Once again, this is so unfair with regards to those who got transferred to LVO rather than CPP-O
I am from a different LVO but my parents home country also prohibits passport mailing to /from the country so i might end up with a similar problem when the time comes ...
So far, unfortunately, I have not heard of anyone with cases in LVOs (not Ottawa) and parents visiting in Canada who were able to somehow arrange passport submission (for visa 'stamping' ) to Seattle (rather than to home country). If anyone was able to get this done I would love to hear about this (in all examples I encountered, parents ended up going back to submit passports).
I wonder if there is any explicit operational manual prohibiting this...