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jegadhish90 said:
@all,

A quick question to you, I received my PPR request e-mail (FSW-inland) on September 8th and I have sent in my passport on Sep 12th, it has reached Ottawa office on Sep 14th(by tracking via Canada post).

As of today (Sep 16th), while logging onto my CIC account, there is no update mentioning the Passport request received on September 8th nor my passport reaching the Ottawa office. Is this normal? Is there way to track the updates on my profile.

The next update will be that you case is closed and your application has been approved! :)

No need to worry .. a few more days to go and you will have your papers :)
 
tensi said:
Congrats to all who received their passport. Those who didn't yet, trust me you will and don't lose your hair over the delay. You can't do much about it, so there is no point in worrying about something you have no control over (Lesson I learnt over and over in my life).

Now, piece of advice to those who are planning to land by crossing the border and back.

Do not drive to the US border without a Visa hoping that they will easily allow you to make a u-turn to go back to the Canadian border so you can officially land.

If you do attempt without a visa, what they will do is flag your profile as "rejected entry into the US" without any further context to it. How this will impact you is:

1. Whenever you apply for a US visa in future, you will have to put a check mark on "Yes" to the following question in the application: Have you ever been refused a U.S. Visa, been refused admission to the United States, or withdrawn your application for admission at the point of entry? You can't even give a clarification anywhere on the application.

2. If you are somehow successful is getting a Visa, every single time you cross the border, you will need to explain why you were denied an entry into US in the past. They will get you to park your car and go inside the office. The wait times along with this process is just so much freakin inconvenient.

Off course all of this will go away once you get your Canadian passport, but still.....

Hope this helps and gives you a perspective.

Cheers and all the best

After being approved by Singapore and got visa stamping done in Ottawa, I took my mom to Coutts land border in Alberta Friday afternoon to complete her landing formality. The process was so quick and seamless. Since we wanted to avoid busy weekend we decided to go Friday afternoon and both sides were pretty much quiet, even though it is the biggest border crossing in Alberta. We were one of very few passenger vehicles, the rest were cargo trucks at the time.

Quite different from others' experiences, it took us longer at the U.S office than on Canadian side. On the U.S side, we were told to park the car and came inside the building. Officer was nice, after about 20 minutes doing some paperworks on computer (I think their computer system was somehow slower than usual) he came back and gave my mom notice of refusal of admission into the U.S. Without being asked, he told us not to worry as this has nothing to do with our entry records to the U.S, it is an administrative refusal that we need to present to Canada to do the landing on Canadian side tonight. He said you guys can declare "no" if later being asked if ever refused into the U.S. Then he drove his car to escort us back to the U-turn into Canada.

Once on Canadian soil, the frontline officer at the gate asked what we were there for, and took my Canadian passport and my mom foreign passport. He asked typical custom questions about items or cash to declare to which we responded no. He then gave us a yellow paper, asked us to pull over to the front building and come inside with all other paperworks. Friendly, quick and professional.

We went inside, there was nobody in the line for landing, we were the only people (actually just my mom) there at 8pm Friday afternoon. One male officer greeted us warmly and asked if mother can speak English, if not I will need to translate. He was the only immigration officer on duty at the time I guess. He immediately proceeded to the COPR signing process, and asked mom 2 questions printed on COPR, which are "ever been arrested" and "any other dependent children". He didn't ask anything else. He asked us to surrender any residence permits we had. Then he asked me to write down Canadian address to send PR card. Mom initialed on the 2 COPR copies for those 2 questions and signed at the bottom. He then told us to sit and wait. After 5-7 minutes of entering data in the system, he called us back, and very nicely and warmly smiled and said to us "Please tell your mom I congratulate her for becoming a PR today. It's all done now. Expect her PR Card to arrive within 90 days". He stapled her COPR to the passport and told us this paper is her temporary proof of PR. He gave us a paper instruction on how to get SIN and Health Care. By the way make sure you bring any immigration permits you had since they do ask you to surrender at the time of landing.

Our own experience about landing at land border was quite pleasant, quick and easy. The whole process for both US and Canadian side was just about 30 minutes. I guess we came during less busy hours so the officers from both sides were nice and helpful, though I heard some people had very bad and scary experiences with officers at border crossings in Alberta when they try to validate their COPR during busy hours, especially at the Carway POE. I heard officers at land borders are not as friendly as those stationed at airports and they rarely say "congrats" etc., but in our case it was quite different at Coutts.
 
My CIC updated as "application has been approved"
Hope I can receive my passport back and CoPR very soon
 
ImmiToCanada said:
My CIC updated as "application has been approved"
Hope I can receive my passport back and CoPR very soon

Did you receive an update email or just checked randomly in your Mycic ?
 
Wow that's great! Our passports were delivered on Sep 12th too. I hope to see similar updates soon.

Good luck and wishing you receive your passport and COPR soon!


ImmiToCanada said:
My CIC updated as "application has been approved"
Hope I can receive my passport back and CoPR very soon
 
Hi SecularFirst, yes I received an update email on Saturday Eastern Time. I think the update probably occurred even earlier since email notifications from CIC are generally slower. I used to check mycic daily before PPR and I observed previous updates before the advent of email notifications.

My passport was delivered to Ottawa on Sep 12. Return tracker not activated yet.

SecularFirst said:
Did you receive an update email or just checked randomly in your Mycic ?
 
Thank you DOD. Good luck to you and your family as well!

My application only includes myself and that's probably why my application got closed a bit faster :)

DOD said:
Wow that's great! Our passports were delivered on Sep 12th too. I hope to see similar updates soon.

Good luck and wishing you receive your passport and COPR soon!
 
Landed Friday night (actually Saturday morning as it was after 12 that we got our papers) at Rainbow Bridge, Niagara!

Hello Canada! :)
 
Hey Guys,

My passport got delivered to Ottawa on 8th September 2016. I haven't received any update since. Anyone else waiting for their passport too with similar timeline? I saw a couple of people who got their passport request on the same day as me(6th September) already got their passports back. Is this normal?
 
wonder_ponder said:
Hey Guys,

My passport got delivered to Ottawa on 8th September 2016. I haven't received any update since. Anyone else waiting for their passport too with similar timeline? I saw a couple of people who got their passport request on the same day as me(6th September) already got their passports back. Is this normal?

Do not worry its been only just over a week since your passport has reached the Ottawa office. You will need to wait more 1.5 to 2 weeks for receiving your passport back with COPR.
 
wonder_ponder said:
Hey Guys,

My passport got delivered to Ottawa on 8th September 2016. I haven't received any update since. Anyone else waiting for their passport too with similar timeline? I saw a couple of people who got their passport request on the same day as me(6th September) already got their passports back. Is this normal?

It may be longer if you send a passport/ require visa. No visa was required form our countries so was processed sooner in my case.

From waht i have seen it takes 2-3 weeks to get passports
 
PSIL said:
It may be longer if you send a passport/ require visa. No visa was required form our countries so was processed sooner in my case.

From waht i have seen it takes 2-3 weeks to get passports

Thank you for letting me know.
 
Case closed and application approved. I will check for the return envelope tonight :D
 
wonder_ponder said:
Hey Guys,

My passport got delivered to Ottawa on 8th September 2016. I haven't received any update since. Anyone else waiting for their passport too with similar timeline? I saw a couple of people who got their passport request on the same day as me(6th September) already got their passports back. Is this normal?



I am still waiting my got delivered on 9th, nothing changed in mycic yet
 
Honeyaustin said:
I am still waiting my got delivered on 9th, nothing changed in mycic yet

Look like they are closing files today for passports received on Sep 6. So yours might be done in a couple days.