TRP (Early Admission)

[ImABule]

Hello,

My wife is planning to apply for a TRV while our application is in process so that we can spend more time together.

Now, I know these are regularly refused while a PR application is in process. I found this reading OP 20 concerning a TRP for early admission to Canada for a foreign national before satisfying the requirements for PR..

5.15. Early admission
The Minister’s delegates may issue a permit to allow foreign nationals to enter Canada before
they satisfy the requirements for permanent residence. The officer must be certain this action is
essential.
The requirements are normally routine processing steps and may or may not be stated in the
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Examples include the completion of background checks
or a medical examination. They do not include the waiting period to apply for criminal
rehabilitation.
If an officer has any reason to believe that a foreign national could not meet all requirements for
permanent residence after completing all processing steps, early admission is not appropriate. If
the officer already knows that the foreign national is inadmissible for any reason, the officer
should not grant early admission.

Does anyone have any experience or insight into this avenue? Would it be feasible to apply for a TRV and then subsequently apply for the TRP should we be refused?

 

[scylla]

TRPs are for people who are inadmissible to Canada - typically due to a crime. The "early admission" bit refers to people who are inadmissible (again, typically due to a crime) and don't qualify for or haven't gone through the rehabilitation process yet. As stated on the main TRP page of the CIC web site: "If you are otherwise inadmissible but have a reason to travel to Canada that is justified in the circumstances, you may be issued a temporary resident permit."

A TRP doesn't apply to your situation. Your wife is admissible.

You need to apply for a TRV. If the TRV is refused, you can always try applying for a TRV again.

 

[ImABule]

TRPs are for people who are inadmissible to Canada - typically due to a crime. The "early admission" bit refers to people who are inadmissible (again, typically due to a crime) and don't qualify for or haven't gone through the rehabilitation process yet. As stated on the main TRP page of the CIC web site: "If you are otherwise inadmissible but have a reason to travel to Canada that is justified in the circumstances, you may be issued a temporary resident permit."

A TRP doesn't apply to your situation. Your wife is admissible.

You need to apply for a TRV. If the TRV is refused, you can always try applying for a TRV again.

That was my original understanding of the TRP, however, the early admission clause states that it "may be issued to allow foreign nationals to enter Canada before they satisfy the requirements for permanent residence."

My understanding of that clause is that it is possible to be granted the TRP to enter early while the processing of an application takes place and before the requirements for PR are met.

 

[Bob140727]

*** i am no expert and being french, i have a different way of reading and understanding english; even worse with legalese english ***

My understanding, is that while Early Admission is one allowed use of TRP (in addition to the more common use of Criminally Inadmissible) it is seldom given because you are allowed to work on a TRP, so it is lot more than just a TRV and more like an OWP. So they (more or less) only give them to criminal who, for example, wants to visit their canadian spouse for a short time and with the officer being sure that the applicant will not overstay.

To me there is clearly a difference between criminal TRV applicant who want to stay temporarily here for visit or work (such as performing at a concert) and is therefore granted a TRP; and Early Admission clause where the intent of the applicant is to stay here forever (which is proven both by the PR application and by the lack of strong enough evidence against the assumed intent of migration as shown by the applicant's rejected TRV). So I doubt that Early Admission only apply to criminal who applied to be PR.

If you do apply for TRP, it takes 5 month to process, is one figure I read about the processing time.

From what I understand of OP 20, you cannot apply for it at the start of the PR application. Early Admission does not mean we admit and then proceed to evaluate the application; it means the application is almost done and everything is good but as we are waiting on a few thing that are expected to be Pass. Like if you are asked to redo medical and your previous medical was OK. Then the officer could let you have a TRP knowing that your re-medical are likely to be good, and if re-medical was the only thing you were waiting on to be cleared for receiving PR.

 

[PaperLantern]

Hi, I'm pretty sure my wife was given one of these. We showed up with copies of her PR stuff and proof of payment. She had already had a TRP for criminal inadmissibility but we got rehabilitation so we showed up at the border to see if she could get a visitor record since the TRP was expiring. They looked at her stuff, asked if she was living in Canada (she replied honestly that she probably technically was because she was here almost every night while she had her TRP) and then they gave her a renewed TRP for multiple entry which states at the bottom "Applied for PR under spousal sponsorship" or something close to that. They said if she doesn't hear back for PR before the expiry date she'll have to get another TRP but that they are pretty sure she will hear back before then.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Hi, I'm pretty sure my wife was given one of these. We showed up with copies of her PR stuff and proof of payment. She had already had a TRP for criminal inadmissibility but we got rehabilitation so we showed up at the border to see if she could get a visitor record since the TRP was expiring. They looked at her stuff, asked if she was living in Canada (she replied honestly that she probably technically was because she was here almost every night while she had her TRP) and then they gave her a renewed TRP for multiple entry which states at the bottom "Applied for PR under spousal sponsorship" or something close to that. They said if she doesn't hear back for PR before the expiry date she'll have to get another TRP but that they are pretty sure she will hear back before then.

Thread is almost 3 years old.

 

[PaperLantern]

Thread is almost 3 years old.

Sorry. Didn't check the date.