September 2021 *OUTLAND* SPOUSAL SPONSORSHIP
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My passport request package (Photocopy of passport not original, new photos and required forms has travelled from VFS global in Australia to Canada in 4 business days. I got a text saying it’s arrived at the IRCC office for processing. So I’m nearly done!!!
if I didn’t send my actual passport, they dont need to return it. so my last question is …
what is going to happen with my COPR?? Will it be posted out still? Or just an email attachment?
I have the butterflies!
if I didn’t send my actual passport, they dont need to return it. so my last question is …
what is going to happen with my COPR?? Will it be posted out still? Or just an email attachment?
I have the butterflies!
Dont' understand why they would have sent all the way to Canada.
But at any rate: I think they will send a physical package back to you with the photographs, the only part of this that isn't basically just something printed/that you could print yourself or get electronically (for those with visa waiver passports anyway).
maybe they didn‘t. They sent me text messages a saying It was in Sydney OC, then they were sending it to Sydney OC and something about Sydney IRCC.
Aand I had been speaking to someone in Sydney… I am in perth a long way away so Just assumed it went from Sydney, Aus then on to Sydney, Nova Scotia… I sent my original there… clear as mud?
Photos are needed for the PR card when you arrive in Canada, you will give to the CBSA officer while 'landing' formalities are completed. I presume/believe eventually they will move this old-school system to using electronic photos (they could scan them on receipt). But at present they are kind-of sort-of doing this using the old paper system they have had forever.
For the virtual landings inside Canada photo submission is electronic, and the printing of PR cards no longer uses the physical photographs (they're not glued to the cards), so this is all just anachronistic - or, if you prefer - they havne't got around to devoting resources to 'digitize' the process.
[This is a classic problem of digitizing an inefficient process - sure, it might cost more to keep running the old process, but it's not just money, they'd have to devote staff and management time that know the processes well and how everything works to digitize. So it'll just keep going until it moves up the priority list some day in future. Or, even more likely, when some other change in the system removes this part of the process entirely - like maybe someday they could decide to just stop printing physical visas inside the passports as they do now. It sounds crazy, but there are other types of documents for entry to Canada that don't require inserting a visa - and of course even now you technically need the visa and the copr so redundancy there.]
They will ask the questions that you provided in the application
Whatever u have mentioned in the application , just go through that , and they might call you too , so just keep an eye on phone ,
Make sure u and ur spouse r on same page whatever u answer, and ur answers should match the info that u gave them in application
I just received the same email just like yours today ...since I only need an ETA which I don't have to submit my physical passport, just a photocopy of the photo page. Maybe IRCC will just email the COPR or send the hard copy via VFS for me to pickup.
Sept 16, 2021 - Application Received
Dec 24, 2021 - AOR1
Mar 15, 2022 - SA Approved
Mar 21, 2022 - Eligibility and Background verification Completed
Mar 22, 2022 - Pre-Arrival Received
Mar 25, 2022 - Biometric Passed
Apr 19, 2022 - Medical Passed
Apr 24, 2022 - Police Cert Received
Sept 16, 2022 - COPR document number updated in portal
Sept 26, 2022 - PPR email received
Hong Kong I guess as I did not received any email mentioning my application has been passed to any VO though but my location is in Hong Kong