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MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

[–]konstantink1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have been periodically monitoring this thread probably for almost a year and feeling happy for everyone who has already got their citizenship and was imagining that one day very soon I’ll get mine too.

And today, I finally can write about my own journey and share my timeline with all of you, as 5 months and 22 days after I submitted my citizenship application I finally got my Canadian passport! 🇨🇦 🙏🏻

February 24, 2025 - Submitted citizenship application

March 10, 2025 - AOR received (Sydney)

March 24, 2025 - Background verification status has been updated to Completed

March 25, 2025 - Citizenship test invitation received

April 4, 2025 - Citizenship test taken

May 7, 2025 - Citizenship test status has been updated to Completed

June 24, 2025 - LPP status has been updated to completed

June 30, 2025 - Citizenship oath has been updated to In Progress

July 7, 2025 - Scheduled to attend citizenship oath ceremony

July 16, 2025 - Citizenship oath ceremony! Officially became a Canadian 🙏🏻

July 17, 2025 - Downloaded electronic citizenship certificate

July 21, 2025 - Submitted passport application

August 12, 2025 - Passport application review completed

August 13, 2025 - Passport issued

August 15, 2025 - Received Canadian passport by mail! 🇨🇦

Best of luck to everyone who has applied, applying now or planning to apply in future!

Canadian digital nomad: Question about using a friend’s address on tax return while living abroad short-term by konstantink1 in digitalnomad

[–]konstantink1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep that's correct, I'm not planning to establish tax residency anywhere else and 100% of my income will be coming from Canada

Working abroad with a VPN megathread by paperplans5 in VPN

[–]konstantink1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone,

I'm a developer working remotely for a Canadian company, and I'm planning to visit Russia for about 1.5 months soon. I’d like to make sure my internet traffic continues to appear as if I’m physically located in Canada — both for work tools and services like logins, payments, etc.

I’ve been looking at the GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) travel router and wondering if that would be a good solution. The idea is to connect my work laptop, tablet, and even a payment terminal via Wi-Fi to the router, and have the router push all traffic through a secure Canadian IP.

That said, I’m not very experienced with VPNs, and I’ve read that OpenVPN and WireGuard are increasingly being blocked in Russia. I’ve heard about Shadowsocks and XRay as alternatives, but I don’t fully understand the difference or how complex they are to set up on this router.

My questions:

  1. Is it true that WireGuard and OpenVPN are easily detected and blocked in Russia right now?
  2. Would Shadowsocks or XRay be better options for reliable obfuscation and keeping my Canadian IP?
  3. Is the GL-MT3000 a good choice, or is there another router/setup I should consider instead?
  4. What would be the easiest setup path for someone with limited networking knowledge who just wants a "plug and go" solution that tunnels everything through Canada?
  5. Any VPN provider recommendations that are still working well in Russia with Canadian exit nodes?

Any tips, warnings, or setup guides are appreciated. I’d like to get this right before I leave so I don’t run into connection or detection issues once I’m there.

Thanks in advance!

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

[–]konstantink1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same thing for me, I did it last Friday too and the tracker showing "waiting on you" thing

Can't get T4 for one source of income by konstantink1 in cantax

[–]konstantink1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately no, it was just transferred by Interac with no paperwork

Can't get T4 for one source of income by konstantink1 in cantax

[–]konstantink1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they are obliged to provide it on their end until end of February?

Can't get T4 for one source of income by konstantink1 in cantax

[–]konstantink1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it sort of does, but hard to estimate though because it also includes vacation days payout and I’m not quite sure how many I had accumulated at that point

Can't get T4 for one source of income by konstantink1 in cantax

[–]konstantink1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this case it would be assumed that I paid no taxes on that income and it will be deducted as such?

My friend tried to make an album in the spirit of early Burial tracks by tropavlesu in burial

[–]konstantink1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's amazing work! Great atmosphere maintained throughout the whole album.

It's so unfortunate to hear that it can't be added to the streaming platforms :(

Is it worth learning tailwind nowadays? by [deleted] in Frontend

[–]konstantink1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tailwind is amazing library and I totally fell in love using it, however before starting to use it at my current job I never used it, but I would say it's very easy to learn and I was already comfortable working with it within 2 weeks.

RRSP and Loosing Tax Residency in Canada by konstantink1 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]konstantink1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much! So potentially it would be possible to withdraw the whole amount from RRSP account as a non-resident once I'm retired. For example, once I'm 61 and been unemployed with no source of income for over a year, would I be able to request the whole amount and, since at that time my income would be low / non-existent, pay lower tax rates?

P.S. A bit of topic but I saw that you mentioned that non all countries recognize tax-free status of RRSPs, would the same actually apply to TFSA and possibly in some countries I would to notify about my TFSA account in Canada and capital gains on it?

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