Any idea why sydney office is processing inland files and stopped or postponed the Outland files?
Their justification is related to current pandemic conditions. Because borders are nearly closed and landing is not possible even you have COPR for outlands (except very rare situations).
I think that this justification is completely nonsense. Because after you got COPR you don’t need to land immediately; you have one year legal expiration period till your medicals expire. Recently, nearly all applicants get their COPR within 1 month after their medicals received. That makes at least 10+ months duration for landing and until that time borders will be re-opened.
Secondly, IRCC has already announced that all expired COPR holders will get auto extension.
I think that; Most probably they will cancel border restrictions in the end of December or in the first weeks of January.
In that time, will they only process outlands to close this gap? I don’t think so.
This will increase processing times, most probably it will reach to 30+ months. Tragic.