Immigration Forum / Canada / January 2004

Does anybody know if foreign income needs to be declared in your tax
return even though this income was recieved before becoming a PR?
To be
more specific:

I applied for the Skilled Worker immigration through Buffalo in December
2003. AOR was received in early January 2004.
Now I am applying for a job in a well-known international company that has
an office in Toronto, I have a matching skills for that position. If offered

Its time to say that I finally got it , Just send my
passports for stamping today with a self addressed envelope.
Here is my
time line

It is unbelievable how easy is to declare oneself a refugee and enjoy 3
years of a work permit and if everything goes cool: the permanent
residence. I have met people that have declared themselves "refugees"
and have told me that they are not really refugees.

If the Canadian embassy is satisfied with the genuineness of the
marriage/relationship, what other reasons would they have for wanting to
interview a sponsored (outside) spouse?  What kind of questions would they
ask?

I am an international student, MA in economics, I arrived in Canada at
the and of July, 2003 and I will graduate at the end of this April. My
visa will expire at the end of Sept this year.  In the meanwhile I
want to start the immigration process. I will have 70-74 points.

Dear Mr. Miller or Mr. Humphries:
    I am in the process of sponsering my husband to Canada (I am in
Canada he is in his country), and my question is we are 3 1/2 months
pregnant and it doesn't really look like his application will be done

We have just received an AOR from the office in London, UK this week and
were a little surprised to read that it might take up to 15 months to hear
anything from them.  Can anyone tell us how long it takes to hear if our
application is successful, and then how long after that it ...

Hello there everyone,
I've had some further news so I thought I'd come
back and update my timescales.  I'm hoping this will be encouraging to
those who are in the same position.

after posting 'feeling discouraged' on this forum and having a think
about things. would this be a feasable thing to do.
If I were to apply
to go to college in canada to get qualified and get a study

Is there any place where I can consult some questions regarding the
Canadian credit system? Different people tell me different stories...

Hi, everyone, do you know how many visa offcors in buffalo center? i
heard one of the visa officer: Lisa Holiday is very nice, is it true? i
do not know who is my visa officer, but in my letter i found a mark of
"MK", i guess this is the name of visa officer Mary Keefe, is she also

Is there some lists over immigration  to Quebeck in 1869 from Norway.
I am looking for four persons who came to Quebeck 14th june 1869. They came
with the ship "Martha"
Thank you.

Last year I attended an exhibition at Sandown Racecourse here in the UK
where I was informed that I would not be required to take a language
test to prove my English abilities as I was born and have lived in the
UK all my life.

I and my husband got our PR visa couple of days ago, which is valid
until April 3, 2004. Our circumstances are such that we can not leave
USA for a couple of months, i.e. until August.
Is there any way that we can get the visa extension upto August?