Hello
A person on the French forum confirmed reception of ppr sent by email and an immigration agent called her simultaneously to confirm it. Agent told hershe received it due to her job in radiology so they might be issuing some ppr to people in essential domains as of now by email. It isn't clear now what will become of the annual quotas, if they will be maintained.
Other people also saying clinics for medicals are planning to reopen soon and that probably medicals will be issued in small waves so that the reopening clinics won't be overloaded and to streamline applicants with clinics capacity.
Now we all know how "credible" these CIC agents on the phone are if you have talked to one. If you ask the same question to 3 different agents, you will get 3 different answers. Phone agents are pretty unreliable.
I would not trust this information even a bit. If anyone wants to know the bias of the person who said they got PPR because the person is an essential category, its called "
Appeal to authority".
The only part I believe is the COPR by phone call. This COPR validation by phone is nothing new. Its happening all the time in Express Entry category for inland applicants. Applicants in EE category gets either an in person interview or a phone call. Because of COVID, they switched to phone call completely.
Until and unless its stated in CIC's official website that they are prioritizing these categories, I will consider that part of the information as hearsay.