2023 PR Applications Timeline (Protected Persons & Refugees)
- Thread starter jinglebell0123
- Start date
I think we do not have anyone from April first week in here. please let us know about your process if otherwise.
There are many applicants from March who have not received an FD. you are not alone. The speed of the application depends on where you are from and your travel history.
YES JUNE 12, BACKGROUND PROCESSING , SECURITY NOT STARTED.
Last edited:
Friend,
I wrote a letter to my MP and to Immigration Minister Marc Miller to voice my support for reuniting refugee families.
While many will celebrate with their loved ones on February 17, huge delays in refugee family reunification will continue to prevent thousands of people across Canada from doing the same.
This Family Day, the CCR calls for urgent action to reunite refugee families.
Whether we were born here or came to Canada seeking refuge, we all want the same for our families: to have them safe and close by. This is true for particular reasons for refugees, who have experienced traumatic events and been forced to flee their homes. Even with refugee status in Canada, they can’t start rebuilding their lives when their spouse and children are far away, often themselves in precarious situations, perhaps in a war zone.
It is unconscionable that as a country we are making refugees wait more than 4 and a half years to be reunited with their immediate family, and this is after they have been accepted as refugees.
Canadians overwhelmingly support welcoming refugees and want better for our friends and neighbours waiting to be reunited with their families. Our government’s actions must reflect this support.
Can you join me and write a letter? Click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/this-family-day-lets-reunite-refugee-families?source=email&
Thanks!
I wrote a letter to my MP and to Immigration Minister Marc Miller to voice my support for reuniting refugee families.
While many will celebrate with their loved ones on February 17, huge delays in refugee family reunification will continue to prevent thousands of people across Canada from doing the same.
This Family Day, the CCR calls for urgent action to reunite refugee families.
Whether we were born here or came to Canada seeking refuge, we all want the same for our families: to have them safe and close by. This is true for particular reasons for refugees, who have experienced traumatic events and been forced to flee their homes. Even with refugee status in Canada, they can’t start rebuilding their lives when their spouse and children are far away, often themselves in precarious situations, perhaps in a war zone.
It is unconscionable that as a country we are making refugees wait more than 4 and a half years to be reunited with their immediate family, and this is after they have been accepted as refugees.
Canadians overwhelmingly support welcoming refugees and want better for our friends and neighbours waiting to be reunited with their families. Our government’s actions must reflect this support.
Can you join me and write a letter? Click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/this-family-day-lets-reunite-refugee-families?source=email&
Thanks!
20 march 2023 submitted pr application
21 October 2025 p1
29 October 2025 p2
03 November e copr
To dear fellas
As my own experiences in different stages of this work from claim to citizenship on a few files related to my friends and family. It might be wrong. But I have a believe on it.
1- The timeline is not solely referred to your submission date. It is more related to your pre-approval letter date. The rest is the time difference related to the background check which is up to a few days or couple of weeks difference between people. Remaining whole time in Canada or not, the country of origin, the nature of your files and .... are the main criteria which makes difference. By experience not much. If they have problems with that, for refugees, they are likely to contact you for more documentation. And it is rare.
2- Please please please do not go to MP or submit webforms if you are in timeline. For example if you have submitted your documents in February, March or April 2023, and you received your pre-approval sometimes in May-July 2024, your file is current. They are working on your file. Any touch to your file may delay it even up to a few years. Yes few years. Please be patient. I never ever saw any help from MP or webform on the CURRENT files. May be on significantly delayed files but not the current ones.
3- The files are not in chronological order. If you received your pre-arrival letter 5 days sooner than another person, it does not mean that you will receive the p1 letter 5 days earlier. Do not panic. Even for p1 to p2 there is no solid rules.
4- Cautiously, do not apply for GCMS notes if your file is current. You may link your PR file number in your Canada.ca/GC-key profile and see if your background check has been started or not. The rest needs patience. Also the phone call does not make your files delayed. But GCMS notes... May be.
5- Do not push it unless it needs a push. 5 months delay from the timeline (for getting P1) of others receiving eligibility letters as yours, is the start of thinking that your file is delayed.
6- Never think of the bad news about the new rules. Bill C-12 is not passed yet. Even if it is passed in near future, it takes some meaningful time to be considered and the cases are reviewed and considered. If you are not affected, you are not affected. If you may be affected, you have no control on what will happen. So do not do blind shots. Keep patience.
You will smile at these days in a few months.
Good luck
As my own experiences in different stages of this work from claim to citizenship on a few files related to my friends and family. It might be wrong. But I have a believe on it.
1- The timeline is not solely referred to your submission date. It is more related to your pre-approval letter date. The rest is the time difference related to the background check which is up to a few days or couple of weeks difference between people. Remaining whole time in Canada or not, the country of origin, the nature of your files and .... are the main criteria which makes difference. By experience not much. If they have problems with that, for refugees, they are likely to contact you for more documentation. And it is rare.
2- Please please please do not go to MP or submit webforms if you are in timeline. For example if you have submitted your documents in February, March or April 2023, and you received your pre-approval sometimes in May-July 2024, your file is current. They are working on your file. Any touch to your file may delay it even up to a few years. Yes few years. Please be patient. I never ever saw any help from MP or webform on the CURRENT files. May be on significantly delayed files but not the current ones.
3- The files are not in chronological order. If you received your pre-arrival letter 5 days sooner than another person, it does not mean that you will receive the p1 letter 5 days earlier. Do not panic. Even for p1 to p2 there is no solid rules.
4- Cautiously, do not apply for GCMS notes if your file is current. You may link your PR file number in your Canada.ca/GC-key profile and see if your background check has been started or not. The rest needs patience. Also the phone call does not make your files delayed. But GCMS notes... May be.
5- Do not push it unless it needs a push. 5 months delay from the timeline (for getting P1) of others receiving eligibility letters as yours, is the start of thinking that your file is delayed.
6- Never think of the bad news about the new rules. Bill C-12 is not passed yet. Even if it is passed in near future, it takes some meaningful time to be considered and the cases are reviewed and considered. If you are not affected, you are not affected. If you may be affected, you have no control on what will happen. So do not do blind shots. Keep patience.
You will smile at these days in a few months.
Good luck
