGWP depends on the length of your study program. For example:
If your program was less than 8 months: you are not eligible for PGWP
If your program was more than 8 months but less than 2 years: You may get PGWP that is valid for same length of your study program.
If your program was of 2 years or more: you may get PGWP that is valid for three years
You can read detailed information at link given below:
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Your cousin cannot extend his study permit while outside Canada. He has only one option to apply for a new application from outside Canada for study permit. This will be processed same as an initial study permit application. For this, he needs to meet all the requirement for a new study permit. You can read about it at following link:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/study-permit.html
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Yes. You can work in Canada even if your spouse decides to leave Canada. Work permits are valid until the day they expire. You can continue working regardless of where your spouse is, however, you would not be able to get an extension of your work permit unless your spouse gets one. Otherwise you become eligible for your own status in Canada. There are very less chances that it could be questioned on next application why your spouse left and you stayed behind.
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If you have received a procedural fairness letter that means IRCC has already started processing of your application. Most likely they doubt on information given by you and may be ready to refuse your application. At this point, withdrawal of application creates more doubt. It is not recommended to take your application back. They will refuse it on the basis of lack of providing sufficient documentation.
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No. You do not need to pay for your dependent child. You have to include him in your application as non-accompanying because he is a Canadian citizen. He can not be accompanying in your PR application. Once you correct your dependent option, that fee of $225 will eliminate automatically.
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In this scenario, international students who have their study permit approved for May and June 2020 intake will not be affected for their PGWP eligibility. Their studies won’t be affected. It is allowed that they can start their studies online and they can compete up to 50% of their studies online outside Canada if they are not able to travel sooner due to covid-19 affects.
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There would be a problem with her expiring passport and she may be denied to get entry into Canada at the port of entry. The problem is her expiring passport. She may be denied entry into Canada at a POE or may be given a very short allowed stay and she has to leave Canada before the expiry of her passport.
You should get her passport renewed before travelling to Canada. She can use her current passport for purpose of temporary residence visa because It will be still valid in November 2020. A valid visa inside an expired document is considered valid. Make sure she has both the old passport with valid TRV on it and the new passport while travelling to Canada.
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You have received Canadian equivalency of a college-level certificate (1 Year) and completion go two college-level certificates (one semester). It seems your second credential is incomplete and it is just classified as 1 semester program. You will select one-year program at a university, college from the drop down options.
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It is not possible. Your friend is absolutely correct. Only your spouse can be your co-signer. Thats means you and your spouse can count your income together towards MNI. You can not add your siblings or any other person’s income to sponsor your parents.
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Hello Baljit
You can stay in Canada till the date you have work permit issued or you have not issued a removal order. Your husband has open work permit, he can continue working in Canada as long as he has work permit valid. If you both qualify for Canadian Experience Class in terms of Canadian Employment, language proficiency, Education, and age, you can apply for EE-CEC in Canada. Once you get ITA and submitted online application, you can extend and/or change the conditions of work permit. You will become eligible to apply for bridge work permit as your application of permanent residency is in process.
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Yes. He has to declare his dual intent because he has made express entry profile. When he is applying for study permit, his profile is already there. Visas for UK and USA will definitely prove his credibility and also count for travel history.
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You can apply study permit application while visiting Canada. But you application will be taken an outside Canada applicant. You need to have IELTS academic band scores of at least 6.5 in all the modules. You have to first secure a letter of acceptance from a designated learning institution in Canada. Another requirement is you must have sufficient funds to support your study in Canada. You can apply after fulfilling all these requirements by online application.
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For skilled trades, there are major group which are as follow:
- Major Group 72, industrial, electrical and construction trades
- Major Group 73, maintenance and equipment operation trades
- Major Group 82, supervisors and technical jobs in natural resources, agriculture and related production
- Major Group 92, processing, manufacturing and utilities supervisors and central control operators
- Minor Group 632, chefs and cooks
- Minor Group 633, butchers and bakers
The major NOC groups are subdivided into different occupations, and they are all skill type B.
