Principal Applicant (Inland) Dependent (Outland) during COVID-19
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As a suggestion for our draft
We are a category of Express Entry (CEC class) inland applicants, having accompanying outland dependents in our files. The AOR of some of us is 2019; all Express Entry process stages marked passed or have security left as per GCMS notes. Many of us have not seen their families for 12, 15, 19, 24+ months, as travel restrictions banning from non-essential travel do not allow primary applicants to quit Canada. Their families cannot come to Canada as well due to the widespread IRCC refusals to enter temporarily even for family reunification purpose.
The worst part is that per last IRCC procedural provisions, the PR files of our category are not finalized due to the labelled «inability of overseas dependents to travel”. In fact, it is just the opposite. As per June and October 8, 2020 travel exemptions, overseas dependents are able to enter Canada as the immediate family members of permanent and even temporary Canadian residents. It means that when a primary applicant gets COPR, dependents, as his immediate family, fall immediately under latest travel exemptions and having PRVs and COPRs can travel to Canada and land without an issue at the port of entry. Contradictorily, our PR files are on hold due to this apparently artificial "inabilty of dependents to travel". For that reason some of our PR files are untouched by the IRCC officers since the middle of 2020 being in a queue for final review.
Moreover, in spite of existing travel restrictions currently we observe numeral PPRs issued by the IRCC to the outland applicants of FSW and PNP EE streams. It turns that currently we are the only EE category neglected by the IRCC in terms of finalizing of the PR files. To underline, the only one Express Entry category separated with their families. All this sounds so inhuman towards the long-suffering families.
PR finalization is the only and much awaited way to reunite for our families. We plead you to reconsider IRCC provision that holds PR files of inland applicant with overseas dependents from finalization as their families are authorized to travel and ready to comply with every safety requirement.
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how do we petition and put it on the meeting's agenda? Is there a specific minister I am reaching out to from the list?
Let's all share our email address (linked on the IRCC profile) with @iravlad in private message? Your thoughts?
So you guys think my draft is ok? are we going to put some changes there or add something? Or may be somebody has composed another draft? Let's decide and then ponder on how to sign and send. I guess we are short of time as its already 12 days of March left
First name: Last name: Application number: AOR: Email-Id: (Just a suggestion or may be less information)
I agree. I've shared the following in a private message:
Name (First and last):
Phone number:
I would suggest AOR too that will also give an idea about the amount of time we all have been waiting for
Yeah, agree. I have just created google doc cotaining our letter. It can be edited by everyone who has a link. So, everybody can sign at the bottom of the doc. Just a sec, I will share the link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8m-DoL1UnxbXqSra3s3XHH4mingsYuQ5Z-uCTFi5sA/edit?usp=sharing
let me know if you can edit. And i am not sure whom we should address our letter, any suggestions
let me know if you can edit. And i am not sure whom we should address our letter, any suggestions