If you have no choice but sending many cases for secondary review and as you see it takes a very long time, you can send those people a temporary PR card which is valid for 1 year so that they do not suffer the consequences of having an expired PR card and if after 1 year your review is not finished yet, send them another temporary PR card.
A SUGESTION TO CIC TO SOLVE THE SECONDARY REVIEW DILEMA
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keesio
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keesio
VIP Member
- May 16, 2012
- 4,795
- 396
- Category........
- Visa Office......
- CPP-O
- Job Offer........
- Pre-Assessed..
- App. Filed.......
- 09-01-2013
- Doc's Request.
- 09-07-2013
- AOR Received.
- 30-01-2013
- File Transfer...
- 11-02-2013
- Med's Done....
- 02-01-2013
- Interview........
- waived
- Passport Req..
- 12-07-2013
- VISA ISSUED...
- 15-08-2013
- LANDED..........
- 14-10-2013
foodie69 said:
Maybe the OP does not have a visa exempt passport
Anyway, supposedly PR cards are now required to board flights, even if visa exempt. This is due to the new eTA requirements. Even visitors with visa exempt passports need an eTA. And since PRs cannot apply for an eTA, they need to show proof or PR status (PR card or PRTD). The exemption is if you have a US passport (which is eTA exempt).
rbrar14 said:
Letting the applicants get PRTD from within Canada is best idea of all. I have emailed and phoned my MP to bring this up to John Mac, but until it is pushed by multiple MPs he won't listen. So, please email and PHONE your MPs this suggestion.
foodie69 said:
rbrar14 said:
As zardoz observed, having a visa-exempt passport no longer works for boarding flights to Canada (few exceptions, such as U.S. citizens).
To be clear: Even PRs with visa-exempt passports NOW need to have a valid PR card or PR Travel Document to board a flight headed to Canada.
Problem with implementing a PR TD from within Canada option is that the only personnel trained to process the PR TD application are those employed in embassies abroad. A whole new department of internal processing would have to be created.
And for PRs with reasons to make repeated trips abroad, such as for somewhat frequent business purposes, having to apply for a PR TD each trip would still be rather inconvenient . . . not as inconvenient as the current situation, but still far short of addressing the problem for many.
There is already an internal process for issuing temporary one-year PR cards, for any PR in Canada with a pending appeal (for either a Departure Order or a denied PR TD), so it would make sense to expand that processing to PR's with lengthy SR cases pending, and who are, of course, IN Canada when making an application for the temporary card.
For PRs who are both abroad, who do not have a valid PR card, and who have a PR card application in SR, the PR TD application to the appropriate visa office abroad is their only option for getting a TD which will allow boarding a flight to Canada. Whatever chance there is to influence IRCC to adopt some option to provide relief to PRs bogged down in lengthy SR, there is much less chance anything will change for the PR abroad.
quasar81 said:
As dpenabill said, getting PRTD from within Canada is almost impossible, because it is the duty of the embassies, but issuing a temporary PR card is very easy for them, because it is CIC who issues PR card within Canada. It is a good idea to contact our MPs, but I am not sure if they can do anything or they do anything for us. However, I'll give it a try.