You can check the other eligibility criteria at link given below:
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Hello Raman
Your friend can apply for husband and kids when she will get approval for her study permit application. She needs to get enrolled to her Canadian designated learning institution. I would say after completion of her first semester of study, she can invite her husband on spousal open work permit under international mobility program. Their kids can also get visitor visa or study permit to Canada as they are totally dependent on her and her husband.
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There is extension to restore the temporary status from 90 days to till December 31, 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, temporary residents who remained in Canada have been encouraged to renew their work or study permits to maintain their legal status in Canada.
As per IRCC
‘Former workers, students and visitors whose status expired after January 30, 2020, and who remained in Canada will now have until December 31, 2020, to apply to restore their status, provided they meet the requirements for the type of status and authorization they are applying to restore.’
The public policy also allows former work-permit holders applying for an employer-specific work permit to work while a decision on their restoration application is pending.
In your case, you can also work.
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In order to become eligible for Home Child Care Provider pilot, an applicant must have obtained work experience in NOC 4411. That means, your work experience as an Early Childhood Educator/Instructor would not be counted because ECE comes under NOC 4214. In the same way, job offer for this position will not be beneficial for home child care provider pilot.
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You can not sponsor your fiancee for permanent resident application. You can invite her on visitor visa to Canada. You can sponsor certain relatives to come to Canada if you’re at least 18 years old and a:
Canadian citizen
permanent resident
person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act
You can only sponsor your spouse, common-law partner, dependent child, parents / grandparents, adopted child, orphaned child. Apart from that you can sponsor your only relative if you are a lonely Canadian living in Canada.
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Yes. You can apply for your PGWP from outside Canada. If you are outside Canada for more than six months than you need to go through medical exam again. There would be same document requirement for this application even if it is outside Canada: Passport, digital photo, letter of study completion/confirmation of graduation letter, official transcripts, valid study permit etc.
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You can extend your PGWP with your new passport only if
-you were eligible for a PGWP but you didn’t get the full length because your passport was going to expire
-you are a express entry applicant and your application of PR in process (provides option of bridging work permit)
The right way is to apply for a paper application to CPC-Edmonton if you’re extending or changing the conditions on your PGWP. This would be indicated in a remark on your initial PGWP. For more information, click the link given below:
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If you are working in New Brunswick on a NOC O, A, or B. Once you have one year of work experience you will become eligible to apply for PNP application with employer support. This application will be non express entry paper application. Usually the processing time is 1.5 years since the approval of PNP. This application is solely based on paper application. You can not do it in six months Online application.
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Hello
For a foreign skilled worker to become eligible for federal skilled worker program, there are various factors involved. Your sister needs to evaluate her study as per Canadian equivalency. Hopefully, she will get master degree in her ECA report. One year of work experience and CLB level of 7 is the minimum requirement. Currently, the cut-off of CRS for FSWP is 478 in the recent draw. Your sister needs to achieve maximum level of IELTS band scores to meet current cut off. You can click the link given below and calculate her CRS:
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp
For further information please visit our website: crownimmigration.com & contact our office.
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She needs to provide minor travelling alone consent form along with an affidavit of permission signed by both parents. Also, these documents should be accompanied by Identity cards of both parents. Moreover, when child is minor, parents usually needs to prove that they will support their child financially.
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He can apply for extension of his stay in Canada as a visitor instead of worker. He can only apply for extension of work permit if he has a positive LMIA, CAQ if he wants to work in Quebec, he has applied for his any permanent application, he is eligible for applying work permit under international mobility. Another way out is only if he comes under an LMIA exempted candidate which is in case of Intra-company transfers or NAFTA.
Therefore, if he is being delayed in getting a job offer then applying for visitor record is advisable.
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As per the public Policy released by IRCC, international students who have approved study permit applications outside Canada, and those who are going though online study programs, can count this time towards the PGWP eligible time period after the completion of their study. This will benefit the international students and save them from wasting their time while they are in their country of residence.
