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We receive several calls daily from recent graduates in other provinces who realize their options for getting permanent resident status are limited if they stay in that province, so they want to know their chances of getting PR status through the SINP. The three most common SINP categories we see targeted by these graduates who have applied for, or already received, their post-graduate work permits are:

-SINP Student category

-SINP Hard-to-Fill Skills Pilot

-SINP International Skilled Worker: Employment Offer

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We understand that a refusal is distressing because it impacts your future plans in Canada and affects your immediate goals of working or continuing studies. Together with you, we'll assess the reason for the refusal, review the original submission, and then make a repair plan to get you back on track. This might mean another application, contacting IRCC to point out an error they made, or directing you to contact a lawyer to make an application for judicial review.

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PR applications generally take longer to process than temporary applications, and IRCC gives more opportunity to provide additional and better information while waiting for a final decision. If an officer has concerns, you will usually receive a procedural fairness letter and granted time to respond to the officer's concerns. Some concerns are easy to address: maybe better documentation is needed; the officer may have formed an opinion in regard to your eligibility, in which you can respond by giving a clear explanation in response to that opinion; or there may be an inadmissibility issue that has arisen like criminality or a serious medical issue. While these are rare instances, every application faces these kinds of possibilities. In the case of any scenario, we explain why the officer has this concern, and then we explore together how best to respond.

If the officer ultimately decides to refuse, then we will take stock of the entire situation and mull all your options:

• to appeal?

• to apply again in the same category or a different one?

• to switch employment?

• to change to a different status?

• to leave the country and apply from there?

• to improve your profile with better language scores, more work experience, etc?

These are examples of what we consider with you, and with each option, we look at the pros and cons to best benefit you.

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No. A renewed PR card is not a requirement for a citizenship application. Fortunately, the checklist for a citizenship application is short. However, the requirements are very precise, so you will still want to review the Checklist and Guide to ensure you meet the criteria. It is no fun getting the application returned because of some minor omission.

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For an out-of-Canada spousal sponsorship, the foreign spouse of a Canadian or permanent resident is living outside of Canada and will not enter Canada until a positive decision has been made and the visa is issued by an office outside Canada.

For an in-Canada spousal sponsorship, the foreign national spouse is in Canada, typically on visitor status or holding a study permit or work permit or sometimes with no status, and they get married to a Canadian or permanent resident or live together continuously as a common-law couple for at least 12 months. If this couple plans to be together in Canada during the processing, an in-Canada application can be submitted and gets processed to completion at an office inside Canada. If the applicant wishes to do so, they can apply for an open work permit with this process (that option is not available for the out-of-Canada stream).

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