So I guess my journey is finally almost over. Got ECOPR yesterday. It was a little tricky towards the end since when I received the first email my spouse was actually not in Canada (but he was scheduled to visit in 2 weeks on a visitor visa). I was really worried responding to the portal 1 email will mess up with his traveling plan, and then he will have to mail the passports and all that from the US. I asked around and decided to not respond to the first email in which I had to declare whether all family members are in Canada until he came to Canada on Oct. 2nd. This seems to have worked very well.
I got portal email a week later and since he 's in Canada when signed in to the Portal, we both declared truthfully we are in Canada.
Got Ecopr on Oct. 17. Really glad we avoided the whole mailing passport business and can activate the PR inland.
Thanks for all the support. As you can see from my timeline, I ve experienced ALOT of frustration and anxiety in the past few years from the beginning of 2018-19 waiting for Arrima to come to use, then repeated request for additional documents in the PR stage. Then comes the pandemic, during which because of the provincial nomination and the PR application I had to navigate not one but 4 different counties and regions to obtain documents (me and spouse come from different countries, and we went to school in countries other than home country and other than Canada...). And all these government divisions had implemented strange limitations during the pandemic to make things even more complex...it was not easy to say the least. I am thrilled this journey is over but wish to leave a record here as to how much mental distress this process has brought to me (and I can only imagine, many of who are like me). The two-stage immigration process in Quebec is so fucked up and the layers of bureaucracy on both levels has made things so bad for immigrations. I hope going forward, as new PR or citizens, we don't forget this.