rebecca1986

Hi everyone,

Hope someone can answer what is hopefully my last needed question about immigration! I am a PR in Canada who has sponsored by husband.
My husband is with me in Canada on an extended visitor visa, we paid his right of permanent residence fee last month. On the application, we put my Canadian address down as the mailing address and his Mum's in England as his residential.
Anyway, his Mum called this morning to tell him there was registered mail in his name today from CIC London.... when she opened it up, it was his COPR form.
We were expecting passport requests etc. Apparently, the form tells him to land at a Canadian port before March.
Is this normal for them to just send out COPR without asking for passports for visa's? Little bit worried...

Thanks
Rebecca

Former Lancastrian

Holders of UK passports or countries not requiring A TRV are no longer issued Immigrant visa counterfoils in their passports so its fine.

rebecca1986

Ah, no need for me to worry then! Thankyou, just as well people on here know what's going on as CIC don't communicate very well!

yu mama

Did they ask for a passport photocopy of the bio data pages and stamped pages?..We're waiting for our PR and someone on another forum said that CIC required them to either mail their passport or copies of their passport pages then they'll be sent the COPR

PMM

Hi


Every page in the passport.

helcat12

Although this change to the systems was made at the start of December, we were still sent a request for passports on 21st December by e-mail.

We sent them as requested and they didn't do anything with them!!!
They just put the right back in the post with the COPR paperwork.

Also, when we went to get our SIN numbers changed from temporary ones to permanent ones, the woman there was extremely confused by the lack of counterfoil as they apparently hadn't been told that CIC London was no longer putting this into passports.

So, CIC are also rubbish at talking to their own country's agencies who have to deal with new immigrants.

Former Lancastrian

So, CIC are also rubbish at talking to their own country's agencies who have to deal with new immigrants.

Oh I would say its more of a case of lost in translation, or forgetting CBSA exists when hitting the send button on emails

helcat12

Maybe!

It is certainly causing consternation at Service Canada as their computer systems just didn't have a way to enter us unless we had the counterfoil and also at the banks, who were looking in our passports for it as well and the only thing they could find was the shabby bit of carbon copy that the border guard had to staple into our passports.

Mind you, he did take a lot of care and do a lovely job of folding them up to fit into the passports pages!
Just like an OS map

Former Lancastrian

Mind you, he did take a lot of care and do a lovely job of folding them up to fit into the passports pages!
Just like an OS map

They send us on a weeks course to learn how to do that. Im betting he used a left page of the passport to staple and fold the COPR.

helcat12

A WEEK!!!
TO FOLD?????

He used the right hand page for the OH's passport.

Maybe he did the Advanced Folding course

Former Lancastrian

Canadians are slow learners I got pissed on the Tue, Wed, Thu & Fri

yu mama

Even the blank pages??? that's stupid!! but whatever CIC wants CIC gets

yu mama

So that's 32 pages and we're a family of four, my printer is on the blink so I have to go to Staples to photocopy 128 pages!!!

WOW!!! :$

caleo

My IO obviously got drunk on all 5 days as he didn't bother stapling OR folding!!

gracey1982

Yup. They asked me for every page to be copied and mailed even the blank ones. Mind you 5 days later the ECAS status had been updated so something worked...