Citizenship applications for Protected Persons
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There's no real way to answer this question. Officially, there's no difference. How long a specific application will take depends on many factors.
Nationality may (not necessarily will!) be a factor for a lengthy application, if you're wondering about factors that the applicant can't control themselves. If you look at mandamus cases in CanLII, you'll see Chinese nationals, Iranians, Syrians, but not many, if any, French or New Zealand citizen that were stuck for so long that they had to go the courts and then all the way to the hearing. And the truth is, there's a significantly higher chance a protected person comes from Syria VS France...
Add to it, in case of PR refugees, whether there's any hint of reavailment which will delays things quite a lot, but you're not asking about people who applied after doing something they shouldn't have done, so probably outside the scope of the question.
That being said, there are also scores of PRs who were protected persons and got their citizenship quickly and with no fuss, and it can absolutely be your case.
If you're asking this trying to figure out how your future specific application will go, and you're not merely interested in stats, it's a fool's errand, there's just no way to know in advance. All you can do is to make sure your application is as precise as possible (no missing trips, no small or not so small mistakes here and there...) and then hope for the best.
Nationality may (not necessarily will!) be a factor for a lengthy application, if you're wondering about factors that the applicant can't control themselves. If you look at mandamus cases in CanLII, you'll see Chinese nationals, Iranians, Syrians, but not many, if any, French or New Zealand citizen that were stuck for so long that they had to go the courts and then all the way to the hearing. And the truth is, there's a significantly higher chance a protected person comes from Syria VS France...
Add to it, in case of PR refugees, whether there's any hint of reavailment which will delays things quite a lot, but you're not asking about people who applied after doing something they shouldn't have done, so probably outside the scope of the question.
That being said, there are also scores of PRs who were protected persons and got their citizenship quickly and with no fuss, and it can absolutely be your case.
If you're asking this trying to figure out how your future specific application will go, and you're not merely interested in stats, it's a fool's errand, there's just no way to know in advance. All you can do is to make sure your application is as precise as possible (no missing trips, no small or not so small mistakes here and there...) and then hope for the best.
The official estimated processing time is the same, yes.
In practice, as @Seym noted, there's no difference expected based on which stream an applicant became a PR.
But there are several things that could make it longer that either overlap more with being a PP - eg nationality and likelihood of being a protected person, security evaluations (and difficulty of getting reliable information - some delays at least are likely just while they attempt to get info or waiting for some). For example, coming from a war zone or similar.
And the question of whether the applicant 'reavailed' themselves - esp whether visited home country - is specific only to those who received PR via protected person.
Neither of these mean all PRs who received it this way will face serious delays (even the reavailment issue is still relatively rare). Many will have it go fairly quickly. Those with similar issues/backgrounds from other programs would likely also face delays.