Hi All,
I have somewhat of a dumb question:
Is there a time limit from the time of the Invitation to Apply, AOR to the time one must land in Canada?
My timeline
Invitation to Apply: Feb/2018
AOR: May/2018
(Medical X-Ray of Spouse deferred due to pregnancy)
Now, do we have to enter Canada before May 2019 (i.e within one year of the AOR)? I know that after you get your passport stamped, you have to land in Canada within 6 months.
Thank you in advance for your answers!!
I think you're confusing some elements. But yes there is a time limit. Explanation...
Short Answer: The date will be written on your CoPR.
Long Answer: You don't
have to land in Canada within six months after you get your passport stamped. Your deadline to land in Canada is not directly based on your AOR, ITA date, or when your passport was stamped. It's based
either on the date of medical exam
or passport expiry date,
whichever comes first. (Passport is very rarely an issue when landing, so we won't talk about this requirement).
You
have to land in Canada
before or on the expiry date of your medical exam, which is usually 1 year after you took it. In some instances, for example when the processing of an application takes longer than usual, they have the discretion of extending the validity of your medicals.
In your particular case, it seems you have taken your medical exam, but your spouse is waiting to give birth. So for now, your application is on standby until Xray is done. Two possible scenarios once CoPR is issued:
1- Given that your medicals will expire before hers, you may be requested to retake it once it expires while your application is being processed.
2- A more likely scenario: Your medicals will be extended because your wife's medicals were postponed, hence a later expiry date.
To sum up, landing should be done
within 1 year of medical exam, both for principal applicant and dependents. In some particular cases, the validity of the medicals is extended, and only once you receive CoPR will you know by how long they've extended it.
**Footnote**: Applicants usually have just 6 months to do their landing, because the PR application process itself (6 months) eats up half of the validity of medicals (1 year). But if your application is processed in say 3 months, then you have 9 months do your landing. Which is why it is highly recommended to take medicals as close as possible to application submission.
And congratulations! All the best.
Hope this helps.
