Should I send my PR application from my country of origin or in Canada?

[TC]

Hi everyone,

I have the BC Nomination Letter since February but I haven't applied for the PR under PNP yet as I am in the process of getting a work permit visa. I plan to go to Canada with my work permit visa fist and apply for the PR while in Canada as I think the processing time would be shorter for applications in Canada. However, the processing time for work permit visa is longer than I thought so I may have to send the PR application from Vietnam, my country of origin within this month before the nomination letter expires in August. If that's the case, is there anyway I can inform CIC of my new address in Canada when I am there and if they would treat my application under the processing time for applications inside Canada?

Grateful if you could share your thoughts/experiences. Thanks.

 

[ragluf]

Hi everyone,

I have the BC Nomination Letter since February but I haven't applied for the PR under PNP yet as I am in the process of getting a work permit visa. I plan to go to Canada with my work permit visa fist and apply for the PR while in Canada as I think the processing time would be shorter for applications in Canada. However, the processing time for work permit visa is longer than I thought so I may have to send the PR application from Vietnam, my country of origin within this month before the nomination letter expires in August. If that's the case, is there anyway I can inform CIC of my new address in Canada when I am there and if they would treat my application under the processing time for applications inside Canada?

Grateful if you could share your thoughts/experiences. Thanks.

Hi,

See this from OP 1 Procedures:
...all applicants for permanent residence (other than applicants who come under Part 8 of the Regulations – Convention Refugees Abroad and Humanitarian Protected Persons Abroad) must submit their applications to the visa office responsible for:
 the country where the applicant is residing, if the applicant has been lawfully admitted to that country for at least one year; or
 the applicant's country of nationality, or if the applicant is stateless, their country of habitual residence other than a country where they are residing without having been lawfully admitted.

At the time you send in your PR application, you are in Vietnam, and likely by the time you get the WP, you will not have residency in Canada for a year. Expect the PR application to be remanded to the Visa Office serving Vietnam for processing.

You can request a transfer of the application to a processing office in Canada should you get the WP and move, but the decision will still lie with CIC on where your application will be processed. Not all requests for transfers are successful.

.../all the best

 

[TC]

Thanks Ragluf but I thought "lawfully admitted to that country for at least one year" means if my visa is granted from one year on wards, I can be considered as a Canadian resident? Or do I need to physically stay in Canada for one year? Anyway, I agree with you that it would be difficult for CIC to transfer my application for processing in Canada.

 

[ragluf]

Thanks Ragluf but I thought "lawfully admitted to that country for at least one year" means if my visa is granted from one year on wards, I can be considered as a Canadian resident? Or do I need to physically stay in Canada for one year? Anyway, I agree with you that it would be difficult for CIC to transfer my application for processing in Canada.

Hi,
Issuance/grant of a visa and/or work permit is not equivalent to admittance. The visa gives you authorization to travel to/enter Canada, and the work permit is your authorization to work for a specified period, and is a status document, which will give you worker status + temp resident status. But this status is only gained (some would term it as activated ) when you have entered Canada, processed and given your WP, and allowed through by the border officials (hence lawfully admitted into Canada as a worker). Then your temp residency starts onwards, from that point on.

.../all the best

 

[roadtocanada2014]

Hi everyone,

I have the BC Nomination Letter since February but I haven't applied for the PR under PNP yet as I am in the process of getting a work permit visa. I plan to go to Canada with my work permit visa fist and apply for the PR while in Canada as I think the processing time would be shorter for applications in Canada. However, the processing time for work permit visa is longer than I thought so I may have to send the PR application from Vietnam, my country of origin within this month before the nomination letter expires in August. If that's the case, is there anyway I can inform CIC of my new address in Canada when I am there and if they would treat my application under the processing time for applications inside Canada?

Grateful if you could share your thoughts/experiences. Thanks.

Hi TC,

Here is my advice. Apply from Vietnam straight away before the nomination letter expires. Every PNP application must be sent to central intake office in Nova Scotia. The intake office will then decide whether to send you application to the office that looks after Vietnam to process your application or to ottawa. If you are outside of Canada, most likely it will be sent to an office near you but if for argument sake you enter canada in the next two months and you still do not get your acknowledgement letter, chances are they will send it to Ottawa.

Hope this makes sence. Hurry up.. U dont have much time left .

thanks

 

[TC]

Thanks eveyone for your advices. I will send my application this week.