As I prepare for disappointment in a few days, I'm facing a dilemma. I will be moving to a different country in about 2 weeks. I'm trying to avoid issues and rejections for random BS, so is my best bet to move, then get my home country's PCC, then submit my application? My thinking is this way I avoid change of address issues.
Question is, will this affect the application since my profile has my home country, and I will submit my application from a different country?
First of all congrats and all the best for your new ventures.
Answer to your question.
Change of address wont affect your processing time,It was validated by leagal falcon because I asked this question a lot of time s in the forum(you can look at sep 2020 aor thread there he says that) ,This is what I did I left US on 22nd march reached India 23rd and submitted webform on 24th.I got RFV on April 11th and I had ADR for US PCC ,I uploaded it on march 18th and left .
They responded to my webform after I got RFV and they didnt care much.
Now If you are applying from India 99.99% unless you are PNP will go to NDVO,I am sure you dont want that,even before pandemic they were garbage.So in your case change in COR is good.
If you are in India ,You can submit application from india and if you are staying in your new address more than 6 months (which you will) after reaching there you can notify them through webform as your application will be locked in the time of AOR and noone knows what they are going to do in next 6 months.