I also sent my photo to the office around June 30th, and they received it on July 2nd according to Canada Post tracking system. But I linked my PR card application to CIC on August 13th.No. The processing of your card does not depend on linking it to your CIC account. It is in fact this step is not even needed. Your card will get processed anyways. Linking the card just helps you to track the progress if you want to. If you click on "check full application status", it will show submitted date as your PR approval Date.
But in my case, when I click "Check Full Application Status" from CIC, it only shows me my submission date as June 17th which is my CoPR date.
Is this right? Shouldn't it be July 2nd, not June 17th?