No, it didnt state anything in the PPR letter about dates, i can just see the issue dates on the COPR.I mean did it specify this date in the passport request letter? Before you sent your passport.
By the way our copr docs said the same thing that it could not be changed - and then I wrote afterwards and they issued us a new one with an extra year validity.
I can send a link later to a thread about this. But I can't say for sure that they will do this going forward.
I could apply for an extension, but we dont really have time to wait for an answer, and getting an answer just seems impossible anyway, so not much to do other than to pack up and go, and take the 10-15K CAD loss on our variables here in DK.