Thanks. My medical has expired for months already, I'll see how things go.
The only thing Marco would intervene for is to make it easier for CEC/inland. Fuck FSWs. This is not hyperbole, there was recently official talk of how it's discriminatory to only pick the top scoring candidates. Some TR to PR people were complaining about how it's so tough to get a good IELTS score to qualify. Bud if you've lived in an english speaking country for years and still struggle to get an IELTS score just to qualify (forget about an actual good score), that's on you and whatever excuses you make to justify your laziness.
Can you explain this with more clarity ? Is landing after COPR and a 'soft landing' different ? Is COPR validity different for every case ?
Both are same, soft landing means you get your COPR stamped and activate your PR status and leave the country immediately from the airport itself.
Maybe. But in my opinion it doesn't have to do with the CRS scores. Megadraw showed us that IRCC really doesn't care about how qualified and young the immigrants are (which totally defeats the purpose of skilled immigration that Canada needs). Any CEC app received after Sept isn't likely to be given a PPR before 2021 ends so they can't help meet 2021 targets. So IRCC sees no point in inviting low score CECs this year; they'll soon go back to high-score FSW draws because they'll all go into 2022 targets.
Hope it's because they are preparing to shift the processing capacity to finalize outland applications, although I think it is extremely unlikely.
This whole situation is a mess, and I sure hope you're correct. For now, I'd say that all of us would benefit from giving this a break and waiting until September to see what happens. If nothing changes I guess that some of us will decide to put Canada on the back burner. At the rate this is going I don't even know how my life is going to look like when and if I can land, who knows if moving will still make sense or not.
If learned one thing from IRCC's moves this year, it is that they care about meeting their targets so much, like that silly number means so much to them that they'd even invite grandpas. Based on that, folk who have CoPR/PPR right now will likely land this year because 2021 targets are at risk otherwise. People who get ITA after Sept will likely land in the second half of 2022. I say not bad.
This is the June 21 update: If you hold a valid (not expired) Confirmation of Permanent Residence (COPR) and visa, you can travel to Canada as of June 21, 2021.
Since vaccination will be a prerequisite to be eligible to enter Canada as tourist in September, do you think they'll apply the same to PR applicants? If so, we'll have to wait much longer. I mean recognized vaccine is not always available for overseas applicants. PR applicants are stuck in this weird situation, when students and temporary workers can enter, albeit having to go through quarantine if not vaccinated, PR applicants are just ignored.
