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.
So keep calm and stay hopeful guys, I trust everyone will get extension sooner or later. Good luck to everyone!
- 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.
this is the best post i have ever seen
finaly one extantion case
it seems that it will be an athurization to travel
i hope all our cases will run fast as yours
all the best for u
plz share ur landing experience when u land