DEVOLUCION DEL 50% DEL PAGO PARA LA RESIDENCIA

Les adjunto esta informacion para los que pagaron $975, el gobierno va a dovelverles el 50% ya que disminuyo la tasa.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Refund of Right of Permanent Residence Fee

ON MAY 2, 2006, the Government of Canada announced a 50 percent reduction of the $975 Right of Permanent Residence Fee. You may be entitled to a refund.

You are eligible for a refund if:
• You paid the $975 Right of Permanent Residence Fee; and
• You did not become a permanent resident of Canada until after 12:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on May 3, 2006.

How much will be refunded?
The amount of the refund is CAN $485. The refund applies to every person on your application who paid the CAN $975 fee and who did not become a permanent resident until after 12:00 a.m. EDT on May 3, 2006. The fees to process applications remain unchanged.

How to obtain your refund
If you or your sponsor paid the $975 fee for your application in Canada, you do not have to submit a request for a refund. CIC will issue refunds for all family class (sponsorship) applicants. You will receive it by mail.

If you or your sponsor have moved since you paid the Right of Permanent Residence Fee, please make sure to notify CIC of any changes to your address. You can notify our Call Centre or use our Web site to notify us of any changes. See below for the contact information.

If you paid the $975 fee outside of Canada, and you did not receive a refund before arriving in Canada, you must complete the attached request form and mail it to CIC.

To contact Citizenship and Immigration Canada

CIC Call Centre
Call the CIC Call Centre toll-free at 1 888 242-2100 (in Canada only).

TTY
If you have trouble hearing, you can use CIC’s Text Telephone (TTY) service from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. your local time by calling toll-free at 1 888 576-8502 (in Canada only).

Web site
You can obtain more information on the Right of Permanent Residence Fee refund and other CIC programs and services on our Web site at http://www.cic.gc.ca.

If you paid the Right of Permanent Residence Fee outside of Canada

REFUND REQUEST FORM

Please mail this refund request form to:

RPRF Refunds
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
CIC Accounting Operations
300 Slater Street
Ottawa, ON
K1R 7G7

PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY

Principal applicant (first and last names):

_____________________________

Date of birth: ___________________
Country of birth:_________________

Date entered Canada as a permanent resident: __________________________________

Visa office where you paid the Right of Permanent Residence Fee: ___________________

Client identification number, if known: _______________

File number, if known: ________________________

Names of other people on your application who also paid the Right of Permanent Residence Fee:

______________________________________

Mailing address in Canada—must be valid for up to a year as this is the address to which your refund will be mailed—(see note below):

Street address: _____________
Apartment: _____________________

City: _____________ Province: _______________
Postal code: ______________

Tel.: (_____) ____________________

___________________
Signature

NOTE: Please notify us if your address changes. You can contact the CIC Call Centre at 1 888 242-2100
or change your address on-line at https://services3.cic.gc.ca/ols/ols.do.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Refund of Right of Permanent Residence Fee
You must include copies of the following documents with your request:
• A copy of your Confirmation of Permanent Residence (COPR); and
• A copy of the receipt you received when you paid the Right of Permanent Residence Fee.

1) Processing Times for Sponsored Parents and Grandparents in the Family Class

Applicants and their sponsors may be aware that processing times for applications in the Family Class for sponsored parents and grandparents are somewhat longer. We wish to provide you with information on why this is the case, and how long the process is likely to take. We understand your desire to have these cases finalized promptly, and regret that this is not always possible.

In establishing priorities for various visa categories, difficult choices must be made. Available resources and differing public policy objectives must be taken into account. Each year the Government of Canada announces targets for the number of landings within each immigration category. It is important as part of our partnership with the provinces, which deliver social and other services to arriving immigrants, to manage immigration within these target ranges and with the resources allocated to Citizenship and Immigration by Parliament. The targets are further divided into the economic and non-economic components in order to work toward the government’s stated policy objective. At the same time, CIC is devoting all available resources to ensuring that our priority Family Class cases (spouses, partners, and dependent children) are processed as quickly as possible. The objective is 6 months for these cases; but currently only half are processed this quickly, and it takes 11 months to finalize 80% of cases. We wish to focus on improvements in this area. We also have an obligation to meet the goals of our humanitarian program by resettling refugees from abroad and providing permanent residence status to those to whom Canada has given protection. In other words, these classes get first priority for places in the non-economic component. These global targets are then translated into specific targets, by component, for our visa offices abroad.

2) Immigration Canada Alert: Permanent Resident card replaces the paper IMM 1000 Record of Landing document as of December 31, 2003.

3) Newspaper Articles and Advertisements

Articles about Canadian immigration policies and advertisements for immigration consultants often appear in newspapers and magazines. If you have concerns regarding the legitimacy of the information that appears in these publications, please note that the Canadian Embassy does not have the resources to respond to your concerns by telephone or in person. If you call or visit our office to confirm the veracity of the information provided, you will be directed to consult this Internet website for information regarding the various visa and immigration services that are available.

4) Consultants

Please note that the Embassy does not require that you have a representative or consultant. We have tried to make our application kits as simple as possible so that you can complete them yourself. If you decide to use the services of a representative, you are of course free to do so. The Embassy treats all applicants equally and does not provide preferential service to those with representatives. For further information please go to: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/representative/index.asp.

It is your responsibility to ensure that any representative that you might choose is ethical and competent to perform the services required. You should not hesitate to ask the representative (whether a lawyer or a consultant) for references or other proof that he or she has the necessary skills. Please note that as of April 13, 2004, CIC/CBSA and the IRB will only do business with a fee charging representative if they are a member of the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC), a Canadian law society or the Chambre des notaires du Québec. If a representative is not a member, the applicant can either choose to proceed unrepresented or they may hire an authorized representative.
Please enter the following web page in order to verify if your representative is listed.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/representative/index.asp

Beware of representatives who claim that you will get a visa, obtain citizenship or benefit from special treatment from the Canadian government by using their services. The Embassy is not associated with, and cannot recommend, any representatives. Note also that you will be held accountable for any documents you submit to the Embassy or that your representative submits on your behalf.

For more information, please visit the following website: Who May Represent You.

5) Seafarers

International seafarers travelling to Canada to join ships as crew members now require a valid passport for entry as well as a seafarer’s identity document. They must also obtain a Temporary Resident (Visitor) visa, unless they are citizens of a country that is exempt from this requirement. Previously, seafarers were only required to present seafarer’s identity documents in order to enter Canada.