Where are you located? I was able to book one for tomorrow in North York, Ontario. I can give you the location if you live nearby.
New Policy for International Students - April 12th, 2021
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Where are you located? I was able to book one for tomorrow in North York, Ontario. I can give you the location if you live nearby.
Just to be safe, I recommend you take it from a professional (as stated in the page linked below) and include their details in the back. Now that you mentioned this, we can write those details ourselves or the photographer has to stamp it or something?
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...grants/pr-card/apply-renew-replace/photo.html
Thank you for the offer! I'm at least two hours away so I don't think I'll be able to make it, plus I won't be able to get a day off so quickly. Thank you anyway!
I got my pictures from Shoppers Drug Mart (they are essential) and they stamped the back. I think it was around $68 for the three of us.
Considering we know that applicants wont be able to apply for BOWP, do we expect IRCC to be upfront about the processing times? Apparently some CEC applications are taking as little as 4 months currently, would processing this eat into that processing capacity? If not, where are the extra processing officers going to get pulled from?
Also, It is ironic how the IRCC have not released specifications for this program but the social media team has given away very important details from people asking questions. I wonder why they wont just update the policy so the SM team can deal with providing interpretations of the rules to people as needed.
Also, It is ironic how the IRCC have not released specifications for this program but the social media team has given away very important details from people asking questions. I wonder why they wont just update the policy so the SM team can deal with providing interpretations of the rules to people as needed.
That's for paper applications, electronic applications would require digital photos, so either like the TRV ones or a digital with PR size specifications
Why would you get hard copies? Uploading and scanning them isn't the way digital photos work..
I just saw that they stamped it, they were unable to give me digital copies because they ran out of USBs. Maybe the stamp doesn't matter per the comment below yours.
I've done both, used scanned copies and digital copies and both worked. The Shoppers I went to didn't have USBs so I had to take the hard copy.
See below CICnews FAQ for this program (https://www.cicnews.com/2021/04/faq...nt-graduates-in-canada-0417879.html#gs.z6neb3).
Are medicals required upfront with the application system?
IRCC is currently trying to extend medicals as much as possible during COVID-19 for those in Canada.
For this group, they will be dividing people into two groups: people who have never done medical and people who have done medical. Those who have done medical should provide proof. It is not yet known how old the medical can be. If you can access an Upfront Medical, you may wish to do so nonetheless.
Digital photos are what you need for electronic applications. This isn't paper based. They want a JPG or JPEG format.
Check this site out, it does it well.
https://visafoto.com/
Here's my theory (I'M JUST SPECULATING, TAKE THIS WITH A SPOON OF SALT): other similar programs such as PNP or the AIPP let you either apply for a BOWP or give you a work permit support letter which allows you to continue working for your current employer until you get PR. If this program doesn't, that means either that they're going to leave thousands of applicants in an immigration limbo, on their own or that they expect short processing times.
It's sounds unlike IRCC to leave people stranded, especially after having helped quite a bit during covid with the PGWP extensions and the visitor to work permit policies. It just doesn't add up. CEC processing times are around 8 months right now because for some reason, at the beginning of the pandemic they "stopped" processing applications and when they resumed processing normally the newer applications and backlogged ones mixed.
So if you stop by the CEC forum you'll see January/February 2021 applicants with simple applications that got COPR in 3-4 months and people from January 2020 still waiting. Current applicants with simple applications have shorter processing times than applicants from 2020.
For this stream, rumours say around 6 months but the requirements are so ridiculous I can't see eligibility section lasting more than 1 or 2 weeks.