There is an online portal for this type of application. The only difference, however, is the shipping method. Apparently, there is no real gain in application processing speed compared to sending physical documents by mail/courier.
Processing time of online pnp non express entry
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Well yes there is.
It helps IRCC move just a little bit faster as an administrative officer doesn't need to scan/upload documents, and it prevents them from being dumb-dumb and losing documents when they ship it across to different offices.
It also helps applicants not be dumb-dumb and accidentally forget to include important things like a payment receipt, which if missing, means game over and your application comes back incomplete. 18 months later.
Paper for PNP will be phased out by September this year anyway.
Save yourself time and money - upload it online.
As we have discussed in the past, if the applicant really has a tight deadline, it may be that a matter of weeks (?) can make a difference. In that sense I agree with you. However, in most cases where the processes last many months or more of a year, this small difference becomes almost irrelevant. At the end of the day I have the following motto in mind, do the best you can to speed up the process, but be aware that this may not speed up the process... it's contradictory but it's reality.
Sure. Either way paper applications will no longer be an option per this schedule: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2022/08/transitioning-to-online-applications-for-permanent-residence.html
Hopefully the provinces update their Nomination Certificates to reflect the same.
What will speed up the process is 1,250 additional officers, with hopefully many of them allocated to PNP processing stations at CPCs.
You need to upload both front and back sides of the photo with your name, date of birth, date of day on which the photo was taken, and name & address of the photographer's studio.