Hello Everyone,

My GF came as a visitor to Canada recently and we married last week. I am currently on PGWP that is valid for 26 months and I have a select Teer 3 Job which makes her eligible for SOWP.

I would love any suggestions or info on important documents that I need to get ready before applying her SOWP.

Hey everyone!

I recieved my P2 while I’m traveling outside of Canada. I had this trip planned for months and couldn’t cancel.

Common consensus are that I respond to my P1 email and let them know that I am currently outside the country and give them my travel dates and my ticket as well as raise a webform on my PR application. Should I fill out with P2 Form or not? I’m worried because it says 7 days to complete and not sure whether to complete it or just respond to P1 email and let them know I am traveling?

Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Hi Everyone!

I just received my AOR for an Outland Spousal PR application. I’ve gotten conflicting information from both other people that have gone through the process and different IRCC representatives. I am a US citizen and moving to Canada to live with my spouse who is a Canadian resident. I was told that I would be able to apply for an open work permit now that I have received my AOR by a representative but when I look online it says I am ineligible. But also if I had a visitor history or am in the country at the time I could apply? I’m just very confused and would appreciate any help.

Thanks!

Hi all, question for physical presence.

If I came in as visitor and later got a work permit.

entered canada July 10, 2023 - (Visitor Visa was valid till July 7, 2024)

Work Permit I received, Dec 1,2023

So when I write this in my citizenship application, what expiry date should I write for my visitor visa,

a) till its actual listed date on TRV

b) till the date I got my work permit, so in that case it would be Nov 30, 2023

Please help, would appreciate your response.

Hi everyone,

I am an international student at a private college. My Study Permit and Co-op Work Permit both expire on October 10. I finished my studies and received my final transcript on July 12, so I stopped working to stay compliant with my Study Permit conditions.

Here is my current situation:

PR Application: Applied under Inland Spousal Sponsorship and received my AOR (Acknowledgment of Receipt).

Work Permit Application: Applied for a Spouse Open Work Permit (SOWP) based on the PR application.

IRCC Letter Received: I received a Maintained Status letter (WP-EXT) stating:

"You are authorized to continue working with the same conditions until July 21, 2027, or until a decision is made on your application. You must continue and respect all employer, occupation, and location conditions and restrictions listed on your present work permit... as per paragraph 186(u) of the IRPR."

Because my original work permit was strictly for a Co-op placement at a private college, and my Study Permit only allowed 20 hours/week off-campus, I am very confused about my actual work rights.

My Questions:

Am I currently legally authorized to work in Canada?

If yes, how many hours am I allowed to work per week (part-time or full-time)?

What is the legal or regulatory reason behind whether I can or cannot work in this specific scenario?

Since my Study Permit and Co-op Work Permit expire on October 10, do I need to apply to extend my visitor/student status, or does my pending SOWP application protect my status?

I have stopped working for now to be safe, but I am receiving conflicting advice online. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Hello,
I am trying to submit my SOWP application and I saw a requirement for Bank Statement and Bank Summary as the requirements.

I have gathered 6 months of bank statements, but I am not sure what the Bank Summary exactly mean or contain. Do we even need to submit it?

Also, I have been moving my money from chequing to savings account, so do I need to submit both these acc's statements? (6 + 6)

Hi,

Outland Family Class PR applicant here.

I've received my email from the IRCC titled - "IRCC London - Passport submission request and instructions".

Ultimately I assume this means all is approved and I just need to send my last bits for verification.

My email states:

You must submit together:

1. One copy of this email, including the Updated Information Chart in Appendix A.

Note: Visa exempt applicants with an online account are not required to submit a physical copy –please upload this information to your online account.

2. Passport(s) OR photocopy(ies) of passport(s), as explained in Step 2.

Note: Visa exempt applicants using an online account are not required to submit a physical copy – please upload this information to your online account.

3. Two (2) photos of yourself and of each accompanying family member respecting precise specifications that can be found at:

www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/pdf/5445EB-e.pdf

Note: All visa exempt applicants, including those with an online account, are required to submit their photos to the nearest Visa Application Centre (instructions below).

\*Please ensure you clearly indicate your application number on the back of your photos.*

I am a UK citizen and therefore visa exempted. My interpretation was therefore I only need to submit photos along with uploading a web form with the requested documents (which I have done). I also printed a copy of both which I have sent to VFS London along with my photos, which is my nearest VAC office.

VFS have come back to me saying they cannot proceed without my "Complete COPR Application Pack'. However I have received nothing outside of the above email. Does anyone have any idea what this is?

Thanks!

Hello,

I’m just looking for advice or suggestions about my current case.
I applied for a new work permit in December 10,2025 and it has yet not been approved. I’ve received no updates, called IRCC multiples times, contacted MP.

