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PR Card Renewal & New - 2022 Processing Timeline

Goldexpress

Full Member
Jan 12, 2017
38
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  1. We received your application for a permanent resident card on April 19, 2022.
  2. We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s) on May 11, 2022.
  3. We started processing your application on May 11, 2022.
  4. Your Permanent Resident card was sent by mail on June 8, 2022.
Decision made status since May 12,2022 onwards until June 8 ,2022
Status changed to Complete on June,9 2022

Good Luck All
 
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lemondrop

Star Member
Feb 12, 2015
113
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Montreal, QC
  1. We received your application for a permanent resident card on March 25, 2022.
  2. We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s) on April 8, 2022.
  3. We started processing your application on April 8, 2022.

Mine finally changed to Decision Made but they haven't mailed it yet. Hopefully I get it soon!
 

bhavik121083

Full Member
Jan 11, 2015
31
2
Overall: you appear to be close and close enough many might choose to take their chances, but it appears you are in breach of the Residency Obligation and it could be January or February or so NEXT YEAR before you are technically in RO compliance. Making an application while in RO breach has risks. If you are well-established here now, the risk should be low, but you should be aware that making a PR card application while in breach of the RO is gambling.

Reminder: Assuming you landed and became a PR prior to June 7, 2017 (that is, more than five years ago as of now): to calculate your RO compliance today, June 9, 2022, you count days IN Canada between June 9, 2017 and June 9, 2022. Days in Canada prior to June 9, 2017 NO LONGER COUNT (they are not in the relevant five years).


LONGER EXPLANATION:

Not sure how or where, but your arithmetic is off somewhere. There are only 1825 days (plus a day for February 29 in leap years) in the relevant five year time period for calculating Residency Obligation compliance. If you were outside Canada for 1113 days during the relevant five years, subtracted from 1825 that leaves just 712 (or 713 if February 29, 2020 is included).

Conversely, if you have been IN Canada for 735 days within the relevant five year period (1825 days), that would mean you were outside Canada just 1090 (possibly 1091 if February 29, 2020 is counted) days.

PR card expiration date is NOT relevant.

The relevant five year period is based on today's date (or the date of a transaction with IRCC or CBSA), and it is the five previous years.

EXCEPT, until the fifth year anniversary of the date of landing; up to this date, the relevant five years are the five years following the date of landing.

Examples:
-- if the PR landed May 19, 2017, the relevant five years is currently (as of today) June 9, 2017 to June 9, 2022 (based on five years previous to today).​
-- if the PR landed July 7, 2017, the relevant five years is currently July 7, 2017 to July 7, 2022 . . . but that is true only to July 7, 2022 (based on the five years following the date of landing) . . . and the PR gets credit for days between now and July 7, 2022 (credit is for days IN Canada since landing PLUS days left on the calendar until the fifth year anniversary of the landing date).​

Ordinarily if the PR is close to meeting the RO, an early application for a PR card will not trigger action to terminate PR status. It may, however, trigger non-routine processing that can delay getting a new PR card.

This is especially so if it appears the PR is NOW well-settled IN Canada, basically having established PERMANENT residence (residence in fact, not just status) in Canada.

HOWEVER, any time a PR is in breach of the Residency Obligation there is a risk the RO will be enforced and action taken to terminate PR status.

Which brings this to your particular situation. I do not know your precise date of landing. I am guessing that May 19, 2017 is not far off. ASSUMING a landing date of May 19, 2017, and based on posts saying you were here initially for nine months, you are not getting any more credit for days you are here because the days you were here five years ago are falling outside the five years that count.

For example, if you were here the entire month of June 2017: you gain a day credit for every day you are here in June 2022 but you lose a day for that respective day in June 2017, so there is NO net change in calculating days in Canada; the calculation stays the same.

So, if you were outside Canada a total of 1113 days between when you left Canada after being here nine months, you are in breach of the RO by 18 days (maybe 17 days) . . . and you will continue to be in breach of the RO for the rest of the corresponding nine months that you were here five years ago.

Back to the landing May 19, 2017 example, and you being here for the next nine months back then, and then 1113 days outside Canada. Today you would be 18 days short of meeting the RO. Three months from now, say September 8, 2022, you will still be 18 days short of being in RO compliance. (As of September 8, 2022 the RO compliance calculation will count days in Canada between September 8, 2017 and September 8, 2022.)

That is close enough many might risk it. But you are short and being short has risks.
We landed in Canada 11th May 2017 and My pr card expiry is 13th July 2022! So I have 2 months buffer for Pr card Expiry! what's your suggestion now?
 

