Hi everyone. I've been reading posts in this forum periodically throughout my PR process and just wanted to share my own experience!
CEC stream, living in Canada for the past 2 years and 5 months, British citizen.
AOR: Dec 24th
ADR: February 5th. Request for detailed breakdown of travel dates 2013/12 – 2015/09. I was travelling around the world for a year and a half and they asked for dates, cities I stayed in and accommodation details for where I stayed.
Medicals Passed: February 8th
ADR: February 14th. I had to have an Australian police check done as I lived there for longer than 6 months. My police check came back with "no disclosable court outcomes", which means there is no record against my name, no offenses, therefore no disclosable court outcomes. The letter from CIC asked me to send the "disclosable court outcomes" (which there were none). I believe whoever read my police check didn't understand the language and presumed it meant there was an offense against my name, there is not.
Eligibility review: May 8th (showed after application was approved).
Background check complete: July 23rd (showed after application was approved).
August 29th: PPR
Passport scans & photos sent to CIC Ottawa: September 10th.
COPR received in the post: October 2nd.
Interview email request sent: October 3rd.
Interview confirmation email: October 5th.
Interview date: October 11th at the Etobicoke office.
I had a 2 year open work permit that was valid until May 20th 2019 - I had to request an extension to this as I had to leave the country in August to attend a wedding. My work permit application extension was submitted April 7th and approved July 11th.
I actually got in touch with my local MP's office here in Toronto as my application had no movement from February 14th and I needed either my work permit extension or my PR application approved in order to travel in and out of the country. They helped hugely by contacting immigration and getting my application moving.
All in all, this was a very stressful experience so I am glad it is over! It was very frustrating living and working in the country, paying tax and other expenses and hearing nothing on my application. Anyway, all that stress is over thankfully.
Sorry for such a large amount of text but I hope this was useful to someone. Any questions please feel free to ask! Good luck to all those still waiting and congratulations to the others in my position, enjoy Canada - it is a great country to live in
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