Thanks for your reply @ateotia11.hey Hii, i am a resident of MAU too, but citizenship India. Application make with residence country as MAU, i think thats why my application too has not made much traction as compared to other fellow India applicants who are getting ppr quicker. Pretoria is most likely to be our LVO, do you know of any other MAU applicants with aor around december/jan? my aor is jan 11.
As for your question, you get 30 days from day of ppr issue to submit your passport but you can also ask for extension with justification. Also, once you land in europe, will you move within europe as well? I ask because once you get ppr and if you are there, you can ask for where your closest visa office is for passport submission, you can then give it in europe itself and it usually takes 20-30 days to get your passport back with copr issued. hope this answer helps you.
Don't know anyone who applied around Dec/Jan. Yeah I think our VO is Pretoria.
I'm expecting to get the PPR by end of March / start of April which will coincide with my departure from Mauritius. I can probably send the passports from there as you suggested.
However, it might pose a big problem to start life in a foreign country without your passport. Would that even be sensible?