I don't think there is anything to worry about. For many who have expressed their unwillingness to travel, their application status has changed from 'approved' to in "progress". Although they did not get such an explicit mail, but it is apparent that their files will be reopened again. Many will be asked to re-medicals while other might recieve extension of medical/copr by default depending on individual case, country and local visa offices's decision. There is nothing to worry.
COPR and coronavirus
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My landing in Canada has been complete and I just wanted to share my experience.
The country of my residence, Oman, has closed its airspace to commercial travel since March 29. I was patiently waiting for the restrictions to be lifted. When I realised that it may go well beyond my copr expiry date, July 2. I decided to take a different route.
My nationality is Iranian and Iran never closed the air borders since the panedemic, in spite of being one of the hard hit countries. There were weekly flights for Iranians living in Oman. I took one of these repatriation flights and only after two days I flew out to Toronto with Qatar Airways from Tehran. My point of entry was Montreal and everything went much smoother than I expected. It took the officer about 10 minutes to process my permanent residence. As for the 14-day isolation, they only asked if I had a plan and if there was anyone to help me with food. I had printed my Airbnb reservation but the officer did not specifically asked to see it.
Overall, the journey was long but well worth it. I hope all of you who need the extension in this group will get it and do the landing soon.
The country of my residence, Oman, has closed its airspace to commercial travel since March 29. I was patiently waiting for the restrictions to be lifted. When I realised that it may go well beyond my copr expiry date, July 2. I decided to take a different route.
My nationality is Iranian and Iran never closed the air borders since the panedemic, in spite of being one of the hard hit countries. There were weekly flights for Iranians living in Oman. I took one of these repatriation flights and only after two days I flew out to Toronto with Qatar Airways from Tehran. My point of entry was Montreal and everything went much smoother than I expected. It took the officer about 10 minutes to process my permanent residence. As for the 14-day isolation, they only asked if I had a plan and if there was anyone to help me with food. I had printed my Airbnb reservation but the officer did not specifically asked to see it.
Overall, the journey was long but well worth it. I hope all of you who need the extension in this group will get it and do the landing soon.
Very happy to share here that we finally managed to land before our CoPR expiry. Our port of entry was Toronto, let me briefly share my experience.Thank you the uncertainty is killing! We really hope to land before the CoPR expires (some do not and it’s all good). We had resigned from our jobs and travelled home to be with our family before moving to Canada and then lockdown happened!
I am so happy you made it and i can imagine your joy. When the airspace opens, we will do the same, first flight out! Meanwhile, i rejoice with the ones who have already made it
We travelled on a charter flight from my country since the airspace is still closed.
Arrived on the 16th of June, except for the long queue (99% of the people we flew in with were CoPR holders) the experience at the immigration was rather smooth.
The questions asked were:-
1. As per the CoPR- if we have ever been convicted of any crime or denied entry into Canada
2. How much money we had brought in cash
3. If we knew that we had to quarantine. The officer didn’t ask or check the proof of the same.
We don’t have a permanent address yet as we rented an AirBnB so we have to update that online when we do.
We then proceeded to fly to Calgary which was our final destination.
We are so thankful that we managed to get here as we had hoped. When i wrote the above post we didn’t even know how we were going to do it but God is so good and He made a way.
Praying for everyone who wants to to land and believe that you will make it.
God bless.
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