PR Cards - staggered?
 

Hi folks,

My P.R. card came in the post roughly four weeks after landing.

We have now been here 8 weeks and hubby's card is nowhere to be seen...... has anyone else found that couples get their cards this far apart? (Wondering why my card came first when he was the principle applicant and I was merely the "spouse".)

Any comments welcome........ pondering whether or not to attempt to contact them but I know it will be a nightmare.

Mrs Madmac

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Hi

Contact them 1-800-255-4541 your husband should have had his by now. (This number is for PR cards only)

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Oh thank you very much for that!

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My PR card came through after 10 days, my wife has now been waiting 3 months both sent together. We have called several times to be told there is now a 6 month waiting list, and not to worry

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PR Cards for new arrivals are being processed in 30 days:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/departm...n.html#pr_card

Something's gone wrong with your wife's. You need to find out urgently in case it's been lost or stolen in the mail.

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Hi

They are "blowing you off" Newly landed Immigrants the posted time is 30 days and 65 days for applicants see: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/departm...n.html#pr_card and this was updated 3/Oct/06. Phone them.

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My wife spoke to them on Friday morning, they confirmed that her card had not yet been processed and that we should call again if we hadn't received it by November. We raised the point that their website was stating 30 days, they just replied that that was a guideline not a reality.

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I bet if you paid your taxes a few months late and said "well, the deadline is more of a guideline really" you wouldn't get very far.

What a way to run a country! I can't understand how there's not boiling fury at the widespread utter incompetence of the Canadian Government.

K.

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Because although many people in Canada realise the gov't is incompetent, they also realise it's pretty much the same anywhere else, so why sweat it eh? And, oh look, there's a Tim Horton's...

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Oh well looks like it will be fun when I phone them......... their own rules state that you can't get back into the Country unless you have the PR card - which means you can't leave............. hubby is meant to be going to America shortly............. no pr card then no trip!

(As for no fury at the way they run things here............. from my own experience not much difference from home. I wonder what it is like for immigrants going to the UK....... we got our SIN Numbers, Driving Licenses and OHIP appointments all sorted in a couple of days when we landed........ I doubt the same could be said for the UK??)

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My experience - time to have police certificates:
Belgium - 4 days
France - 2 weeks
UK - 3 weeks to receive the letter and then 40 days to print out information from a computer....

Still waiting to send in the Federal application because of the dear Metropolitan Police.

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PR Card is not required on the land frontier (COPR will do + passport).

Could he drive to a U.S. airport near the border and take a domestic flight from there? If you're in Guelph then Buffalo and Detroit should both be within driving range.

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If you come from Canada to the UK you can drive on your Canadian licence for a year, and can swap it for a UK licence within the year. You don't need to have your licence on you in order to drive.

Registering for the NHS is easy, doesn't require an NI number, and there's no moratorium: you can get treated as soon as you become resident. Whereas you won't be covered anywhere in Canada for the next three months.

K.

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My certificates arrived exactly within the 40 days, which makes me wonder if they print them within 48 hours and then just hold on to them for the next 38 days.

By the way, in case you were wondering, I don't hold the UK police up as an example of competence. The UK police are highly political, utterly mismanaged, and completely misdirected in their priorities (they've got time to investigate reports of the Prime Minister saying "****ing Welsh" but no time to investigate arson, assault and theft by feral teenagers on sink estates). It's one of the reasons I want out of the UK (a reason shared by many on this forum, I suspect).

K.

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I lived in the UK for 5 years and I never did get an NI number... they kept wanting a letter of a job offer... I kept telling them I was self-employed... after two years of having my letters and calls ignored, not followed up, etc... I just forgot about it.

I received a nice 'telling off' (full-on voiced raised in front of all others in the waiting area, finger wagging included) by a receptionist at a doctor's surgery about "people like me" (foreigners) coming to the UK to abuse the NHS. Charming.

Relating to the above... I needed to see the above doc to make sure I had a TB innoculation scar... it's a legal requirement by the Immigration bit of the Home Office. I saw the doc... he looks at my arm and said 'yeah, you have one'... I say, 'no I don't, that's not a TB innoc scar...', he says, 'yeah, all babies get it'... I say, 'in the UK, right?' ... 'yeah, it was standard...' ... 'But I wasn't a baby in the UK...' (Duuuuuh....) :rolleyes: I never did receive a TB jab (like I was suppose to) so if I've spread disease all over the British Isles, blame him. :p

As I was nearing the end of my UK Ancestry Visa and applying for PR, I realised I didn't completely tick all the right boxes to ensure PR (because I was self-employed things were not clear). I tried for months to get some clarity... calls forwarded into outterspace, letters ignored, put on hold until the line went dead, etc... when I finally got someone with their head not firmly wedge up their... I was told my application would just be decided on the judgement of the caseworker on the day. So I say, 'so if they're having a shitty day, I screwed?' He kinda laughed and said, 'don't worry about it but ... yeah...' Oh, thanks for clearing that up for me.

I experienced lots of frustration... and that's just a small sampling of it .... but, it's just real life shit and I try not to let real life affect my own little world. ;)