PR Card (New/Renewal) Processing Timeline 2020

[Kanedaa]

Hi everyone, thanks for all the updates. I am so frustrated. My wife and I both applied to have our PR cards renewed.
Application received July 18th 2020
AOR received October 21st 2020.
She has received her card 20 days ago (the status showed COMPLETED on her profile). Mine is still showing DECISION MADE and nothing else, and now when I try calling to know more info, there are no agents to pick up the call. I've tried multiple times...

I have experienced this. I would recommend you initiate your call at 7.55 am & you will get thru.
From my experience, they would take action on your application on the 60th day since it went into decision made. I guess their system will flag/escalate if the application is in the status of Decision Made for more than 60 days.
But you keep calling them start of every week. Send web inquiry form every week as well. This is what we did.
Keep us posted.

 

[funloving]

Hi everyone, thanks for all the updates. I am so frustrated. My wife and I both applied to have our PR cards renewed.
Application received July 18th 2020
AOR received October 21st 2020.
She has received her card 20 days ago (the status showed COMPLETED on her profile). Mine is still showing DECISION MADE and nothing else, and now when I try calling to know more info, there are no agents to pick up the call. I've tried multiple times...

Yeah, this is very frustrating !!! They received my application on August 18 and I got AOR on November 5th. Mine is still "Decision Made". Its been about 95 days for me, I will start calling them after 110 days.

 

[DNK]

Hi, so, can we send the whole family applications in just one package?
Do we have to sub divide into further envelopes for each applicant inside the main package?
Also, when I selected 3 cards while paying fees, I just got one barcode for $150, would that be okay?
Can someone please respond? Planning on sending tomorrow.

Hi. I sent all applications in one package, but I did divide each applicant documents into transparent sheets. It is one barcode. I did print it for each applicant.

 

[houman-h]

Happy for you, did you request urgent processing through web-form or phone?

I finally received my PR card in mail today!
Here is my timeline for my urgent renewal:
Application sent Oct 30
AOR: Nov 4th
Decision made: Nov 5th
Pr card mailed: Nov 9th
Pr received: Nov 17th

They processed my urgent application in 2 days.
Good luck to everyone!

 

[IndianBos]

Thanks for your reply. So, you mean, the address that I wrote in my application form as my current residential address?

Yes, correct. As long as you wrote your current address in the application, you should be good.

 

[sanode]

Yeah, this is very frustrating !!! They received my application on August 18 and I got AOR on November 5th. Mine is still "Decision Made". Its been about 95 days for me, I will start calling them after 110 days.

Your application looks much better, they received my application on August 20th and I did not get an AOR yet and the application status is only submitted .

 

[canvisa13]

Your application looks much better, they received my application on August 20th and I did not get an AOR yet and the application status is only submitted .

We are in same boat. First week of Sept, no AOR, and no ECAS status.

 

[andrem]

We applied for PR card renewal as family (3). Applications rceived Aug 24. All 3 AORs on Nov 4. My daughter's ECAS show decision made right from Nov 4; my wife and mine still show in process since then. My wife has been out of the country almost the same number of days as my daughter. I had to travel for work quite a lot, so I suspect they would take longer to assess that I complied with the residency obligation. Have you seen similar situations or even partial approvals of PR earlier like my wife and daughter and mine taking longer?

 

[RJ2020]

Yes, correct. As long as you wrote your current address in the application, you should be good.

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it.

 

[tani.singh]

Hi everyone I called IRCC and they said my card went for production on 9th November,does anyone have an idea how long it’s taking after that to receive? thankyou

 

[RJ2020]

We applied for PR card renewal as family (3). Applications rceived Aug 24. All 3 AORs on Nov 4. My daughter's ECAS show decision made right from Nov 4; my wife and mine still show in process since then. My wife has been out of the country almost the same number of days as my daughter. I had to travel for work quite a lot, so I suspect they would take longer to assess that I complied with the residency obligation. Have you seen similar situations or even partial approvals of PR earlier like my wife and daughter and mine taking longer?

As far as I know, having too many trips or even a large number of days outside Canada doesn’t matter. As long as you meet the residency requirements which is 2yrs out 5yrs, and you filled the app form correctly, you’re qualified. So, even if you’ve been outside Canada exactly 3yrs, it shouldn’t affect the processing time. The problem is, due to Covid-19 and the reduced number of employees, each case might be processed differently time-wise. As you can see, we have some cases that their status is “decision made”, but have not been printed or mailed since 1 month ago. On the other hand, we had some cases in this thread , after the decision was made about them, the cards were mailed in less than 2-3 weeks. In addition, some cases received AOR exactly 2-2.5 month after they were submitted, while we have other cases which have not received AOR after 3 months. During this pandemic, the key factor here is patience. We will all finally get our cards. Someone sooner, someone later.

 

[mlei9569]

Anyone from Montreal recently received PR card? Could you share you timline?

 

[andrem]

As far as I know, having too many trips or even a large number of days outside Canada doesn’t matter. As long as you meet the residency requirements which is 2yrs out 5yrs, and you filled the app form correctly, you’re qualified. So, even if you’ve been outside Canada exactly 3yrs, it shouldn’t affect the processing time. The problem is, due to Covid-19 and the reduced number of employees, each case might be processed differently time-wise. As you can see, we have some cases that their status is “decision made”, but have not been printed or mailed since 1 month ago. On the other hand, we had some cases in this thread , after the decision was made about them, the cards were mailed in less than 2-3 weeks. In addition, some cases received AOR exactly 2-2.5 month after they were submitted, while we have other cases which have not received AOR after 3 months. During this pandemic, the key factor here is patience. We will all finally get our cards. Someone sooner, someone later.

Thank you RJ2020! Indeed patience is the key factor in both renewing the PRs and in the the citizenship processes...
Cheers!

 

[AM-MA]

As far as I know, having too many trips or even a large number of days outside Canada doesn’t matter. As long as you meet the residency requirements which is 2yrs out 5yrs, and you filled the app form correctly, you’re qualified. So, even if you’ve been outside Canada exactly 3yrs, it shouldn’t affect the processing time. The problem is, due to Covid-19 and the reduced number of employees, each case might be processed differently time-wise. As you can see, we have some cases that their status is “decision made”, but have not been printed or mailed since 1 month ago. On the other hand, we had some cases in this thread , after the decision was made about them, the cards were mailed in less than 2-3 weeks. In addition, some cases received AOR exactly 2-2.5 month after they were submitted, while we have other cases which have not received AOR after 3 months. During this pandemic, the key factor here is patience. We will all finally get our cards. Someone sooner, someone later.

Beautifully summed up.

 

[faty82]

Hi All, um just gathering documents and filling the form, have a few questions. Um a freelance translator, so um always home based, in section 20 (work and education history), shall i only add one line and mention "From date" (landing date) and the date documents will be submitted as the "To Date", OR i have to mention every line for every cities in Canada and out of Canada i lived in the past 5 years, and mention in each line I am a freelance translator (home based)? Do you think adding a separate page with a note for the officer and explaining the nature of my job or naming a few of my clients with a link to my linkedin is a good idea?