Just wanted to give an update to my situation - Maybe somebody else who might have a similar situation could benefit from this.
Received PPR late December 2016 and got my CoPR and visa stamped on the passport soon after. A landing date was given which was May 2017. However I have a situation where my wife is pregnant and the delivery is set to be around 25th-30th June 2017. So basically the two options I had were either (a) do a short landing, come back and have the baby delivered in my home country, and (b) go to Canada and have the baby delivered there. However the problem with (a) was that if we had the baby delivered in the home country, then I would've had to go through the sponsorship route to get my child a PR visa and that would've taken about 12-13 months as per CIC website. The problem with option (b) was that I had commitments in my home country that I could not have gone and delivered the baby in Canada. Long story why, so I won't delve into that.
I was under the impression that once you get a landing date, then that's it. You have to utilize that date or else it expires and you have to go through the PR process all over again. However, apparently, pregnancy is considered an exceptional circumstance and it can extend your landing date indirectly.
I contacted my Visa Office and explained my situation that my wife is pregnant and that the delivery date is very close to our landing date and it will be difficult to manage this. Visa Office was kind enough to review this and gave me an option to land after the birth of my child. (this means my current visa/CoPR expires). They told me that if I plan to land after the birth of my child then I just need to email them and let them know before the expiry of my current visa/CoPR. Once I do so, they will ask me, my wife and child to undergo new medicals. Also we would need to submit bio page(s) of our new child, 4 PP photographs of child, an updated IMM0008 Generic form, an updated IMM5406 Additional Family Information form and lastly Proof of Settlement Funds. They will open placeholders in myCIC account for me to submit these documents. If everything is in order, they will issue all three of us new visas/CoPRs.
So just wanted to put this out there and maybe if someone else encounters this or any other situation, know that correspondence with your Visa Office or Canadian Immigration officers can help you. At the end of the day we are not dealing with computers who follow things to the letter and cannot digress.
Hope it helps.
