Hi there,
I'm struggling to find information on this, and I'm hoping I'm just panic-ing for no reason
, but I got my PPR last week and assume I get my COPR within 6 weeks. I sent my docs to Ottawa hours after getting the email requesting them.
However, based on what I've been able to find even as someone currently in Canada (on a 3 year work permit, British passport), I still need to wait to get my PR card after my COPR and that takes, at the moment 49 days.
Even if that's including weekends, unless I'm extremely lucky, I won't get my PR card before mid-May when I leave the country for a few weeks. This isn't really a trip I can cancel without losing a ton of money and also messing up the friend I'm travelling with. The trip's been booked months, I think before I even submitted my initial documents requesting an ITA (September).
If this was pre-eTA days I'd be happier to take a punt that Moscow would see my British passport and let me board a plane to Canada and I could probably get in. As my work permit is valid until 2017.
However in these eTA days I may not get on a plane without having an eTA linked to my passport, and getting an eTA while a PR is I imagine, unlikely to happen. I don't see a COPR saying "not good for entry" convincing anyone.
I looked at changing my flights to get into the US and crossing the border on foot at Niagara or the Ambassador bridge, or having someone pick me up (private vehicle), but this is not an ideal - nor cheap solution.
I'm struggling to find information on this, and I'm hoping I'm just panic-ing for no reason
, but I got my PPR last week and assume I get my COPR within 6 weeks. I sent my docs to Ottawa hours after getting the email requesting them.However, based on what I've been able to find even as someone currently in Canada (on a 3 year work permit, British passport), I still need to wait to get my PR card after my COPR and that takes, at the moment 49 days.
Even if that's including weekends, unless I'm extremely lucky, I won't get my PR card before mid-May when I leave the country for a few weeks. This isn't really a trip I can cancel without losing a ton of money and also messing up the friend I'm travelling with. The trip's been booked months, I think before I even submitted my initial documents requesting an ITA (September).
If this was pre-eTA days I'd be happier to take a punt that Moscow would see my British passport and let me board a plane to Canada and I could probably get in. As my work permit is valid until 2017.
However in these eTA days I may not get on a plane without having an eTA linked to my passport, and getting an eTA while a PR is I imagine, unlikely to happen. I don't see a COPR saying "not good for entry" convincing anyone.
I looked at changing my flights to get into the US and crossing the border on foot at Niagara or the Ambassador bridge, or having someone pick me up (private vehicle), but this is not an ideal - nor cheap solution.
