@scylla, thank you for your insight! You are correct, I asked around and one of my friends also recently got a US Visa interview early because she just kept checking for interview dates, and a date opened up in April 2022 instead of the 2023 dates. I have since applied for a US Visa and actually just paid today in order to be able to schedule an interview. Here's hoping that comes through!
@armoured I see exactly what you mean. In retrospect, it does seem like that was not the choice I had to make. I had read up on the due process and the differences between a valid PR Card and PR status and how an expired PR card doesn't correlate to no PR status and was aware of these when applying. I think my main hope was that it would be accepted while I was in Canada so that I could travel to Canada as soon as I would get done with my education.
@jakklondon Apologies if I wasn't clear in my post! I had applied for a PR Card renewal in June 2020, and had to come back to Pakistan in September 2020 in order to appear for my final exams. Granted, with COVID they did get delayed to February, but that was happening on a month-to-month basis so when I'd left in September 2020, the scheduled exam dates were supposed to be in October 2020. My PR Card Renewal got approved based on HnC in February 2021. So it wasn't that I left the country after being granted HnC relief as that was only granted in Feb 2021.
@dpenabill You've just about hit the nail on the head. It seems clear in retrospect, but never is while we're going through such situations. Would it have been better had I frozen my education and stayed in Canada for a year and then some to ensure I'm within my RO? I now personally think the benefits of staying within RO far outweigh a year lost in the education pathway, especially considering I wouldn't have been frozen in time and still would have been able to either work / develop other skills / study for other exams. But that's all in the past now.
UPDATE:
My PRTD Application was refused today based on failure to meet RO, and the officer did not find my HnC considerations satisfactory enough to justify retention of my PR. I have the option to appeal my case within 60 days, which I'll likely be doing.
According to the letter, based on the information I provided I am NOT ( yes they capitalised it
)entitled to a travel document and will have to apply seperately asking for permission to travel to Canada in order to attend my hearing. This was confusing to me, as I was under the impression that if I had been in Canada within a year of my application I would be entitled to a travel document (this specific part is also written in a seperate letter they sent to me in the same email) letting me return to Canada until my hearing. It seems like they only considered it from the date of them writing a refusal and not a year from the date that I applied.
As always, highly welcome any input. I should have utilised this forum a long time ago and might have made better-guided decisions if I had.
I'm curious if anyone has any information regarding how long an appeals process is taking these days? I couldn't find many recent threads.
A small part of me is saying to just not appeal and revoke my PR status voluntarily just so I'll be able to get a visa to visit at least, and apply for a skilled worker immigration as a doctor later on in life. I wonder if an appeals process might harm that later on?
@armoured I see exactly what you mean. In retrospect, it does seem like that was not the choice I had to make. I had read up on the due process and the differences between a valid PR Card and PR status and how an expired PR card doesn't correlate to no PR status and was aware of these when applying. I think my main hope was that it would be accepted while I was in Canada so that I could travel to Canada as soon as I would get done with my education.
@jakklondon Apologies if I wasn't clear in my post! I had applied for a PR Card renewal in June 2020, and had to come back to Pakistan in September 2020 in order to appear for my final exams. Granted, with COVID they did get delayed to February, but that was happening on a month-to-month basis so when I'd left in September 2020, the scheduled exam dates were supposed to be in October 2020. My PR Card Renewal got approved based on HnC in February 2021. So it wasn't that I left the country after being granted HnC relief as that was only granted in Feb 2021.
@dpenabill You've just about hit the nail on the head. It seems clear in retrospect, but never is while we're going through such situations. Would it have been better had I frozen my education and stayed in Canada for a year and then some to ensure I'm within my RO? I now personally think the benefits of staying within RO far outweigh a year lost in the education pathway, especially considering I wouldn't have been frozen in time and still would have been able to either work / develop other skills / study for other exams. But that's all in the past now.
UPDATE:
My PRTD Application was refused today based on failure to meet RO, and the officer did not find my HnC considerations satisfactory enough to justify retention of my PR. I have the option to appeal my case within 60 days, which I'll likely be doing.
According to the letter, based on the information I provided I am NOT ( yes they capitalised it
)entitled to a travel document and will have to apply seperately asking for permission to travel to Canada in order to attend my hearing. This was confusing to me, as I was under the impression that if I had been in Canada within a year of my application I would be entitled to a travel document (this specific part is also written in a seperate letter they sent to me in the same email) letting me return to Canada until my hearing. It seems like they only considered it from the date of them writing a refusal and not a year from the date that I applied.As always, highly welcome any input. I should have utilised this forum a long time ago and might have made better-guided decisions if I had.
I'm curious if anyone has any information regarding how long an appeals process is taking these days? I couldn't find many recent threads.
A small part of me is saying to just not appeal and revoke my PR status voluntarily just so I'll be able to get a visa to visit at least, and apply for a skilled worker immigration as a doctor later on in life. I wonder if an appeals process might harm that later on?