Q. “My landing date for Canada P.R. is coming. I want to apply PR visa for my fiancee(we are going to get married pretty soon). I can either apply a Family Member PR after landing or inform Canada General Consulate to add my wife as a dependent to get a new visa before landing, which way is better in terms of time and difficulty?”

Q. ” I am a Canadian Green Card holder. I landed in June, 1996. I have been working in the U.S. and have not come back to Canada since landing. I wonder if I can go back to Canada, and if I will face the withdrawal of the GC when I enter Canada.”

Q. “The new application kit (published Feb,98) for Independent Applicants does not ask for an assessment by CCPE for engineers. I checked “Appendix C: Checklist for Independent Immigrants” section. This assessment used to be a required document before.

Is this still required? If ‘yes’ .. does “Engineering Physicist and Engineering Scientist”(NOC 21483) have to do it?”

Q. “…what would Computer Software trainers be classified as in the job classification, and is there scope for people like us to work in Canada presently.

My wife and I both trainer the Microsoft Office suite, E-mail / internet, various email packages and organizers as well as the lotus smartsuite. My wife has also worked in DTP and trainers the Corel Draw package.

I have a BA Degree and Honours, with a higher education diploma.

Could anyone reading this advise us as to the prospects computer trainers have of being accepted and of finding work?”

Other than exceptional circumstances, a citizenship applicant must have accumulated three years (1095 days) of physical presence in Canada in the four years preceding the date of application.