Ped1994

Star Member
May 24, 2022
81
5
  1. We received your application for a permanent resident card on April 19, 2022.
  2. We sent you correspondence acknowledging receipt of your application(s) on May 11, 2022.
  3. We started processing your application on May 11, 2022.
  4. Your Permanent Resident card was sent by mail on June 8, 2022.
Decision made status since May 12,2022 onwards until June 8 ,2022
Status changed to Complete on June,9 2022

Good Luck All
Congratssss!
May I ask how many days you were in Canada when u applied? And did you have any trips outside of country? Because luckily you’ve got decision made so fast!!
 

laurals

Newbie
Jun 27, 2021
5
2
Good luck
Is it still decision made or it is completed?
Thank you! It says it was mailed yesterday on Jun 8, and status is Complete.
Nothing in my mailbox yet but I'm glad there's no additional trouble for picking it up somewhere.
 

bluehorse

Hero Member
Dec 1, 2017
464
263
USA
Category........
PNP
Visa Office......
CIO - Sydney, NS
NOC Code......
2174
App. Filed.......
26-01-2021
AOR Received.
06-07-2021
Passport Req..
17-01-2022
LANDED..........
27-04-2022
I'm awaiting my first PR card ... What is the current timeline to receive the PR card ? I landed on April 27, 2022.
 

stscorcher

Full Member
Jun 9, 2022
47
25
Landed: 04/21/2022
Linked application to GC Key: 05/05/2022
Current Status: Submitted
Current Full Application Status: "We are processing your application. We will send you a message when there is an update or if we need more information from you."
 

nike123

Full Member
May 30, 2021
39
78
I am also anxiously waiting for my PR Card. It says 71 days as of yesterday. I landed 21 April. Will it affect if I am already currently away from Canada? I just did soft landing.
 

stscorcher

Full Member
Jun 9, 2022
47
25
I am also anxiously waiting for my PR Card. It says 71 days as of yesterday. I landed 21 April. Will it affect if I am already currently away from Canada? I just did soft landing.
I don't think it will affect your card processing timeline by any means. You can enter by road (private vehicle) with your signed COPR papers, but to enter by air you need your PR Card or have to go through extra process of reaching out to Canada Embassy in your region (which I am not completely sure as to the steps)
 

nike123

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May 30, 2021
39
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I don't think it will affect your card processing timeline by any means. You can enter by road (private vehicle) with your signed COPR papers, but to enter by air you need your PR Card or have to go through extra process of reaching out to Canada Embassy in your region (which I am not completely sure as to the steps)
Thank you for the response. It seems we have landed on the same day as well. Glad you were able to link it to your GCKey. I tried it just now but still I cannot link it. Guess, I will just have to wait. =)
 

stscorcher

Full Member
Jun 9, 2022
47
25
Thank you for the response. It seems we have landed on the same day as well. Glad you were able to link it to your GCKey. I tried it just now but still I cannot link it. Guess, I will just have to wait. =)
my two cents: I had the issue with place of birth. Entering the info on the COPR errored out. So I went to see what was there in my passport and entered it and was able to link it.
COPR: XXXXX
Passport: XXXXX, XXXX
(I even entered the comma and space)
 

nike123

Full Member
May 30, 2021
39
78
my two cents: I had the issue with place of birth. Entering the info on the COPR errored out. So I went to see what was there in my passport and entered it and was able to link it.
COPR: XXXXX
Passport: XXXXX, XXXX
(I even entered the comma and space)
OMG! You were right. I was able to link it. Why have I not realized it all this time? Lol. Now, I see we are on the same status. Thanks a lot! I owe you a pint. haha!
 

Acorn450

Star Member
Jun 1, 2022
96
61
New here. My PR card renewal timeline:
  1. Application received- Jan 10
  2. Started processing- Feb 22
  3. Decision Made- Feb 23
  4. Dead silence
Is anyone else in this situation?
 

omarnene

Full Member
Sep 9, 2017
43
3
New here. My PR card renewal timeline:
  1. Application received- Jan 10
  2. Started processing- Feb 22
  3. Decision Made- Feb 23
  4. Dead silence
Is anyone else in this situation?
Call them
My friend had similar case and the issue was in the photo but they forgot to request from him
Good luck
 
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Goldexpress

Full Member
Jan 12, 2017
38
16
Congratssss!
May I ask how many days you were in Canada when u applied? And did you have any trips outside of country? Because luckily you’ve got decision made so fast!!
Thank you
Around 1400 + days in Canada, Yes on an average 2 per year with exception of Pandemic years ( 20,21)