RPRF - Visa Exemption

[jbtoki]

Received a reply from CPP-O.
Sounds like the agent is not aware of the existence of the "incomplete" version.
I suggest them to make it correct and clear to avoid questions like mine.

Hope this helps someone in the future.




Dear Sir/Madam,

I believe that the instructions that you received should have read as the following:

“Passport(s)
You are exempted from obtaining a visa to visit Canada under Regulation 190 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act;
therefore you do not need to submit original passports to finalize your application.
However, you and all your accompanying family members are still required to hold a valid passport.
Please send a copy of the following pages ONLY, for each family member's passport:

- The page(s) containing the holder's name and photo

- All pages that show a change of name

- All pages that show an extension of validity”

It is clearly stated that you must submit a copy of the above listed pages for all accompanying family members.

Regards,

Case Processing Pilot - Ottawa | Centre de Traitement Pilote - Ottawa - XXXXXX

 

[jjonghuny]

Hi. I'm just curious. What is different processing from normal and visa exemption country?

 

[wpan]

I emailed a scan of my passport, then a few days later I followed up with an email asking for any sort of confirmation that they'd either received it, or needed anything else. I didn't hear anything back, so I sent the same sort of email asking for confirmation and they replied to say they'd received my scans and that an officer would be in touch if they needed anything else.

Pretty stock standard answer to be honest, but at least they finally replied!

Hi Bradders,

Did you scan only the photo page of your passport or all the pages of your passport? Could you also confirm that you only emailed those and did not post those?

Thanks,

WPan

 

[bradders]

Hi Bradders,

Did you scan only the photo page of your passport or all the pages of your passport? Could you also confirm that you only emailed those and did not post those?

Thanks,

WPan

Yes, my letter mentioned that I'm visa exempt, so I just scanned my photo page and emailed that.

 

[leebee]

As you can see from my timeline I am still waiting for my CoPR...my RPRF request letter said the following:

"Passport(s)
You are exempted from obtaining a visa to visit Canada under Regulation 190 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act; therefore you do not need to submit original passports to finalize your application."

Thus, I did not send any scans to CIC...I just paid my RPRF and emailed the receipt...I wonder if I should scan my passport pages too?

waiting waiting waiting...

 

[jbtoki]

As you can see from my timeline I am still waiting for my CoPR...my RPRF request letter said the following:

"Passport(s)
You are exempted from obtaining a visa to visit Canada under Regulation 190 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act; therefore you do not need to submit original passports to finalize your application."

Thus, I did not send any scans to CIC...I just paid my RPRF and emailed the receipt...I wonder if I should scan my passport pages too?

waiting waiting waiting...

Oh, you got same instructions as mine.
I emailed scanned images on Mar 24 since it says "you do not need to submit original passports" .
Still no CoPR for me though.

 

[denny8806]

As you can see from my timeline I am still waiting for my CoPR...my RPRF request letter said the following:

"Passport(s)
You are exempted from obtaining a visa to visit Canada under Regulation 190 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act; therefore you do not need to submit original passports to finalize your application."

Thus, I did not send any scans to CIC...I just paid my RPRF and emailed the receipt...I wonder if I should scan my passport pages too?

waiting waiting waiting...

You got the same letter as me.

I was little confused about sending copy of PP or not.

But i didn't coz it didn't say anything about sending PP scan.

I only sent RPRF scan.

Any updates?

 

[jbtoki]

Received CoPR today.

Home Address added: Apr. 27
CoPR issued: Apr. 25
Postmarked: Apr. 26 (regular mail)
Received: May 1

 

[leebee]

Congrats jbtoki!!! ;D ;D ;D

 

[denny8806]

Received CoPR today.

Home Address added: Apr. 27
CoPR issued: Apr. 25
Postmarked: Apr. 26 (regular mail)
Received: May 1

Congratz!! happy for U. lol

 

[denny8806]

Congrats jbtoki!!! ;D ;D ;D

Leebee. did you send pp scan too?
or just RPRF?

 

[jbtoki]

Thanks guys.
Home address was a good index for CoPR prediction.
Wish you get it soon! ;D

 

[leebee]

Leebee. did you send pp scan too?
or just RPRF?

I didn't originally, but I started getting a little worried so I emailed a scan of my passport on April 29th.

They replied later that evening with this:

"Your application is currently in queue to be finalized. Please note that we are unable to estimate the remaining processing time required for your application. If you have included a prepaid Xpresspost return envelope, your passport will be returned using this envelope. If you did not provide a prepaid Xpresspost return envelope, your passport has been returned to you by regular mail."

: :

 

[leebee]

Just want to update:

CoPR issued: April 29, 2013
CIC envelope postmarked: May 2, 2013
Received envelope: May 10, 2013 (in Vancouver)
Landed (via flagpoling): May 11, 2013

Thanks to all for your encouragement and help. Best wishes to all of you. ;D ;D ;D

 

[leebee]

Oh and by the way...if you look at the date I emailed a scan of my passport and the date they issued me my CoPR...they are the same. So I would suggest anyone who is visa-exempt should email a scan of their passport regardless of whether it is explicitly requested!! 8)