RQ discussions.

I've just signed the petition. For those who are going to sign and would like to know what is going on at St-Clair office where CIC buried all RQs from  the GTA - please add this as a comment:

"Please request and make public any information you can retrieve about so called "Pilot Project" being currently implemented by St-Clair CIC Operation Office in Toronto, where other offices refer all Residence Questionnaires ("residency cases" )for analysis. The project started earlier this year and no information about it is available for public."


Edited by twocats - 19 Jun 2013 at 12:02pm

Hey Twocats,

Good point!!!!to add in the petition.

But does anybody know what is this Pilot project???

That means all of us whose RQ files are transferred there are the scape goats for a new project. R we Trial & error customers!!!?

Nobody has any friends or relatives working in that office who could throw some light on this project?

May be some Go train/bus, subway train friends working in downtown???   Any people working in downtown ? please explore !!!

tosty6579 wrote: I got the RQ before test. I would like to know what to do next. there are many pages in this thread and many more on the internet but....is there a cheatsheet document regarding what to do once you get the RQ ? I do not understand or I am confused about requesting information .which one should I select to get my own information....Right to information act or Privacy act. Which departments/ agencies....CBSA/cic/usa border services/health deptt Please guide...I am really confused and trying to get information about what to do next....I think one of you should make one page cheat sheet....will be helpful for many....or if there is already one...please provide the link....Thanks a lot

The post by EasyRider is a good outline regarding documentation to include in response to RQ.

Foremost, read the instructions and apply them as best you can to your situation. Note, for example, if you read the instructions (including in particular the individual item requests) you will see that the answer (to your later question: "do I need to provide the details and documents from the time I became PR or just last 4 years in the application?") varies some, mostly though yes, information and documentation is requested for many items from date of arrival to the present. That said, while you should definitely be as complete as possible for the whole range of information requested (again, for most it is from arrival to present), as to documents to submit the focus really should be on the relevant four years. Exception: travel documents; for the travel documents, all travel documents in any way related to the whole range of time should be submitted.


CRA Notices of Assessment
Another exception, which leads to what I think is a big omission in the list provided by EasyRider, and that is your CRA Notices of Assessment. The importance of submitting CRA Notices of Assessment is second only to the travel documents, and for sure this should be for all years in which you report being resident in Canada, to present.

While these are not essential, like the travel documents (even when there is a legitimate reason travel documents cannot be submitted, the failure to submit them is problematic), the CRA NoA documents are probably the most important supporting documents the applicant can submit evidencing years the applicant has been resident-in-Canada.

How much of the rest the applicant should submit in response to a pre-test RQ depends on many things, ranging from individual background and circumstances to how solid the primary documents are showing activity (work/school/other) and place of actual residence (occupant status for residential addresses). If all travel documents are submitted, CRA NoA for each year, plus some additional proof of employment (T4s or alternatives), and direct documentation of ownership or lease of premises identified as residential address, and there is no reason to think there is a problem otherwise (no discrepancies in reported travel dates for example), an applicant could reasonably go light on submitting other documentation. Any weakness in these, go heavier on alternative, less direct sorts of documentation.

There is a topic here specifically about responding to the RQ where these things are discussed in more depth.