Okay thanks so much for your explanations. So it sounds like the plan is just tourist status, extensions, and just wait for PR.
I didn't know that there was no work permit under the outland process. (I thought I had read on IRCC that there was (
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=177&top=17)). But I also thought (based on forums) that he could have applied for one with the original outland PR application, we just didn't know at the time. Is that wrong?
Anyway, it's becoming clearer to me now, thank you
@armoured. We were getting frustrated bc
- the website is unclear or contradictory
- the IRCC phone line is systematically refusing all questions relating to immigration (wtf?)
- our emails to IRCC are replied with generic unhelpful blurbs,
- local Canadian embassy says all immigration questions will be systematically deleted,
- local visa application centres are closed (and posted phone #s are supposedly incorrect)