Yes Dec 2019, No AOR at all, i think sadly AOR wont come till maybe april 2021 at best, the processing is 24 months now it says but i don't know, i'm saying April because im hopeful but to be realistic maybe October 2021 for AOR and then a year to process it, unless some news channel or someone reports it to the minister of immigration the IRCC we will be at the bottom of the pit.
I really like how the persian community played it and told about IRCC to the news and reps and got a motion in Ottawa to set IRCC straight for long processing times maybe some refugee community or legal service can do the same for us
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https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/06/10/iranians-facing-higher-delays-for-permanent-residency-than-other-nationalities.html)
I travelled all at once, really outside of Canada they don't mind RTD's its pretty chill. Yeah, I got an Egyptian visa multiple for 1 year in Montreal when i was on a random visit, it took 9 days (needed bank statement, picture, flight ticket etc, similar to turkish). Once you enter i know other RTD's that extended it and stayed for up to 13 months inside egypt to be with family visiting too, there's nice tourist cities (Sharm el sheik) and villas and malls. There is nothing illegal about staying out for long, as long as RTD is valid to be able to fly back to canada even the day before!
Mexico i went with an expired us visa, but really they just asked me where i live and i said canada the RTD said canada, and i got a stamp on it saying i can stay for 6 months
Germany i got a weird officer who really didn't know what to put down as nationality cause of the RTD, asked me to show a return flight and hotel reservation (which you don't need)but which i had just out of being safe, asked his supervisor what to do; the lady told him and i was on my way.
only 2 conditions apply: 1. you don't go to your home country. 2. you don't become a permanent resident anywhere else (but you can like go to the US as a student for 4 years for college as a canadian refugee, or even work in the US on a H1B visa but you will just be delaying your citizenship)
the officer for CBSA checks your name in all the flight logs to make sure you never went on a flight to your country, i'm not sure how much coverage they have, like im pretty sure delta, air france etc they can see but i dont know about like african airlines for example. second they check your passport for stamps. I had a really dumb CBSA officer ask if i went to my country after i just came back from Miami for a 3 week trip, mind you my country has a no fly zone haha no planes can even go there, they are really young and suffer from like getting a high on having instilled authority, and then there's some that are cool and experienced.
