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swack60

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Manbirkaur23 said:
Hi
Did u update them with any details, like your POF or any thing?
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I did send POF (took a new one from the bank), air line credit confirmation (we booked a tickets before CoPR expiration, but couldn't travel due to COVID and the flight also got canceled), and gave details on our settlement plan as well as quarantine plan.

KirtiP said:
Could you also please let us know your VO and date of expiry of COPR
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The VO was Sydney, NS. COPR expired on April 24th.
 
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Tweetbird

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The PR card processing time on IRCC website got updated to 128 days. It was 95 days last week. Looks like instead of decreasing, it's increasing.
 
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Mr.Sidhu

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Hello everyone,
I want to send web form to cic please help me write effective words,bez i saw past posts of someone has asked for plan,job offer etc in Canada.I am ready to travel but need extension of COPR.
 
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crackMBA

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Mr.Sidhu said:
Hello everyone,
I want to send web form to cic please help me write effective words,bez i saw past posts of someone has asked for plan,job offer etc in Canada.I am ready to travel but need extension of COPR.
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you can just mention about your travelling dates, quarantine plans, arrangement for groceries an stuff.
You may receive a generic reply as Delhi Embassy as of no not providing any extensions till normal commercial flights are open
 
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ltmcanada said:
Successful COPR Extension Story:

Hi everyone,

I have been a silent reader in this forum since I started the EE journey in 2019. This site has been of tremendous help to me. I'm now posting for the first time just to share my COPR extension experience and timeline. I hope that you all find it useful too.

  • Current location: Europe
  • VO: Vienna
  • 1st COPR: issued on 17.01.2020; valid until 17.04.2020
  • Obviously couldn't travel because of Covid-19
  • Raised webforms and emailed Vienna VO directly on 20.03.2020 and 15.04.2020 about inability to land before 1st COPR expiry due to travel restrictions and flight cancellations.
  • Vienna VO confirmed via email on 16.04.2020 that they had re-opened my file and that I should inform them when I am ready to travel.
  • Received email notification that my CIC profile had been updated on 17.04.2020. Logged in and saw that the status was changed from Approved to In progress.
  • Randomly logged in my CIC profile sometime in June and noticed that Medical exam was marked passed again on 26.05.2020 (no email notification received though). So this meant Vienna VO extended my medical automatically. But at that time I didn't know for how long.
  • After seeing in this forum different responses people received after raising "ready to travel" webforms, I decided to write directly to Vienna VO (without raising any webform) on 06.07.2020 and asked them to confirm:
    • If I am ready travel now and given that COPR extension is provided, am I exempt from the Canadian travel restrictions? Or because new COPR would be issued after 18th March, I am no longer exempt?
    • What is the new validity of my medical?
  • Vienna VO responded the next day 07.07.2020:
    • "Your understanding is correct that you would meet the Travel Restrictions Exemptions since your initial documents were issued before March 2020.
      We could therefore reissue the documents to you and you would travel with the old and new set of documents to prove that you meet the exemption.
      The new validity of your immigrating documents will be 17 April 2021."
    • In the same email, they sent me a new Ready for Visa/Passport request letter with the same instructions as the one I received before my 1st COPR.
    • On the same day my CIC profile was updated with this letter too.
  • Sent passports + photos on 09.07.2020 to Berlin VAC
  • Berlin VAC received my package and forwarded it to Vienna VO on 13.07.2020
  • Vienna VO received my package on 14.07.2020
  • Today 15.07.2020 Vienna VO issued my new visa which is valid until 07.04.2021 (I saw this when logging in my CIC) and sent it back to Berlin VAC.
  • Now I'm excitedly waiting for Berlin VAC to contact me when they receive the decision envelope and I will pay for their courier service to return it to my address.
So keep calm and stay hopeful guys, I trust everyone will get extension sooner or later. Good luck to everyone!
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Congratulations ! Its really heartening to see a successful extension case, Good Luck!

Hope this happens with the expired / expiring CoPRs in India and other places too. However, I will pause for high hopes at the moment as I feel this has, or would have, some correlation to the understanding between Europe and Canada allowing flights (and hence people movement) between them. Thereby, might be only selective at the moment.

I desperately wish to be wrong ! Hopefully, we should get more clarity in coming days though, with the expectation for air travel to restart between most countries is increasing by the day.

Trusting the vibes!!
 
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Shahanastar

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Tweetbird said:
True, not really too worrying, however it would give peace of mind to just finally receive the PR card.
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Not too worrying of course but certainly peace of mind to have one. In case we need to travel out of Canada we cannot return without a PR card. IRCC hasn't been processing PR card applications since March hence processing time keeps going up.

PRTD processing time is also around 2 months now so imagine someone who might have an emergency and travels outside Canada cannot return for at least 2 months under present circumstances.
 
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crackMBA said:
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you can just mention about your travelling dates, quarantine plans, arrangement for groceries an stuff.
You may receive a generic reply as Delhi Embassy as of no not providing any extensions till normal commercial flights are open
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Normal flights may not happen based on current situation, in fact the rate of infection in India is increasing at high speed , there is high chance they may ban travel like they have done with USA. The embassy should just speed up the COPR extension (use e-visas) so that people can use the VB flights to permanently settle , before things worsen .
 
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