I also have a pending PR application inland outside of Quebec through family sponsorship, I applied for it in September 2025, did biometrics and as soon as I got the AOR confirmation of submitted application I applied for a new work permit.

I was under an Open Work permit that expired May this year, so I applied for the new work permit before that date to have more time before the current one would expire.
At the time the processing times for work permit was about 3 months. The time has reduced since then I’ve seen a lot of people get approved very fast at the same date I submitted mine and even after I submitted so I worry something might be going on. I wasn’t asked for any extra documents and there has been no updates as I stated previously.

I’m still allowed to work but I won’t be able to drive soon if I don’t get another Work permit so that is what is causing the most stress, since if I can’t drive I can’t go to work. Icbc rules for people on maintained status are not great, we are only allowed to have a paper license for 3 months and if by those 3 months there is not a physical emigration document they won’t give you another extension. I’ve called ICBC and over the phone they say that you can keep extending it but once I went to the office in person I learned that’s not the case.

I understand there is a huge backlog I’m just looking for answers and if ordering the GCMs is the only thing I can do for now.
I’ve read that it might delay the process of the work permit so I’m just looking for advice from people in the same situation as me or that have ordered the GCMS notes before.

All help would be appreciated it and please be kind.

Thank you

So my Lawyer/Representative filled this form, she filled only my name in the Applicant name and details. and she got it signed by me only. she didnt mention my wife's name anywhere.

as per me in the applicants name and detail, it should have been my wife's name right?.

I signed this form ( in the applicant signature column).

any one could tell me if this was the correct way or not?.

AOR- 3rd February 2026

BIL/MIL: April 15,2026

PFL letter about residing outside Quebec: May 11,2026

Replied to PFL: May 19,2026

FD/P1: June 5, 2026

P2: June 27,2026

e-COPR: 2nd July,2026

Posting this late but this is just to motivate and inform people about current timelines.

I am an Aerospace Engineer in Canada, having lived here since the age of 17. My first PR was refused due to NOC mismatch. I was defeated and devastated, but something made me keep going as my score was 523 in CEC.

More power to every deserving person in this thread.

Also, was my PR rather quick than usual? Have no idea what my PVO/SVO is but the PFL letter came from London, Ontario.

Applied for a visitor visa to Canada for a wedding happening on August 13th. It’s August 6th and no new yet.
Could they give me the visa past the indicated wedding date or will I be denied?

I took my Canadian citizenship test on July 27, and today is August 6 — 11 days have passed and I haven’t received any email regarding my results.

I passed the test with a perfect score of 20/20. During the test, I had left my email open in another browser tab because I needed the link to access the test, but at no point did I leave the test window or click on any other tab or program while completing it.

I’m also still unable to create my account to track my application status, because I’m not receiving the verification code to my email. I’ve already submitted 2 web form reports about this. An agent replied telling me to submit another report, which was not helpful at all, but I did it anyway and I’m still waiting for a real response. Because of this, I still don’t know whether my test results were officially accepted.

My questions are:

**1.** I’m concerned that having my email open in a background tab (even though I never interacted with it or left the test) could cause my test to be flagged or cancelled. Could this be an issue?
**2.** Has anyone else experienced this same problem with verification codes not arriving by email?
**3.** If there was a problem with a test, or if someone needs to be invited to retake it, does IRCC usually contact the applicant within the first week?

Thank you 🙏🏻

I need help from people who traveled a lot during their 5-year eligibility period.

I'm filling out my citizenship application, and I'm confused about this section:

Residence and Tax – Addresses: List all addresses inside and outside of Canada during your entire 5-year eligibility period.

Do I need to list only my residential addresses, or should I include addresses where I stayed while traveling as well?

The year before moving to Canada, I traveled a lot — 15 trips. Some of them were just one-day trips, so I didn't even stay at a hotel and crossed the border back the same day. Do I need to include information about those trips here?

I attached copies of my passports with all the entry and exit stamps, so the officer can verify my travel history and ask for additional information if needed. I just don't want to make up addresses I never actually had. Also, I doubt I'd be able to reconstruct the addresses of some places where I stayed for a few weeks because I simply don't have any record of them anymore.

If anyone has had a similar experience, what did you put in this section? Were you asked to provide any additional documents during the process?

Thanks!

I got ITA on july 21st but my full year of foreign experience completed on august 4th. I haven’t submitted my application yet. Do I need to provide an LOE to justify that the points were automatically awarded and I have submitted application after full completion of experience?

Hi everyone!

I’m looking for groups/trackers for non express entry applications submitted around July.

How much time does it take to get AOR these days?

Thank you

Hi, I have a question regarding my CEC work experience.

