Passport is a travel document and supposed to be with the bearer always while traveling abroad, no exceptions for this universal rule.Hopefulguy said:I dont know if there is a hard and fast rule about that. if there is no cogent reason like this for sending your passport then that might be suspicious.
For example, i am for Nigeria and the local VO that issues PR visa is in Ghana. so even if it is my local VO, i still have to send it out of my country by courier.
Even if you manage to get the passports to CIC Ottawa, they may question you about the missing entry/ exit stamps in the passport.