Got an email titled
Ready for Visa / Prêt pour Visa, sent at 21:03 Toronto time.
There is no update in my IRCC account and the status is exactly the same as before. (Review of additional documents: The additional documents you provided are being reviewed. Background check: We are processing your background check. We will send you a message if we need more information.)
The email asks for the following.
- Please submit two (2) passport-sized photos taken within the last six (6) months of you and each of your accompanying family members.
- Please submit original passports for:
- You;
- Your spouse/common-law partner (if applicable); and
- All dependent children who will accompany you to Canada (if applicable).
- Fill out the form we have included as Appendix B and enclose it with your passport(s) and photos.
What is strange is that information has been provided in the email for residents of the following countries, although I moved from Singapore to Canada on 15 July while my partner has always lived in the Netherlands for the past year. The information is so as if I had never left Singapore although I have updated the IRCC multiple times about my move to Canada.
- SINGAPORE
- MALAYSIA
- BANGLADESH
- CAMBODIA
- INDONESIA
- THAILAND
- VIETNAM
- BRUNEI/EAST TIMOR/LAOS/MYANMAR/OTHER COUNTRIES (not listed above)
- CANADA
I cannot choose to send my passport to Canada, because the following is required.
If you have a mailing address in Canada and all your accompanying dependents on your application are currently in Canada and plan to be in Canada for at least three (3) months, you may submit your passport(s) and photos to the Case Processing Centre in Ottawa (“CPC-O”).
This is rather stupid. My partner and I will have to send everything to Singapore while neither of us lives there!
It also says the following in the email.
Note: This letter is not a guarantee that a visa will be issued to you.
Is this the PPR?
Also, I have read somewhere that citizens of visa-free countries do not need to send their passports physically. Is it no longer true? Both of us are Dutch citizens.
Finally, should I first ask my partner to send her photo and passport from the Netherlands to me in Canada, and send both our documents together to Singapore, or should we send our own documents separately from Canada and the Netherlands respectively?