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Hi. I moved from NY to BC back in June and in August my husband (who is a Naturalized Canadian citizen) and I started trying to apply for the CCTB for our girls. Emphasis on the trying.
We have been sending necessary paper work and letters explaining why I don't have a SIN back and forth ever since September. Every time I send something out the tax office in Surrey sends a letter back claiming I didn't send them something! Two weeks ago a woman from the Surrey Tax office called and said she'd decided to start looking into what was going on and had me fax over a copy of my passport (which they already had at least 3 copies of along with birth certificates which would explain my lack of Canadian SIN) I faxed it over on the 27th and today I received a letter in the mail- dated the 6th of this month stating yet again that I didn't give them my SIN and they needed yet another copy of something showing my citizenship and that I had failed to state my imigration status (nevermind that at the end of January I'd sent them a letter telling them that I am an imigrant from the US and I have just put in my paperwork for my permanent resident status and paperwork with birth certificates and passports!) This is getting crazy because not only have had our CCTB with held, but my husband has also had his HST checques withheld because of what's been going on in Surrey.
After I received that letter I was quite upset (my husband would say fuming) I called the Kelowna Community Outreach Centre and the lady there had me call my MLA, the MLA's office had me call my parliment rep and they haven't called back yet. The woman at the Kelowna Community Outreach Centre said that she's had this happen to a few other people where the Surrey tax office puts them through the same thing and does everything over and over.
Needless to say I'm quite aggrivated. I'm wondering if anyone else has gone through this and if so what did you have to do to finally get your CCTB filed.
We have been sending necessary paper work and letters explaining why I don't have a SIN back and forth ever since September. Every time I send something out the tax office in Surrey sends a letter back claiming I didn't send them something! Two weeks ago a woman from the Surrey Tax office called and said she'd decided to start looking into what was going on and had me fax over a copy of my passport (which they already had at least 3 copies of along with birth certificates which would explain my lack of Canadian SIN) I faxed it over on the 27th and today I received a letter in the mail- dated the 6th of this month stating yet again that I didn't give them my SIN and they needed yet another copy of something showing my citizenship and that I had failed to state my imigration status (nevermind that at the end of January I'd sent them a letter telling them that I am an imigrant from the US and I have just put in my paperwork for my permanent resident status and paperwork with birth certificates and passports!) This is getting crazy because not only have had our CCTB with held, but my husband has also had his HST checques withheld because of what's been going on in Surrey.
After I received that letter I was quite upset (my husband would say fuming) I called the Kelowna Community Outreach Centre and the lady there had me call my MLA, the MLA's office had me call my parliment rep and they haven't called back yet. The woman at the Kelowna Community Outreach Centre said that she's had this happen to a few other people where the Surrey tax office puts them through the same thing and does everything over and over.
Needless to say I'm quite aggrivated. I'm wondering if anyone else has gone through this and if so what did you have to do to finally get your CCTB filed.