Hi Everyone!
Thank you all for the feedback I've received on this platform. It's been quite valuable. I'm in another conundrum. I'm scheduled to attend a training session in Europe late next month. If all goes well, then I hope to get my COPR in a few weeks and head to Canada to search for a place at least and get the basic stuff done- setting up a bank account. However if I do that and leave Canada before the card arrives, I would have only 2 options (return by land or by sea) right? That would mean coming through the U.S. right? For that, I would need to apply for a U.S. visitor visa since I no longer live in the U.S. nor do I hold any visa there. The option is to wait until the end of the training, some time in October, and head to Canada. However I would need to return to West Africa, since the organization is paying for a return ticket and not for a multiple city type of ticket. Has anyone had any experience with receiving the permanent resident card in less than a month? I also thought of having a friend mail the card to me while on the training, but I worry that it might not be ready by the end of the training.