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Yes. IRCC has extended the restoration time limit which is usually 90 days after the expiry of status. Due to covid-19 pandemic affects, IRCC now has given the time limit till December 30, 2020 for applicants who fall under restoration period after January 30, 2020. This extension is for:
– former workers, students and visitors whose status expired
– former work-permit holders
You can find detailed information on this public policy by clicking following link:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/restoration-extension.html
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Yes. There are new guidelines for biometrics in Canada according to public policy from IRCC issued on July 14, 2020. The temporary resident applicants are exempted from the biometrics for all their ongoing application and new applications until further notice. They are exempted if they have applied:
- to extend your stay as a student, worker or visitor
- to restore your status as a student, worker or visitor
- for a work or study permit
- for a visitor visa
- for a temporary resident permit
Biometrics collection services will resume at a later date. You can find detailed information at following link:
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Hello Parminder
Your work experience will count for CEC, no matters where the actual work is being done; in a classroom, in an office, and/or online. If you are:
– working for a Canadian company
– paid in Canada on a payroll
– working full time under skill level NOC 0/A/B occupation
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She may become eligible to apply under federal skilled worker program with her work experience of barber and hairstylist. This occupation falls under the NOC code 6341 skill level B. Apart from work experience, she needs to fulfil the language proficiency, age, and educational requirements as well. You can read about hairstylists and barbers NOC in the link given below:
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There is no way that you can omit any travel history dates while calculating your physical presence. You have to fill every single entry and exit in the physical presence calculator in order to get your citizenship application accepted. You can first make a rough list of days you spent out of Canada and then enter them in physical presence calculator. To make it more easier, you should take assistance from an immigration professional.
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He can easily find out if he has given biometrics before by using online tool provided on IRCC website. Click the link below:
https://onlineservices-servicesenligne.cic.gc.ca/extapp/bioStatusQuery
If he has given biometrics before for any temporary resident application, then those biometrics will be valid for 10 years and he can use them for this application as well.
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Hello Satwinder
The answer depends on the fact that are you getting any CRS score benefit from your spouse’s foreign education? If no, then you can skip ECA for him. If yes, ECA for his education is must. Below you can see when an ECA is required:
– If you completed your education outside Canada, you need an educational assessment to:
be eligible as the principal applicant for Federal Skilled Workers Program (Express Entry), or
earn points for education you got outside Canada
– You can also earn points for your spouse or common-law partner’s education, if they are coming with you to Canada.
You do not need an assessment for a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate.
More information: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/documents/education-assessed/who.html
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When an applicant submits an e-APR to IRCC, the information in their application is locked, and their CRS score at the time of their application is recorded in GCMS. In simple words, when you submit your application after the ITA received, your CRS score get locked at that time. After that, you become unaffected to the birthdays, ECA, IELTS dates etc. You can read more about it by clicking following link:
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If you do not have birth certificate, you can apply for one now. If your birth is registered, you will be issued with a birth certificate. You may also get birth certificate with late registration date. If there is no record of your birth, you may apply and get a ‘Not Found Certificate’ for your birth record.
Apart from this, you can also use certificate of Matriculation & an Affidavit by the applicant in lieu of birth certificate.
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There are no legal restrictions preventing students from working on-campus more than 20 hours a week as compared to work the maximum 20 hours per week off-campus. You can work more than 20 hours a week if you are working on-campus. Your study permit has conditions that you may accept employment on-campus and 0ff-campus.
If you are eligible to work off-campus, you can work up to 20 hours per week while classes are in session. During scheduled breaks, like the summer or winter holidays and spring break, you’re allowed to work more than 20 hours. You must be a full-time student both before and after the break to work full-time.
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It is true that an international student in Canada can not work more than 20 hours off-campus. When students do not comply with the work hours conditions of their study permit, they face problems at the time of post-graduation work permit.
In your scenario, you are working 20 hours off-campus in Canada which is completely authorized that means you are working as per allowed hours. The 30 hours work which you are doing on weekends in USA has no impact on your immigration status in Canada. It is because the work you are doing in USA does not put any impact on the Canadian work force and labour market.
