Smudger75

Hi all, one quick question. Has anybody who's landed in the last three months got their PR cards yet???

Dorftrottel

No not yet - still waiting - 7 weeks.

madscots

well after 13 months we have now landed, 10 minutes to do the "landing" all very straight forward.

Siouxie

Congrats!

Jim Humphries

After this summer's sharp down turn in Skilled worker visas it is likely that there will not be the usual "wait 'til the new year" for cases finalizing at this time. We can hope anyway.

milinky21

I just checked online and our status changed to 'decision made'. So happy but prepared for another wait. I was doing some research through some old messages and found your timeline above. I'm so amused they sent an email to tell you your paper was in the printing queue. Anxiously waiting for my email though to say we're in some sort of new queue.

Have a great day everyone.

EAWaterloo

Hi,

Does anyone know how long is takes from sending the passport to Ottawa for landing visa issuance until getting it back from them?

I have sent my passport 40 days ago and still waiting ... Is there anyway to follow?

Thanks

vinegarboy

Happy to be able to report that my COPR letter arrived in this morning's mail. So in summary: ~three weeks to receive my AINP document last November, then ~nine months of federal processing until I received COPR from CIC/CPPO. Yippee!

milinky21

congratulations! Not bad, 9 months of processing. Just out of interest how long did your letter take to arrive from your application changing to 'decision made'?

Congratulations again!

vinegarboy

Hi, In answer to your question, it took nneteen days from the time that 'Decision Made' appeared on my eCAS until COPR arrived in Edmonton.

milinky21

Thanks for letting me know. Good luck with your 'landing'.

milinky21

PR arrived today. Time to celebrate with some bubbly. Keep the faith everyone, it might be a long time in coming but it sure feels good when it arrives.

Siouxie

Congrats!!

vinegarboy

Lessons learned.

In sincere gratitude to the collective intelligence of the British Expat Forum (which has freely afforded me the confidence, by browsing past posts contained herein, to tackle this whole Canadian PR thing ‘lawyerlessly’ thus far), the chief lessons that I’ve learned (and which I can hope might be of some use/interest to someone else on here) are as follows:

(1.) I learned that each applicant’s file is apparently typically assigned to a particular case-officer at CPP-O, who’ll have a workload-scheduled “Bring Forward Date” (i.e., when s/he’ll typically get around to looking at any one particular file again) of around about every 30d or so (per case-file). So, when drafting an e-mail to CIC (i.e., to inquire/query/remind/protest/complain/nag/etc.), I found it well to remember that one’s inquiry apparently gets forwarded (i.e., by virtue of the ref. #s that one has to provide in the heading on any communication with CPP-O) through to one’s respective creature (dragon or doe), upon whose ‘good side’ one obviously wishes to remain throughout the entire process. So carefully drafting and then ‘sleeping on’ e-mails that I was going to be sending to CPP-O, as things/issues arose, is what I did, and thus I gently ‘jollied’ the unseen fellow along most courteously (while absolutely refraining from remarking on any obtuseness or the poor use of English that I received in his replies).

(2.) I learned that the current expected “17-months” clock of processing-time at CPP-O is actually supposed to start from the date of CIC’s / CIO’s / CPP-O’s first notice(s) of official receipt of (i.e., their AOR notice(s) for) one’s PR application. Luckily, my clock only had to run for nine (9) months (late-January to early-October, this year), but it could’ve likely been a month or two less than that even, had I been able to anticipate my third ‘lesson learned’ (below).

(3.) If I had to do the whole process over again, I’d still send in my Application to CIO sans my three police certificates, but then I’d send in all 3 of my police certificates in one couriered bundle (i.e., keeping all 3 of my police reports bundled together) later on (i.e., so as not to risk having them reach their respective 12mth expiries before my Application could be processed through to its conclusion at CPP-O). Knowing what I know now (and based on the ‘missing all three; you’ve got 30d to provide all’, then the ‘have found two, but still missing one, which you’ve now got 30d to provide’, followed by a meek and unapologetic ‘have found the missing one’ of the police reports scenario that I went through with CPP-O back in the summer), I certainly wouldn’t recommend sending each police report to CPP-O separately as I did (operating back then on the now clearly erroneous assumption that either the filing clerk/intern or the case-officer himself would’ve had the least care or gumption to collate my three individual police reports together within, or to make any uninvited effort to search for any as appeared to be missing from my file, in which they’d all 3 lain for several months, but separately).

