Hi
Any idea, how long normally take to get PR urgently renewed. My PR is expiring end of Feb but I need to travel urgently due to My father-in-law sincerely ill and in hospital. I have included Dr. report, ticket and letter of emergency along with my renewal application. Any thing else should be included to expedite the process. Appreciate experience sharing&advice
Sorry to learn that your father-in-law is so ill. Best wishes for him and your family.
Regarding urgent processing of a PR card application, unfortunately I cannot offer much positive news.
There have been rather few reports of IRCC actually expediting PR card applications based on requests for urgent processing.
@armoured identified one of the main reasons for this: a PR does not necessarily need a valid PR card to travel abroad given the available alternative, obtaining a PR Travel Document to facilitate boarding a flight back to Canada. So, as a policy matter, it appears the Canadian government may
NOT consider "urgent" processing to be needed for processing PR card applications.
That said, practically speaking, it is widely recognized that obtaining a PR TD is NOT a convenient alternative. And, indeed, can be rather inconvenient if the PR is traveling to certain parts of the world (appears to be easier and faster to obtain a PR TD in the UK or Western Europe, for example, than, say, Pakistan). Especially during the current pandemic.
But the laws, rules, and administration of them, in regards to PRs and international travel, are more or less oriented to ALLOWING PRs to travel abroad, and not so much oriented to facilitating international travel. (In other topics I have occasionally discussed how the way things work, regarding international travel, generally leaves PRs dependent on whatever passport the PR carries; remember, for international travel purposes, PR status merely means the individual has authority to enter Canada.) So, again, it appears that as a general policy, the Canadian government probably does NOT consider "urgent" processing to be needed for processing PR card applications.
It warrants emphasizing that the limited number of reports about expedited or urgent PR card processing very much limits what we actually know about this. And thus, for example, assuming you have or will make the request for urgent processing,
if you will return here and report about how it goes for you, that could help the forum answer these sorts of questions for others. The forum very much depends on follow-up reporting, particularly for procedures like PR card application processing for which there is almost no official source of information (except in those cases where PRs foolishly make a PR card application when they are inadmissible for failing to comply with the PR Residency Obligation, triggering a decision to terminate their status, and they appeal, so then we can see the official IAD decision about the case).
It also warrants noting that what we know about requests to urgently process PR card applications is also hampered by the vagaries in facts, the variability of situations in which PRs are making these requests. It is very possible that there is a BIG difference in how such requests are handled depending on how well settled the PR is IN Canada, and for how long. For example, IF IRCC does expedite PR card application processing, it is far more likely it will do so for you if you have been settled and living in Canada for the last FOUR years or so . . . and not so much if in the last five years you have been outside Canada more than in Canada.
It seems a significant percentage of the few reports we see here, about urgent processing requests, come from PRs in the latter group. They meet what the law ALLOWS, in terms of the PR RO, but are not so clearly or definitely meeting what the law intends (granting PR status so the individual can settle and live in Canada PERMANENTLY). Obviously the government might be inclined to screen these PRs more thoroughly, which would tend to preclude expedited processing.