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You need to maintain legal status in Canada at all the times. If your work permit is about to expire and you cannot return home due to travel restrictions, you need to apply to stay as a visitor. You need to apply for this status before your work permit expires.
Once you have submitted an application to change your status to “visitor”, you will have what is called implied status. This will allow you to continue to stay in Canada as a visitor until a decision is made on your application. You will not be able to work during this time unless you have the proper authorization.
In case your existing work permit get expired, you may apply to restore your status, but you need to apply within 90 days of the expiration date of your work permit.
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Due to ongoing concerns related to COVID-19, IRCC is taking preventative measures which results in delay in retrieving the records other than electronic records. You can still get electronic notes within in normal 30 days extension time. In order to get the complete documentation i.e. application, supporting documents, correspondences sent to and from IRCC, an extension of 365 days beyond the normal 30 days limit is required. You need to wait for this long processing time for your request.
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You can legally work in Canada because you have a valid work permit. Work permits are valid from the date they are issued to the date they expire, unless there is a removal order that can be executed.
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The draw came out on July 08, 2020, in which IRCC has resumed all-program Express Entry draws. Mainly this draw issued invitations to apply to Federal Skilled Worker Program candidates. The deadline to apply for the e-apr is 90 days for this draw instead of normal 60 days.
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There are various language test options which are being accepted by designated learning institutions of Canada. The Duolingo English Test is accepted by almost 140 Canadian post-secondary institutions. It can be completed in just 1 hour and results are available in 2 days. Apart from Duolingo, there is also IELTS indicator test. These English tests approved by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for students that want to fast-track their study permit application.
Unfortunately, to apply for permanent residence application, this fast track online test is not acceptable. You can go for computer based IELTS general test which is provided by IDP, British Council, and Cambridge Assessment English.
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There is no need to worry about deadline to apply for PGWP. I understand that you need to apply for verification of status (VOS), and send your original study permit document with application. You cannot apply both PGWP and VOS together, because they both get processed at different centres. You can simply go for applying PGWP application online and use the scanned copy of this study permit and explain about the correction issue. Meanwhile, you can also apply for VOS as a separate paper application.
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Yes. She is eligible to sponsor her husband for permanent residency in Canada. Taking the government’s emergency help plan ‘CERB’ does not make her ineligible to sponsor her husband. CERB income will be counted towards your income to sponsor your family members. Moreover, your cousin has a job which is just temporarily interrupted by coronavirus pandemic situation. She can use her recent year’s income return and pay stubs to prove her financial ability to support her husband.
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Could you please tell me about the previous name change done by your cousin? Was it a legal name change or she started using her husband’s name without any formal name change process?
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Hello Jagroop
There is no specific income requirement for sponsoring a spouse in Canada. You can still sponsor your wife even if you do not have any income from your new company at the moment. You have filed your income tax for the last year 2019 which shows your are financially established in Canada. You can use your company’s articles of registration to prove that you are currently working in Canada and able to financially support your spouse.
In spousal sponsorship application, the spouse who is sponsoring signs the undertaking for the applicant and takes responsibility for three years. The sponsor has to show that he can support the person he is sponsoring and provides the proof of income if he is employed in Canada.
If a sponsor is not working then he has to provide the other documentation showing that he can support his/her spouse financially. This must include a detailed explanation of how he plans to support himself/herself and his/her spouse. You can use bank savings as a proof of support. Also, you can ask letter(s) of support from your parents if you are un-employed.
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There is no need to worry about expiration of your PR card as you have no plans of traveling outside Canada. You will still hold a secured permanent resident status in Canada even if your PR card expires. PR card is required for traveling especially to re-enter Canada on a commercial vehicle. Also, you have applied for a Canadian citizenship application, an expired PR card will affect its processing or decision process. It is good that you applied for a PR card renewal before its expiry date. On June 30, 2020, IRCC has updated the processing time for PR card renewal to 287 days which is longer than the usual processing times. Probably, you will get your citizenship application approved by the time you get your PR card renewed. There is nothing to worry and to do anything about your permanent resident status in Canada.