(4.) I think I learned the value of spending the extra time/paper/ink necessary, right from the start of the whole form-filling process, in order to expand fully upon the short answers/responses filled-in on the original PR Application documents/package; which policy I pursued from the ‘make it as easy as possible for them to understand/grasp’ viewpoint, right from the start (i.e., pre-CIO), concerning my background, schooling, work experience, reasons for moving/relocating, etc.

Regarding the AINP, I can say that I experienced an absolutely sterling performance by the Alberta PNP case-officer (Edmonton, AB), who was just as efficient, as promptly e-mail responsive, as knowledgeable, as polite, and as helpful on the phone as one could possibly wish for, and who only took about three (3) weeks to process and to ultimately approve (following one query back to me for one point that she wanted to have clarified concerning the frequency of international travel) my Application for AINP (Employer-driven stream).

Even though I had one less-than-stellar and quite a frustrating/delaying experience with CPP-O in the summer, at least I eventually received ‘Decision Made’, and then my COPR shortly thereafter, in only about half of their currently-advertised ‘processing time’ for PNPs.

Anyhow, good luck to everyone on here that’s hurrying-up and waiting for their e-CAS pages to alter, and/or for their COPRs to arrive. It’s certainly been a nerve-racking and at times an exasperating bureaucratic process, ever-wondering at night if maybe one might’ve made a dumb/costly mistake somewhere, or perhaps (being lawyerless) have missed something crucial. In the end, one evidently just has to be patient with their plodding and uninspiringly bureaucratic step-by-step ‘bring forward date’ process, rather than expecting the creature to show the least desire to clear his desk of what ought to (and to a private-sector contractor would) be a ‘straight-shot’ application.

My journey to Canadian PR via AINP (no immigration lawyer retained at any stage).
09/2010: TWP #1 (1yr).
10/2011: TWP #2 (1yr).
10/2012: TWP #3 (2yrs, having ticked ‘Temp. with intent to perm.’ on LMO).
11/2012: AINP (~3wks to be processed/approved in Edmonton, AB).
01/2013: PR Application sent to CIO, Sydney, NS.
02/2013: AOR e-mails arrived same day from both CIO & CPP-O.
02/2013: U.K. Police Clearance Report couriered (signature) to CPP-O.
02/2013: Australian Police Clearance Report & Driver Record couriered (signature) to CPP-O.
02/2013: Medical requested by CPP-O.
03/2013: Medical done in Seattle, WA.
04/2013: U.S. (FBI) Police Clearance Report couriered (signature) to CPP-O.
05/2013: e-CAS says Medical results have been received.
06/2013: RPRF payment requested by CPP-O.
08/2013: e-CAS switched from ‘Application Received’ to ‘In Process’.
10/2013: e-CAS switched from ‘In Process’ to ‘Decision Made’.
10/2013: COPR document arrived (regular mail).
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Dorftrottel

I think you more or less have the procedure wrapped up for anyone contemplating trying it on there own. Of course every case is different. Personally I would advise anyone to steer clear of lawyers unless of course you have particular difficult/complex issues. The forms were generally easy - it just takes time and a bit of double check then check again to make sure you have not missed anything.

The hardest time is the wait, especially when you feel that people are jumping in front of you. For me the wait was getting too long and I had to make a decision to email them and risk p*****g them off or just waiting. Eventually I sent a carefully drafted email enquiring if I had missed anything/or if they needed anything else. The next day - 4 days later decision made and 5 days later COPR.

But yes - save some money do it yourself - ask the Forum if not sure and prepare to grow a beard waiting!

DT