Wait till mid of May. You will get a generic response for you enquiry right now as you have plenty of time for you CoPR expiry. Select the VO from dropdown menu while raising webform. If you have a doubt then raise two webforms one for Abu Dhabi and one for Riyadh if both are showing up in dropdown menu.
COPR and coronavirus
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Thanks for the reply. But how
Thanks for the reply. I understand your point The problem here is that due to lockdown etc it's so difficult to plan for a permanent move. The situation there isn't great which makes it even harder to hard land right now.
Also for hard landing you have to quit your job which in these uncertain times is so damn risky. It's such a chaotic situation and soft landing seems to be the only logical way out.
Thanks for the reply. I understand your point The problem here is that due to lockdown etc it's so difficult to plan for a permanent move. The situation there isn't great which makes it even harder to hard land right now.
Also for hard landing you have to quit your job which in these uncertain times is so damn risky. It's such a chaotic situation and soft landing seems to be the only logical way out.
My Parent's Permanent Resident Application is approved and they have been granted a immigrant visa with a validity date till May 09, 2020. Considering the outbreak due to COVID-19, travel restrictions imposed by India/Canada they may not be able to travel with in May 09 time frame unless the condition improves. In case if condition does not improve, Will they be granted a new immigrant visa with an extended date so that they can fly and complete the landing process during a later time frame once the conditions are suitable for travel?
Who told you that AIR INDIA Flights are cancel till 30 April. I have booked it for 18th April but have not received any mail or message for canceling Flight. I have Flight Mumbai -Delhi -Toronto.
@Islander216 @tobs Air Canada denied me. I went with my CoPR which is valid till Apr 27th. They called someone on the phone and said unless I have a wife or child I cannot travel. This was on March 28th 2 days after the exemptions were announced.
This is what worries me- even though the exemptions are in place there seems to be some lack of awareness among the airlines.
I wrote to IRCC explaining what happened and asked for an extension. They said they will forward my case to the relevant department. However I would ideally like to go before April 27th.
Do you know of cases where they allowed people to board? I am going in from the US.
This is what worries me- even though the exemptions are in place there seems to be some lack of awareness among the airlines.
I wrote to IRCC explaining what happened and asked for an extension. They said they will forward my case to the relevant department. However I would ideally like to go before April 27th.
Do you know of cases where they allowed people to board? I am going in from the US.
Oh man, I'm really sorry to hear that.
Am not sure what your best course of action is, perhaps you could try clarifying with airlines again.
There are at least two people on this thread who have successfully flown from the US : @MelCan2020 and another user @ryan1990
Good luck and keep the thread posted!
June is still many weeks away. Maybe you should hold on a little bit longer till like say end of April or early May to see how the whole situation goes. I am positive it would be a whole better situation by then.
Hi, Thank you for sharing your experience and sorry to hear about the incorrect decision the check in staff made! Few clarification questions, so we all are better prepared and perhaps overcome a similar denial by airport staff / airline staff. (Assume you may have read several posts describing how applicants were challenged by airport staff, presented the supporting exemptions etc and much back and forth later and also after those staff/supervisors making calls back to Canadian authorities, these applicants were able to fly. )
- Which airport was this?
- What was the flight route (direct or connections etc)?
- How much of a lead time did you have - to be able to escalate it to senior supervisors / managers at the check in area/airport manager?
- Were you able to carry print outs of the government of Canada notifications, exemptions and presented those to the staff at the check in counter?
- which staff members denied this - you mentioned air canada - were there any senior supervisors who were called?
- did you interject and insisted that they look up Govt of Canada websites / IRCC websites etc?
- finally did they agree to give you in writing that they are denying boarding despite all those evidence of exemptions?
(in all the stress you may not have asked for it - which is absolutely fine).
Wish you all the best and I have no doubt the extension will be provided! Its just a bit more time and hassle, I suppose.
Regards
Nav
Well, i boarded an Air Canada flight and landed on March 28. So i find this very surprising because there are no qualifications on the exemptions for COPR holders.
The only stipulation is that your PR documents must have been issued on March 18 or earlier.
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I am headed there (the US/ Canada) border on Friday, as my husbands COPR expires Sunday, April 12th. We are going to attempt to cross, despite calling multiple times and them stating it isn't essential travel. We've raised webforms and contacted our visa office via e-mail and haven't heard anything. We "are able to travel" aka in a car, despite being in CT (high risk area) so we don't want to take the risk of the IRCC stating we "could have traveled" and deny an extension. We will have to take the risk of either getting turned away, or isolating in Canada for 14 days (and attempting to cross back) as we have not wrapped up our affairs, and I (as a Canadian) am still on a work-visa here in America.
I'll keep everyone updated.
ANY AND ALL TIPS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
I'll keep everyone updated.
ANY AND ALL TIPS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
Good luck, keep us posted and stay safe.I am headed there (the US/ Canada) border on Friday, as my husbands COPR expires Sunday, April 12th. We are going to attempt to cross, despite calling multiple times and them stating it isn't essential travel. We've raised webforms and contacted our visa office via e-mail and haven't heard anything. We "are able to travel" aka in a car, despite being in CT (high risk area) so we don't want to take the risk of the IRCC stating we "could have traveled" and deny an extension. We will have to take the risk of either getting turned away, or isolating in Canada for 14 days (and attempting to cross back) as we have not wrapped up our affairs, and I (as a Canadian) am still on a work-visa here in America.
I'll keep everyone updated.
ANY AND ALL TIPS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
I am surprised that you have been told it isn't essential travel. I have called twice in the last few days, most recently this morning and both times I was told that I was welcome to drive across as long as I am willing to self isolate. Both times the CBSA agent I spoke with seemed well aware of the exceptions and did not mention anything about not being essential travel. I think you will be fine, good luck!
If you go to Air India website, they are not taking bookings for the month of April, so not sure how did you book. If you booked using agent or travel aggregators such as Makemytrip, Yatra etc....better confirm your booking with them
Based on some other posts on this forum where people have had discussions with CBSA get the impression that their interpretation of non essential travel would be if some told them they were in effect doing a soft landing which is the OPs plan.
If someone was heading for Canada on a one way trip that would be fine given that ultimately is the whole reason for immigrating to Canada and there are veryfew exemptions currently for crossing back and forth the US/Canada border being a new immigrant is not necessarily one of them unless one way.
Soft landings in the current emergency are it seems frowned upon by CBSA and even possibly US CBP for the return although as everyone knows with CBSA/IRCC different agents sometimes are not consistent with a response
The critical thing still remains the 14 day isolation .
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