URGENT ISSUE
I'm posting on behalf of a friend.
His wife is currently in Canada on a tourist visa and they have been waiting for PR approval for 2 years.
Her medical expires on March 1st 2013.
She got her passport request on Dec. 4, 2012.
Her Thai passport expires in June, 2013.
They have plans to travel to Thailand on February 20th, 2013 and stay for about 2.5 months.
Originally, they delayed sending the passport because they wanted to go Singapore in person at the end of February after renewing her Thai passport in Thailand. Then they wanted to go back to Thailand for a 2 month holiday. There may have been a misunderstanding about how the medical and passport expiry dates will affect the process at this point so they are now unsure of what to do right now. I went through this process about 2 years ago but I forget all the details and don't know if any rules have changed.
Today, Singapore sent an email to them regarding the situation. I'm guessing Singapore was expecting the passport in the mail because the request was on Dec. 4th and they didn't get it yet, so they sent an email. The email said that they had two options.
A) Send passport in mail as quick as possible and they would try speed up the process and have it back to Canada before February 20th for their travels.
B) Get extension on visa and renter Canada on a temporary residency visa, and wait for an extension of the medical to be processed after it expires.
Option A looks like it would work, but I remember something about the passport needing to be valid for a certain time frame upon stamping or entering Canada or something.
How would her passport expiring in June 2013 affect Option A?