Hi all,
I’m a bit confused with the ‘decision made’ status. Do they not actually tell you what the decision is at that point??
My other question... we just received the pre-arrival services letter and status has been updated to ‘decision made’ today. We were going to move to Canada on October 5 on a visitor visa and wait there for the permanent residence application to be completed. Will that be a problem if we get a passport request before then?
thank you!
They do not tell you what the decision made actually is but just by numbers is usually positive - and if pre-arrival is also received, I believe almost a 'lock' that it is an approval.
You will have to decide what you wish to do if you get the PPR before then - since the applicant is from an ETA country, they won't issue a visa, just the COPR - but I think they do insist on the photos being submitted by post/courier and I don't know how long that might take. (It shouldn't take long but 2-4 weeks perhaps not unusual?). Obviously inconvenient if you have tickets booked you can't change, etc. (To be able to get an idea of how long you'd see if many cases of PPR in similar countries in the EU that are covered by the same visa office - and I'm assuming they haven't switched to any electronic format yet there)
Note, the differences I can think of: if you get COPR and then travel, PR status is validated at the border - that's it, you're done. (Also SIN can be applied for at airport in many cases, and if shipping personal goods to follow, customs may be a bit cleaner). This could/would be important for those who want to work right away - and in some provinces (eg Ontario) can apply for health card with the stamped COPR and proof-of-address; if you have all that, health coverage the same day you apply.
If you land in Canada before getting the COPR back,
in theory it's the virtual landing platform and can be done in-country. But there are multiple cases here of applicants advising IRCC they are in Canada (as the PPR instructions say) and then waiting for months for the virtual landing to be organised. (Some faster, but not just one or two taking longer).
So: it's
very hard to say what to do. I would not call this advice but 'if it were me' and I got the PPR before I got on the plane, I'd reschedule and do the passport submission abroad and land with the COPR. PR status right away, ability to work, health coverage, more certainty. But those are all just preferences and don't mean anything without personal circumstances or constraints.
Hopefully you'll just get the PPR very soon and have time to submit and get the COPR back without worrying. Good luck.
