Activating PR with only a copy of COPR letter?

[Tedman]

I received PPR at the end of Dec and COPR in the mail in early Jan. We have been out of the country and going to return to Canada in a week and plan to activate PR on the way back in at Vancouver airport.

I have had a friend scan and email the COPR letter to me and plan to use that to activate PR. Has anyone done this or see any issues. I think the COPR letter has an actual passport photo attached to it...

My reasoning is all our info is in their system using our UCI numbers and applications so I can't see an issue with only have a copy of the letter.

Thoughts??

Thanks in Advance.

 

[seab]

You won't be able to do it with just a photo copy. The actual COPR is two carbon copy type pages. So when you sign on one copy it prints on to the second copy. Chances are your home photo copier doesn't have this type of paper. They also send a photo along with the document so they would need the actually pictures as well.

 

[Marlee]

Just posted this topic yesterday: http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/dm-but-copr-not-at-hand-visaexempt-applicants-wanting-to-land-at-the-airport-t393883.0.html;msg4910730#msg4910730

Hope this helps!

 

[Tedman]

Just posted this topic yesterday: http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/dm-but-copr-not-at-hand-visaexempt-applicants-wanting-to-land-at-the-airport-t393883.0.html;msg4910730#msg4910730

Hope this helps!

Thanks Marlee. We live about 5 hours return trip from the airport so it might be a bit of an ask to get someone to drop it off at the airport. We might try the second option you mentioned and bring along 2 new copies of our passport photos and hopefully they can re-print the COPR and get it sorted at the airport.

Worst case we will have to enter on a holiday visa and then do a border run a couple of days after we arrive.

Thanks heaps for the response.

 

[Marlee]

No problem! Just remember that the photo specs have changed in November. They have to be slightly bigger now.

 

[Tedman]

Update for anyone interested. We landed at Vancouver International on Sunday afternoon with just a copy of our COPR. We had new copies of passport photos with us (50mmx70mm - as per the new standard for PR). Besides the large line in the immigration office, there were no major issues. The officer was able to print out the full COPR documents for us to sign. He even took new passport photos because they thought that the ones we had were the wrong size, so they printed off small ones.

Good luck to everyone else applying for PR, the wait is worth it!