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What to do if you lost your wallet?
Losing one’s wallet can feel very much like a painful severance or even an amputation. Usually your wallet contains a good proportion of the most important parts of our day-to-day life; the simple act of leaving a wallet in a restaurant or on a bench, or even having it stolen, can be devastating both emotionally…
Best Immigration Tools
What are the best tools, websites, and content for any job in the immigration and document industry here in Canada? We’ve put together the winners to help you do the job faster. Here are some of the winners we will be covering: Express Entry Tool and Websites IRCC Application Processing Times Are you a Canadian…
Aylan Kurdi and Canada’s Refugee Policy
Aylan Kurdi by Defend International / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Aylan Kurdi is the 3 year old child washed up on a beach in Turkey. The boat he, his 5 year old brother and his parents, as well as 8 other refugees were travelling in capsized in the Mediterranean. They were trying to reach a Greek island and from there…
How to prove your common-law relationship
If you wish to sponsor a common-law partner to come to Canada, you must prove to immigration authorities that your common-law relationship is a valid one, and not one of convenience. That is, you must convince them that you are not sponsoring someone that you don’t have a genuine relationship with. Not only that, you…
Online Applications for Permanent Residence (PR)
The government of Canada is testing out a trial version of online applications for a wide range of immigration programs, including sponsorship programs, provincial nominee programs, and Atlantic immigration programs, just to name a few. This is still a Beta version, as they say, so rest assured that you can still apply on paper if…
Canadian Citizenship by Descent Tool – Are you a citizen?
3 easy steps to find out if you are Canadian If you are looking for simple answers to a solution to this all-important question, “Am I Canadian?”. Then read on… Step 1 – The simple tool Here is a simple chart explaining things if you are a Canadian. Detailed explanations and alternative solutions can…
Paying Fees and Other Expenses for the Parents Sponsorship
This article is a continuation of a parent sponsorship course – to see full course material please click here In-depth Tutorial on Spousal Sponsorships, your total expenses to sponsor someone will depend on whether you appoint a representative and what you hire your representative for. A paid representative who guides you through the entire application…
Marrying and Sponsoring an Antiguan or Barbudan
Marriage to an Antiguan Citizen If you want to bring your Antiguan spouse or partner to live in Canada, you must then file a sponsorship application for them to become a permanent resident. If they would like to visit you in Canada while their application is in process, they must also apply for a visitor…
Marrying and Sponsoring a Bermudan
Marriage to a Bermudan Citizen Every country has its own laws that apply to its citizens marrying a person from a different country. Getting married to a Bermudan citizen with the goal of eventually bringing them to Canada to live is a process with many steps. The Bermudan government imposes strict requirements on foreigners who…
Marrying and Sponsoring a Burkinabe
Located in Western Africa north of Ghana Tropical weather with warm, dry winters, and hot and wet summers is what you can expect. Droughts are common and recurring. Using the Government Directly Please be aware that if you are filing your application yourself, you should do an extensive amount of research before proceeding. Please…
Replacing your Immigration Document – a step-by-step guide
Do you urgently need to verify a document you used to immigrate to Canada, perhaps in order to apply for your Canada Pension and Old Age Supplement payments? Does your Record of Landing, for example, or your Study Permit, need to have an error corrected? And what do you do if you came to Canada…
Marrying and Sponsoring a Cayman Islands Citizen
Marriage to a Cayman Island Citizen Every country has laws that apply to its citizens marrying a person from a different country. Getting married to a Cayman Islands citizen to bring them to Canada to live eventually is a process with many steps. You must demonstrate to Cayman Islands officials that you are not currently…
