I think he means that many of us outlanders have used up our savings to remain in Canada at a time when there are few prospects to kick start our careers here, for the moment. Many of us also still have commitments in our home country to wrap up, and we're still here, twiddling our thumbs, waiting for the PR card so we can travel back.
Yes, there is the PRTD but who knows what processing times will be for it by the time we need to return to Canada.
Most people don't want to take that risk and would prefer to have their PR cards.
I just looked at my bank balance and half of my savings have already been wiped out. It would be nice if IRCC had some kind of gameplan for resuming PR card production, if not that at least give us a timeline. I thought the whole purpose of the processing time was to do that, but now they're telling everyone they haven't even started PR card production.
But it sucks not having freedom of movement when many of us have global commitments. They want highly skilled immigrants, okay we're here, but you know what highly skilled immigrants need? They need to be able to move freely.
I have a commitment in my home country to get paperwork done so i can apply for the CPA designation, and i'll just need to do ab online course, and i'll have my qualification converted. If i miss the deadline next year, i'll have to do all the exams from scratch here. How does that make sense for me? People have commitments like this.
I know there's a pandemic, but most us have already waited more than 3 months for this thing. Surely someone should think of restarting production, even if it is not at full capacity.
I've been in Ontario all this time, i've been able to do all of my provincial business without any issues. Why can't that be the same at the federal level? They have more even more resources!
