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PPR & COPR --- Anyone from Hong Kong / visa exempt country can help? Thanks!!!

dorabell

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Sep 14, 2015
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Hello everyone! I am really confused now so anyone can help? :'(
Thanks in advance!!!!

I am back to Hong Kong after handing in my CEC application in EE,
and then I have sent an e-mail + filled in the online form to inform CIC my address change.

Then, I received PPR in August, however requesting me to send my passport copies (only amendment pages) + photos inside Canada by the Xpress post. The address on the letter was still the old one, obviously they did not revise my address at all. So I asked my friend in Canada posting the passport copies + photos for me by Xpress post, and at the meantime tried every way to contact the local visa office in HK & CIC about my address change.

2 weeks later I received another PPR! This time they requested me to send my passport copies of every single page + 2 photos to CIC-OTTAWA (again?!). The most confusing part is, they also requested me to send my original passport to the local visa office in Hong Kong but asked me to leave 2 blank pages for visa documentation. The letter however stated that "The total number of passports you are required to submit is ____ ." (They did not write down any number, just a blank line). In the other part of the letter meanwhile saying that I don't need to send my passport if I don't need a visa to enter Canada. So, I need or need NOT to send my passport afterall? I am so confused.

As far as I know, Hong Kong is visa exempt so does it mean I don't actually need to send my passport to the local visa office in HK? I just need to send the passport copies + photos to CIC-Ottawa? If that is the case, how am I going to receive my COPR? Or I should still send my passport to the local visa office even though I don't need to send my passport to CIC-Ottawa?

I am really confused by these 2 letters. Could anyone give me some advice?
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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ECLN

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Toulouse, France
Visa Office......
Paris
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6221
May i know what did you do after, same situation here! Thank you
You should have received a list of documents to submit. Passport holders from visa exempt countries do not need to send their passports, only copies. Copr will be mailed back to you. ETA is issued at the same time, so you do not need to apply for it.
 
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Hammer Tang

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You should have received a list of documents to submit. Passport holders from visa exempt countries do not need to send their passports, only copies. Copr will be mailed back to you. ETA is issued at the same time, so you do not need to apply for it.
Thank you for the INFO