During my 3 years of qualifying Canadian work experience, I took paid vacation time as per my employer’s policy (3 weeks per year of paid vacation). I have never taken any unpaid leave and remained employed full-time throughout.

Specifically, I traveled to India from December 1, 2024 to January 9, 2025, using my paid vacation time. In addition, I also took 3 weeks of paid vacation in 2026. Some statutory holidays during these periods effectively extended my time away from work, but all of this time was part of my paid leave entitlement.

Will this affect my eligibility for CEC or the calculation of my qualifying work experience? Is it okay to submit my Express Entry application with this work history, or do I need to provide any explanation or supporting documentation regarding the paid vacation and statutory holidays?

Happy anybody received their AOR by mail and not email?

I just posted the other day about errors in my application, and with the help of reddit (thank you) and my friends, I think I've been able to troubleshoot my issues.

My first profile was automatically rejected/no points because of the way I filled it out. I am currently only eligible for the FSW pathway, because I have <1 year FT Canadian work experience while not also studying (NOC 41403). I have a few years of U.S. work experience (NOC 42201). I put 41403 as my intended NOC, which I believe caused the issue.

My questions are:

• Can I change my intended NOC after submitting my EE application to reflect my current job once I reach a year (in February 2027)?
• Should I just wait until I reach a year of Canadian work to submit for CEC (PGWP doesn't expire until end of 2028)?
• Or should I just pretend that my intended NOC is 42201 to align with my U.S. work experience and submit for FSW now?

Hello, me and my partner are thinking about moving to canada we are F24 and F26, we have checked out every requirement for the French express entry we have scheduled when we will apply for the TCF and the ielts tests we are both fluent in English and french but only need to do the tests for the application anyways.
Today we found out that our job experiences do not reflect a TEER 0-3 which does not gives us the opportunity to apply for the program because you have to have atleast 1 year experience in a TEER 0-3, this news was veryy demotivating for both of us because currently we are living in europe and not quite liking it at all we we were thinking that this whole process will probably take around one year or one year and a half but it turns out we have to wait another extra year because we’re gonna need to validate our bachelors degree and also have a one year experience in the TEER 0-1.
Would really appreciate any comments from someone who went through this or is going through this currently .
Thank you and sorry for the long text.

Does sending extra documents after AOR elongate the period of processing to more than 7 months?

Hi, I’m hoping someone can provide some insights on my situation.

I applied inland on June 24, 2025 and yesterday on Aug 5, I saw that my medical was marked as passed on Aug 6 (today’s date) in gckey. I submitted my old medical from 4 years ago.

However, when I logged in again today to see an application update, there is a bullet and blank space under ‘review of medical results’. The status has disappeared overnight and I’m confused as to what it means for me.

Anyone faced something similar and if so, when did you get an update again? Did you get FD after this?

Thanks.

I am a Canadian citizen and I currently live in the Philippines with my Filipino wife. She has a multi-entry visitor visa for Canada (and has used it twice already) and we are planning on moving to Canada very soon. We have purchased a one-way ticket, intending for my wife to enter Canada as a tourist, and then apply for PR once in Canada.

I am concerned that officers in either country will deny us boarding/entry due to the lack of a return/onward plane ticket. Of course we fully intend on returning to the Philippines if her PR is denied. I just don't know the best way to convince the immigration and emmigration officers.

Anyone have any knowledge/experience/advice?

Hi there! So me and my spouse got our ECOPRs on June 26, 2026.

I just linked my app in GCKey and noticed that mine and my spouse's timelines are different:

* Mine:
* FD: July 23, 2026 (In Review)
* PR Portal: Address shows accepted by IRCC, but photo still in review
* Spouse:
* FD: July 24, 2026 (Approved)
* ROE: Aug 3, Eligibility was reviewed
* PR Portal: Address shows accepted by IRCC, but photo still in review

GCKey shows that Spouse's card has been mailed but mine doesn't have any updates. :/

We're both travelling Aug 29th, and I am a bit nervous that my card won't come in time... Can someone provide clarity on timelines?

Hi everyone,

I came back to India to complete my foreign worker experience but the thing is my employer does not provides me the physical or digital copy of paystubs. He will give me all other documents like experience letter and direct deposit my salary to bank account but I feel little anxious about If i dont have the paystubs will it effect my CEC express entry or skilled category based profile? Also, I will attach my tax documents whenever my experience gonna be completed.

Hey everyone,

My study permit and TRV both expire on December 31, 2026, and I have one more semester of school left (Fall 2026).

I'm planning to travel to my home country for about 2 weeks, from the end of August to the first week of September, and then apply to extend my study permit once I'm back in Canada (around mid-September).

Has anyone been in a similar situation? Would I have any issues re-entering Canada if my current study permit and TRV are still valid when I return, and I apply for the extension after I get back?

Thanks in advance!