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No. You do not need certificate from the province of Quebec to apply Post-graduation work permit. You should:
1. have completed a program of study conferring a degree, diploma, or certificate
2. have studied full-time for at least eight months in a university, public college or publicly funded private college, or a recognized public or private vocational school
3. have applied for a work permit within 180 days of your educational institution issuing your final grades
4. have had a valid study permit within those 180 days
If you plan to apply for permanent residency in Quebec, then you need a CSQ (Certificat de sélection du Québec). You need to apply that before the expiry of your PGWP.
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In most cases, your employer needs a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to support your job offer for Express Entry. A valid job offer has to be made by one employer for continuous, paid, full-time work for at least one year. Also, the job should be of Skill type O, A or B. As per your question, you need a job offer from your employer with a new positive LMIA. If you are currently working in Canada in a NOC 0, A or B job on a work permit that was issued based on an LMIA, then you do not need another LMIA. For better understanding of job-offer requirements, kindly click the link below:
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To become eligible for Federal Skilled Worker application, your work experience should be continuous and falls in the same type of job (have the same NOC) as the job you want to use for your immigration application. It should be same primary occupation NOC code as you mentioned in your express entry profile. Your federal skilled work must be:
1. within the last 10 years
2. paid work
3. at least 1 year of continuous work or 1,560 hours total (30 hours per week)
Full-time at 1 job: 30 hours/week for 12 months = 1 year full time (1,560 hours)
Equal amount in part-time: 15 hours/week for 24 months = 1 year full time (1,560 hours)
Full-time at more than 1 job: 30 hours/week for 12 months at more than 1 job = 1 year full
time (1,560 hours)
So the work experience you have will be counted as two different jobs of two different time durations. You cannot count it as continuous three years of skilled work experience.
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Due to the impacts of coronavirus pandemic, IRCC can not process applications on normal pace and processing times. If you have applied study permit application from India the processing time is 11 weeks. For study permit extensions inside Canada, the usual time is approximately three months.
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Hello Rajvinder
If your study permit application for Canada has been refused, you cannot appeal this decision. In case of temporary resident applications, judicial review can be requested instead of appealing the decision. I can say that you have the option of submitting your application again and address the reasons of refusal as mentioned by the officer. Make sure you have supporting documents to prove your intentions to study in Canada and as per the IRCC checklist made specifically for study permit application to Canada.
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It depends on what kind of work permit application you are applying for. If it is a post graduation work permit (PGWP), then you need to submit the documents demonstrating your completion of studies. If it is a LMIA based work permit, then you need to submit a positive LMIA approved, letter of job offer, job contract and other supporting documents. If the work permit is based on your spouse’s status in Canada, then you need to provide enough supporting documents which proves that your spouse has valid status in Canada. Along with the identification documents, financial documents, and employment establishment documents are also generally submitted.
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You can only apply work permit without a job offer if you are eligible for a job offer exempted work permit. Following can be the work permit scenarios which require no job offer:
1. Co-op work permit
2. When you have applied for permanent residency application and it is in process
3. You are spouse or family member of a person who has included you in his PR application
4. You are spouse or family member of a person who is studying or working in Canada
5. You have recently graduated from Canadian post-secondary institution
6. You have filed a refugee claim in Canada
7. You are a study permit holder who can no longer support themselves financially
8. You are a charitable worker
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While pursuant to s.133(1)(j)(i)(A), a sponsor must have a total income that is:
(A) At least equal to the minimum necessary income, if the sponsorship application was filed in respect of a foreign national other than a foreign national referred to in clause or;
(B) has a total income that is at least equal to the minimum necessary income, plus 30%, for each of the three consecutive taxation years immediately preceding the date of filing of the sponsorship application, if the sponsorship application was filed in respect of a foreign national who is:
(i) the sponsor’s mother or father,
(ii) the mother or father of the sponsor’s mother or father, or
(iii) an accompanying family member of the foreign national described in sub-clause (I) or (II).
