Me and my family landed on 21 JANUARY 2014 at Vancouver International Airport, however it is 4 April 2014 and we have not received our PR cards yet. When we called the CIC call centre 2 days back, CIC couldn't locate our PR card application. Neither does it show a separate box for the PRC on the ECAS - the ECAS only shows our permanent residence application from outside Canada (the immigration application ie) and when clicked on 'complete' shows that we landed at Vancouver International Airport office on 21/1/14. At the time of landing, we provided our correct house address in Canada (a rental house was already arranged by my sister prior to my arrival in Canada) for receipt of PR card.
Current processing times for PRC for new PR are shown as a mere 37 calendar days on processing times on CIC website.
However, today is the 74th day since landing in Vancouver and our expectations were to have received the PRC within a realistic timescale of 8 weeks.
I am stuck outside Canada as I traveled to the UK due to my work commitments and my booked flight back to Vancouver is coming up on 15 April 2014, not even enough time to get a PR travel document from High Commission of Canada in London, England. I was counting on the PR card arriving within realistic timescale and my family couriering it to me. I am a Pakistani passport holder without a US visa, so I cannot switch my destination flight to Seattle and drive to the land WA-BC land border by road.
It is a very big inconvenience and we're feeling frustrated by the inefficiency of CIC in this regard. Feeling helpless. What to do? Should we be worried? Is there a probability our PR card application got lost in transit from British Columbia to Nova Scotia? Or is it an automatic computerized procedure? Or a possibility that due to human error or negligence, Vancouver officials never forwarded our application to Nova Scotia CIC?
