"essential" is very subjective, there are some people like my parents, they had wrapped up their life back in their home country. Sold property etc. IT IS essential for them to come. if they do not come it's more hardship for them. because it will take another couple of years for them to get PR again. they can't even come on visitor visa because it gets cancelled when you get PR visa.
COPR and coronavirus
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some people quit their job, sell their car etc etc. it becomes essential for them to travel.
It's not really subjective. Essential means to maintain trade/supply/a functioning country/etc. Your parents landing doesn't fall under that umbrella.
Not sure what you mean about it taking a few more years. Provided you follow the instructions from IRCC, they won't have to reapply and should be able to land at some point after the ban is lifted.
By June 30th, Canada will be the new Europe. It's pointless to introduce such a drastic travel ban at this late stage when community spread has already been in action for some time. My worry is at that stage they will panic even more and extend the travel ban causing needless anxiety. I hope the vaccine is ready sooner than later.
DO you represent IRCC? Can you guarantee it will be resolved with in a reasonable time (a couple of months). IRCC has a very bad reputation. They even cancelled a backlog of applicants once, people who were waiting for PR a few years. I do not trust them when it comes to clearing backlog.
Originally it took my parents 2 years from submitting their application till getting PRV stamped. it took them almost an year after medical exam. That's why IRCC gave them only a month to land and we got stuck in this mess.
What makes you think that next time their medical is requested it will not take them another year to stamp PRV on their passport? it will actually take much longer because of the backlog.
IRCC will resume their normal processing at the end of this year. They even closed their call center indefinitely. Who knows when they will return.
Got a response of my webform where I clearly asked whether CoPR is not considered a PR and so is included in the travel ban and IRCC gave a vague response.
I don't understand why can't these IRCC people just say outright CoPRs are banned from travel. It was a simple yes or no question.
Even after approving people for PR, they have created this limbo state of CoPR then why can't they just include this in their official orders and statements rather than hiding it behind "subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act".
I don't understand why can't these IRCC people just say outright CoPRs are banned from travel. It was a simple yes or no question.
Even after approving people for PR, they have created this limbo state of CoPR then why can't they just include this in their official orders and statements rather than hiding it behind "subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act".
what is the actual response you got ? we have raised several webforms for our parents, not response at all.
Hello, Currently I am in US(Indian citizen). As per new guidelines came today, it seems like people who are in usa, are allowed to travel via land border when the ban is over particularly for land border. I have tried to call IRCC today but it didn’t went through so I called CBSA and they just gave me random answer that as of now they are not having any updated information. So I am very confused. Did anyone get reply from IRCC or CBSA?
Do you represent IRCC? Can you guarantee that it will take much longer and that IRCC won't resume normal processing until the end of the year?
The FSW cancellation was something completely different, so I'm not sure why you are referring to it.
A medical request doesn't mean that processing is done, so it is quite normal for an app to take a while after the medical. Their processing is done now and assuming people will just need to update their medical, it is a simple process to re-issue documents.
they have made it clear on their website that one will need new criminal, security and passport check along with medical. so it just seems like a new application processing.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=38952&lang=en
Non-application
3 Section 2 does not apply to
(b) an immediate family member of a Canadian citizen or of a permanent resident as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act;
They say that this travel ban is non-applicable to immediate family member of a Canadian citizen or PR.
COPR (thru spousal application) is the only thing my husband has now since they cancelled his TRV by the time he got his COPR/PRV.
Now, how is he gonna land if not as a PR?
Do they only allow immediate family member with TRV specifically to enter Canada? (saying Landing as a PR is not essential)
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yes you can fly. refer to non applicant point 2 in link - https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=38952&lang=en