On the other hand, in spousal sponsorship application, the spouse who is sponsoring signs the undertaking for the applicant and takes responsibility for three years. The sponsor has to show that he can support the person he is sponsoring and provides the proof of income if he is employed in Canada. If the sponsor is not working then he has to provide the other documentation showing that he can support his spouse financially. This must include a detailed explanation of how he plans to support himself and his spouse. Your husband can use bank savings as support. Also, he can ask letter of support from his parents etc.
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Yes. Representatives can be your friends or family members. You need to sign consent form that you are authorizing them to communicate with IRCC on your behalf. Friends and family members, when act as representative, are unpaid representative. You need to sign authority to release personal information form IMM 5475 for IRCC so they can release personal information to the designated individual.
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Hello Onkar
To become eligible to apply for Home Child Care Provider pilot program, the applicant must have at least one year of post secondary education in Canada or foreign education equivalent to one year post secondary education in Canada. Your niece should complete a diploma or two years certificate or three years diploma/certificate which means she needs to achieve a post secondary educational level in India. After that she needs to get her post secondary education assessed by Education Credential Assessment institution (WES, ICAS, IQAS etc.) to make it acceptable and equivalent to Canadian post secondary education. Being a nanny program holder does not fulfill all requirement for this pilot program. It can count towards your ability to perform the work as a nanny. I hope you understand there are many eligibility factors which primarily includes education, work experience & training (ability to do work), and language scores.
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If you are not getting full time student status due to non-availability of courses, you can justify this while applying for post graduation work permit. All you need is to get a letter from you institution stating this issue of getting enrolled in less courses due to covid-19 and you need to use this explanation letter while you apply for PGWP. Make sure you obey all the conditions of a your study permit in Canada and complete your study with good grades.
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Hello Jagroop
When your parents applied for their extension application in Canada, they got a status known as ‘Implied Status’ which means they have applied for an application which is in process. They can remain in Canada until there is a decision made on their application. There will not be any trouble even if their allowed entry period has expired.
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Yes. You can apply for Provincial Nominee Program with employer support. But you have to carefully look for skilled jobs for which Saskatchewan is accepting applications. You can work anywhere with a PGWP because it is an open work permit which allows you to work for any employer.
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Hello Baljit
A home child care provider applicant can apply for her husband and children at the same time as she is applying for herself. It will be an application for permanent residency for all the family members. She will get work permit on approval of her first stage of application while her dependent spouse and children will get work permit and study permit respectively. The PR application will be finalized after proving that the child care provider has completed two years of work in Canada in the specified occupation.
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You are correct that persons do not need to apply for a temporary resident visa to enter Canada who are from visa-exempt countries. Similarly, an applicant who wants to visit Canada on a super visa, does not need to apply for super visa but rather they will submit their passport to receive a counter foil to be pasted in their passport. The applicant will need to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) separately to allow them to travel to and enter Canada. The eTA will be electronically linked to their passports. These applicants are also exempt from biometrics. They may be allowed 2 years entry by CBSA officers at ports.
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Hello Sandeep,
Yes. You can work on an implied status if you have applied your PGWP before the expiration of your study permit. Your SIN is valid till the same date as of your study permit. IRCC allows you to start working immediately after you have applied for a work permit assuming that you meet all other requirements.
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Yes. She can apply again. She has to look for the reason of refusal for previous two applications and apply this time with complete justification to the officer’s concerns and refusal reasons. If she does not have information about her previous files, then ask her to request for her information from IRCC or contact our office for assistance in obtaining immigration records from IRCC.
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Government has removed the barrier for international students working in essential services to fight with the covid-19 pandemic situation. This change of allowed working hours more than 20 hours per week is for only those international students who are working in an essential service or function, such as health care, critical infrastructure, or the supply of food or other critical goods. This temporary rule change will be in place until August 31, 2020. For better clarity, read the link below:
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Yes, if you want to invite your parents on super visa, you must provide notice of assessment for the most recent year. The income on line 150 of the notice of assessment is considered to calculate the LICO figure.
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According to new caregiver pilots, a caregiver will be issued a work permit for three years. The purpose of this pilot is that you may work in Canada for two years after getting work permit as a Home Child Care provider or Home Support Worker. Once you get two years of paid work experience, you can submit the proof of work experience and your application for permanent residence will be processed in the remainder period.
