CoPR not stamped at landing

[MiriamT]

Hmmm, his ECAS never updated (landed July 11). Is this something to be concerned about? It's still just on DM. We witnessed the guard typing in the information however but I read something about a guy who's PR was never activated because the guard forgot.

e-CAS is often outdated. If it'd give him peace of mind, he could call CIC and check with an agent.

 

[keesio]

Well, my only point of concern is that this COPR may not be of use at present when I already received my PR card(today) -I can use my PR card to get health insurance- but in future it definitely is of importance as the most important proof of landing. If you apply for citizenship it is needed and in very far future when you are about to retire you are going to need it again.

If it is signed and dated by the officer, I wouldn't worry about it. I applied for citizenship 2 years ago with a COPR with no stamp (as far as I can remember) and it wasn't an issue. My COPR did look a lot different though (it was basically a printout from a old dot matrix style printer).

 

[screech339]

They would not accept my wife's COPR for OHIP.

That is strange and unusual. The day my wife landed, we went straight to Ontario Service to covert her temporary OHIP (only good for 1 year) to a regular OHIP (renew every 5 years). We had no issues. They looked at my wife's COPR and then issued a regular OHIP number without a second thought.

 

[Galano1213]

I am curious as to when and how you receive the CoPR is it sent by mail to the sponsor in Canada to give to the spouse or emailed?

 

[Aquakitty]

I am curious as to when and how you receive the CoPR is it sent by mail to the sponsor in Canada to give to the spouse or emailed?

Ours was addressed to the applicant. We live together so the address was the same, but they'd send it to the address you (the applicant) indicate you want your correspondence sent to on the application. It would not do much good to send it to the sponsor for outland.

 

[Majromax]

The CoPR also has the applicant's photo physically attached via a glue-patch. Although it is now printed on plain paper rather than fancy immigration paper, it isn't something that can be wholly electronic.

 

[spaceexp]

I am curious as to when and how you receive the CoPR is it sent by mail to the sponsor in Canada to give to the spouse or emailed?

Since the CoPR is meant for the applicant, it is always sent to the applicant. Sponsor has nothing to do with it.

 

[canvis2006]

The COPR by itself is not a document to support identity, or to establish "address", for that you would need other docs such as bank statement, ontario photo card, or driver's license, etc as well as passport.
Then they can look at COPR and see that person has obtained PR status.

If missing stamp is causing issues, take it to the airport, see CBSA, and ask for it to be stamped (with date of landing).
It's not that hard, CBSA will help you in stamping if its a big issue for you

 

[OntarioBound]

I'm looking at my wife's COPR right now. There is no stamp. The officer did sign and date it. And he filled in (hand wrote) some of the fields (like flight number, port of entry, address in Canada, etc). But no stamp.

She used this COPR to apply for SIN and OHIP. She had no problems with either.

Same with mine too - My officer has done what your did but no stamp. I got the SIN and OHIP is in process now (Ontario).

 

[blueangel371115]

Same with mine too - My officer has done what your did but no stamp. I got the SIN and OHIP is in process now (Ontario).

Me too. Hand signed and dated with a stamp in my passport and on my b4. They even wrote 'terresire' on the flight number slot ( I flag poled in Quebec).

 

[Bilkish]

It wasn't really a problem, I was just wondering back then what was the difference. It turned out it doesn't matter if it was a stamp or hand signature, I got my SIN with no problems.

I am not sure about OHIP, since I am in BC, and here you cannot get your BC services card without a PR card, they don't accept CoPR. They did accept the CoPR with that signature to enroll me into the medical services plan, though (because to get the BC services card you first need to enroll into MSP). Sorry...

Hello..I have same issue in British Columbia, they not accept my copr which has no signature of officer, my msp wants signature, how to go about ,plz help.

 

[Badge1]

Hello..I have same issue in British Columbia, they not accept my copr which has no signature of officer, my msp wants signature, how to go about ,plz help.

Go to YVR airport's Immigration Officers and have them sign it.