I completely agree with your saying. My passport got delivered on 21st June 2013. It was delivered by Fedex and was signed by someone there; however, I heard nothing progess till july 21st. I emailed them concerning my passport status, and yesterday (25th July) they asked me to confirm my mailing address. Conclusion: my passport was just laying in some corner upto now. This all process is completely random and weird. Let's see how long it takes me to get it back.ronaldoyaronaldo said:Guys you need to relax <---- coming from the most panicking person in this forum
Here is the deal though. They got my passport in February 11th and they returned it on April 4th. We are talking about 7 weeks of waiting. first of all if your tracking code shows that your package was received and signed DOES NOT mean that the proper personnel got it. Mine was received and signed on the 11th and when I emailed them they said that my passport was received on the 22nd! So the calculated time should start from when they actually got your passport out of wherever the heck they keep them initially AND put it on the stack. Second of all it is not that easy to lose people's passports, You send your passport through registered mail, as long as it is received and signed by CIC it is unlikely that they will get lost! It's not like they receive our passports and play Frisbee with themSend a return envelope with your passport, keep checking the tracking number of the return envelope (once your passport is with CIC) and hope for the best. I personally abused the tracking number and Canada Post customer service, it was so bad that the customer service dude told me "Sir please stop calling for this tracking number we have no trace of it yet!". So if there is someone who understands your frustration, anxiety, and panicking, it is moi.
I wish you good luck guys and your are almost there, your passport is on the stack waiting to be penetrated <--- no pun intended
). In fact it was delivered around 2:30PM! To be honest, I was already shaking, wouldn't like my passport to get lost. But now it's home, safe 
katilda said:Hi Guys,
Just want to share my timeline (I've updated the sheet as well):
PPR on July 4 2013
Send PP and prepaid envelop to PO address on July 5 2013
Delivered on July 8 2013 (no idea when Ottawa actually received it, never called them during the process)
Tracker activated on July 24 2013 (around 6PM)
Delivered on July 26 2013
Will do my landing tomorrow at Peace Arch in Vancouver (Douglas Border Crossing in White Rock to be exact) ;D
The funny thing is that according to Canada Post the package was out for delivery at 9:43AM and delivered at 9:46AM (3 minutes!
Cheers,
Kate
and I am still waiting to return it.mm1012 said:Hello, I am new this forum but I really need your help.
my pp was received by ottawa 8 weeks ago
many applicants return their pp within 2-3 weeks or less.....not sure why mine's take so long.
I contacted ottawa 4 weeks ago and they explained me that my application is in queue for finalization but they cannot provide estimate how much time will it take.
I will email ottawa next week but I' really want to contact local MP.
I am single and there is no canadian relative here.
I understand MP is for his/her people, canadian or permanent residence only. of course I am not, just hold a working permit.
can I ask to help my local MP?
keep e-mailing them.
any help/ comment would be great, i am almost stress out, check the mailbox everyday....feel cry every day.
and this is when you start panicking that either you gave the wrong address or they lost your passport... Package was delivered at 2:40 PM (which is 5 hours later from the Canada Post website update. 5 hours of panicking ??? ;D ;D ) after that you'll have to stand in the line and cross the border). we went inside the building and went to the line "C" - for pedestrians. When officer called, he was really surprised that I was walking, so I explained that I was flagpoling. Easy-peasy! He took my passport, entered everything, filled the papers and crossed my US visa (which expired in January). Then he called my BF and entered his info in the system too. And here is the reason your Canadian friends need a passport - for them it doesn't matter if they are crossing or not crossing, they are in the building and need to show an ID. And then he called us last time, handed the papers, docs and a small Canadian flag with "Congratulations". That's it.
katilda said:Hi guys,
I landed on Saturday (July 27) at the Douglas (Peace Arch) Border Crossing in White Rock, BC (Vancouver area) and I just want to share my landing experience with you.
I received my passport back on Friday afternoon. Here is the short story about it: since I sent a prepaid envelope to CPP-O, I saw when my tracker got activated and started checking it every hour ;D on Friday, at 9:46 am, tracking system showed that it was delivered so I called my BF and asked him to open the envelope. But there was nothing delivered!
Anyways, I got it and didn't want to wait any longer. Even though Peace Arch is a pretty busy crossing, especially on weekends, I went there Saturday night anyways (around 8 pm). My BF and I simply drive there and parked behind duty free (there is a right turn to Beach Rd before the duty free building, parking by the Peace Arch park - simply google it because it's the point of no return
My BF is a Canadian so he just joined me in this trip, he didn't do any landing; however, if you are bringing Canadian friends with you - make sure they have passport or drivers license (why? see below).
So we parked and simply walked towards the US Border, passed the box that people drive through, nobody even noticed us and officers in the boxes didn't even try to stop us. Simply, there was nobody around to stop us
Interesting and actually understandable that he didn't give us the papers back inside the building. He asked us to go out and move towards Canada where he met us with the papers and docs, gave those to us and made sure that we were walking back to Canada ;D And we did. Straight towards the Canadian border. Which is not that easy to cross - comparing to US you'll have to go through the box where you will be stopped by the officer.
So he asked us to wait while he finished with one of the cars; took the papers and asked a few general questions like weapons/drugs/alcohol/money/other goods being shipped and brought into Canada. No. We were sent inside the building, line B according to the yellow paper he gave us.
There was a line inside but it was moving really fast and let me tell you, Canadian officers are always so nice. One of them called us, took the papers and asked to sit and wait. Then called me again, I answered NO to the general questions (you can actually see them in your COPR) about being refused to enter Canada, being in prison etc. and signed my COPR and the copy of it and was asked to sit and wait again
Well, since I'm getting married in 3 weeks, he explained what should I do about my PR and other papers after the wedding and name change.
That is it. We went towards the car and returned home to celebrate
The whole thing took me a little bit less that an hour...50 mins or so, from the point I entered the US border building to the point I left the Canadian border building. In total, from applying for BC PNP nomination to the landing day (which means the process is completed) - it took 9.5 months.
For landing I took my passport (with all the work and study permits which have been removed by Canadian officer later), letter of nomination from BC PNP and COPRs (the ones that CPP-O sent to me). No payments neither in US nor in Canada.
I did flagpoling because I knew that sometimes Canadian border asks for the paper from the States (with the refusal to enter). Some people simply go around the arch and come back to Canada without actually going to the States, but I was honest at that point. My visa expired so I just did the whole thing.
I guess this is it... easy and pretty fast 8)
Cheers,
Kate.