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You can invite your sister and brother-in-law on a temporary resident visa (visitor visa). Apart from your personal income, there are many factor which are considered by an officer before issuing a visa, such as accommodation arrangement, bank savings, employment history etc. In other words, it is not only the income which effects the decision of an immigration officer who makes decision on a TRV application.
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If your brother cannot come to Canada at the moment, it is completely fine. But in future, whenever your brother wants to visit Canada, he must have a purpose to visit Canada. You can send him a statutory declaration for any upcoming birthday, anniversary, or any other occasion so that he could present a purpose of visiting Canada upon examination by a CBSA officer at port of entry.
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Ok. You can apply for your study permit extension application with proper documentation online. Make sure you provide all the proof of enrollment in the college such as Letter of enrollment, Letter of Attendance, Certificate of study in Quebec, Fee payment receipt from the college, Official transcript for the completion of first term of your program etc. Also provide all other supporting documents as per application guidelines and checklist available at IRCC website. Hopefully your study permit application will be approved.
For further assistance, you can contact us at our office. Thanks.
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Hello Gurpuneet
There could be many reasons why this happened that officer issued you only six months study permit. But all of these reasons will lead to the conclusion that the officer doubted your intentions to study in Canada. He was not really satisfied that you have intentions to study in Canada primarily. It could be the reason that you chose to enter Canada from Toronto airport rather than Montreal as your DLI is in Montreal. Another could be inappropriate answers to his questions regarding studies or intent to stay in Canada.
Could you please recall if something like that became an issue? I can only answer further about how your study permit extension can be done.
Thanks.
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Fill out the permanent resident card application quickly and submit it properly. Show this as a proof of application to your lawyer. I hope this would be sufficient to deal with your matter. If you need our assistance, we can quickly prepare and mail out your application within an hour so that you would be able to meet the requirements of your lawyer.
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Hello Inderpreet
You should have applied for your PR card earlier on time. Now you can request IRCC to process your PR card application to process urgently only if you have actually a valid reason of emergency such as:
a job opportunity
your own serious illness
the death of a family member
work related to your current job
the serious illness of a family member
But still it can not be a guarantee that you will get it processed early. So another option is you can apply for a PRTD (permanent resident travel document) from outside Canada when your PR card is expired and return to Canada with this PRTD.
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Your sister can apply for permanent residency under LCP only if she has at least 2 years of work experience as a nanny in Canada.
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As per the new pilot program of caregiver, the requirement of LMIA to hire a nanny in Canada has been removed. Now, you can bring a nanny from India to look after your old parents by making an offer of employment.
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Under new caregiver pilot, a caregiver will be issued a work permit which is occupation restricted open work permit. It means he or she can work with any employer in Canada who have made an offer of employment but she can not change the occupation. She has to work as caregiver only .
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Since you came under the old nanny program, you will not be eligible to get permanent residency under the new pilot programs – rather you can get permanent residency through the old LCP program. You can apply for your permanent residency application once you meet the following work experience requirements:
– 24 months of authorized full-time live-in employment, or;
– 3,900 hours of authorized full-time employment. You can complete these hours within a minimum of 22 months. When calculating your hours, you can also include up to 390 hours of overtime; and
– The work experience must be acquired within four years of your date of arrival.
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A caregiver applicant can include their family members’ application along with her application of home caregiver pilot program. If the applicant gets approved for work permit application then the dependent spouse will get an open work permit and the dependent child will get a study permit according to age of the child. Please note that a child does not need a study permit to study in a school below post secondary education.
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She has to go through name change process at the same office again. She needs to apply for last name change from Sandhu to Gill and she will receive a name change certificate. She can use that certificate to change her last name on all other identification dcouments.
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If you are going on a short visit to India, contact the Consulate General of India. I hope you would be able to get your passport on an emergency basis. Show your email or letter from India if your great grandmother is admitted in hospital etc. With respect to your PR card renewal, you can send the application now or you can submit it upon your return to Canada.