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[Ugue]

I recently found out that my VO is Accra. From what I gathered, that's not a good thing due to slow processing speed

 

[Jpatel742]

I recently found out that my VO is Accra. From what I gathered, that's not a good thing due to slow processing speed

How you found out this? Via call to IRCC? And do they say that processing is slow now? Your AOR?

 

[Wotsit]

AoR 13th February
BIL 25th February
Biometrics Completed 28th February
MEP 17th March

Had a delay with medicals as two family members were called back for additional tests but we got there in the end.

 

[codeheals]

Feb 1 AOR

Figured out my VO is Edmonton CPC today through webform. Hope things go well.

 

[Ugue]

How you found out this? Via call to IRCC? And do they say that processing is slow now? Your AOR?

Yes via call. I didn't ask that. I just know people in my VO complain about slow processing. AOR is Feb 14

 

[legalfalcon]

Yes via call. I didn't ask that. I just know people in my VO complain about slow processing. AOR is Feb 14

As of now, most IRCC offices are closed and those open are working with essential staff only.

 

[haris_rasheed]

Web form feedback.

AOR 3rd FEb
Eligibility in process
Security not initiated
Criminality valid

VO Ottawa

 

[legalfalcon]

Web form feedback.

AOR 3rd FEb
Eligibility in process
Security not initiated
Criminality valid

VO Ottawa

Going forward, the process will be slow as IRCC offices are only working on essential staff. The expected delays was also notified in IRCC's most recent notification.

 

[Mike@2019]

Going forward, the process will be slow as IRCC offices are only working on essential staff. The expected delays was also notified in IRCC's most recent notification.

What are your guesses? Do you think visa offices outside Canada will operate as normal, especially in those countries with few coronavirus cases? These countries are not on lockdown.

 

[legalfalcon]

What are your guesses? Do you think visa offices outside Canada will operate as normal, especially in those countries with few coronavirus cases? These countries are not on lockdown.

Its not about lockdown. Each country is promoting work from home, which does create less efficient pace, especially when giving access to employees from remote locations.

 

[Workaholic2020]

The page of 90-day extension has expired. This is the most updated page: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/service-delivery/coronavirus/permanent-residence.html

Here I didn't find any specific mention about biometrics. Quote:

Application intake
Intake of new permanent residence applications will continue. Files that are incomplete due to unavailable documents will be retained in the system and reviewed in 90 days.

New, complete permanent residence applications under section 10 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR) will be processed as per normal procedures.

If a new application is missing supporting documentation (associated fees are required), the applicant should include an explanation with their application that they are affected by the service disruptions as a result of the novel coronavirus. The application may then be promoted and reviewed in 90 days. New applications should be promoted in the order they were received, and the org ID should be associated with them when the applicant self-identifies. If the application is still incomplete in 60 days, officers should request the missing documents with an additional 90-day deadline.

Applications found to be incomplete with no explanation provided, or for reasons unrelated to the disruption of services associated with impacts of the novel coronavirus, may be rejected as per section R10, and all fees associated with the application should be refunded to the applicant. The reason for rejection should be unrelated to the disruption of services.


Can I understand this as below:
1. Send a webform to them saying that all USCIS ASC offices are closed, we cannot have our biometrics done in time.
2. The officer will give us a 90-day extension.
3. If we do not send the webform, the application will be rejected.

 

[haris_rasheed]

Going forward, the process will be slow as IRCC offices are only working on essential staff. The expected delays was also notified in IRCC's most recent notification.

yeah and i believe we should hold on to our horses now as well, and give some breathing space to IRCC.

 

[Tom Chacko Kurian]

I and my wife have received our ITA last December AOR- FEB 14.

Medical Jan 9th

Biometrics March 9

I work as a marine engineer on board vessel and have to join work by the 3rd week of April for serving my 6 month contract period which will get over only by October.So if the PPR request comes in between the above period,I won't be available at my country of residence to submit my passport

.Hence can I get the PPR date extended?My wife is the prime applicant. Can you people please guide us

 

[legalfalcon]

Emergencies Act different than ‘any other law of Canada’


With cases of COVID-19 continuing to rise, politicians and legal scholars alike have looked toward a never-before-used 1988 law, the Emergencies Act, to see if it offers any solutions.

As of Mar. 23, unnamed sources told the CBC that “some premiers were eager for a co-ordinated, national response while others were concerned about what invoking the act would mean for local decision making,” after Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland called the Emergencies Act a "measure of last resort.”
But Colleen Flood and Teresa Scassa, legal scholars at the University of Ottawa, argued in a separate CBC piece that provinces may be unable to handle the level of testing and establishment of emergency shelters on their own. Flood and Scassa also argued that the Emergencies Act would allow the government to “use the power to require, use or dispose of ‘property’ in order to access data held by telecommunications companies.”

Leah West, lecturer of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, says she’s not sure that the federal act does allow for data collection the way some provincial laws do. The law would, however, help the government do something like coordinate private industry players in pumping out medical supplies, or manage cross-provincial food supply issues, says West.

West, along with Craig Forcese is the author of a forthcoming chapter of National Security Law, which notes that “In Canada, very few threats reach the magnitude of an emergency. National security law is, therefore, usually regular law, and not a special body of rules applicable only in extraordinary circumstances.”

The way the act defines an emergency is a key consideration in why the act has not been invoked since 1988, says West, as the law specifically focuses on situations that “cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.” Indeed, West says, some of the provincial emergency acts include much harsher fines than the national act.

“They can’t invoke it to tell us the same things the provinces have already told us,” she says.
The federal government also has laws like the Emergency Management Act, Public Safety Act, Quarantine Act, and the National Defence Act at its disposal, while the Emergencies Act has “the threshold for an emergency declaration, albeit in broad terms likely to attract only the most deferential of judicial review,” West and Forcese write.

The definition under the act that would best fit the COVID-19 pandemic is “a public welfare emergency,” which would be invoked by cabinet and comes with its own “basket” of powers, says West. Cabinet would also need to issue regulations to use those powers, often with timeframes attached. The process has a series of checks and balances in place — such as a requirement to consult provinces. The law itself also says that it should not be interpreted to allow “the detention, imprisonment or internment of Canadian citizens or permanent residents within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability,” and that special temporary measures “would be subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights and must have regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly with respect to those fundamental rights that are not to be limited or abridged even in a national emergency.” The act cannot be used purpose of terminating a strike or lock-out or imposing a settlement in a labour dispute.

Nonetheless, in a podcast, West, and Stephanie Carvin note that emergency law can be “dangerous” and “corrosive” to civil liberties, and the proper use of legislation must be necessary and proportional. As their book says, “democracies depend on a system of checks and balances that constrain the exercise of power. Yet, emergencies usually require the swift and resolute exercise of power. While law applicable in normal situations diffuses power, emergencies concentrate it.”

The Emergencies Act, if violated, does allow the imposition a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six months (or both, on summary conviction), or a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding five years (or both, upon indictment.) It also allows for travel restrictions, evacuations and allows the government to demand use of property or distribution of goods.

“Invoking this, there is serious power to restrict our liberties that should only be used for a temporary mandate with a prescribed ending,” she says. “Because the powers under this act are such that the government can do things it could not otherwise do. You want to make this a tool of last resort.”


https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/emergencies-act-different-than-any-other-law-of-canada/328104?utm_campaign=Editorial - Law Times&utm_content=123988428&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-301805746865949

 

[Lufthansa]

My AOR is 1st of April.