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Physical Presence: I have re-checked everything looks good from my side.
I got this message saying that "In your records, we cannot confirm your time in canada before you became a permanent resident" (PR).
any one got same thing? any suggestions to get it resolved?
 
What was your status before you became a PR?
This is quite common for people who were visitors prior to getting their PR, and there have been many reports of this in the forum, if you want to search.
People who had work and study permit usually don't get this problem as IRCC can easily validate their records in this case.

As for how to "solve" it, well, the only ironclad method is "nevermind, I'll withdraw and reapply once I accumate enough days as a PR and don't need to rely on these days".
If you don't want to abandon the current application, you can simply answer that you're sure of your calculation, and provide as much proof as you can to justify every single day of physical presence : flight tickets, rental or property proof, bank statements, work or studies proof if you had these statuses in Canada, or even stuff like Google Maps history or social media activity proving the presence in Canada. The more the better I guess. What's for sure : the onus is on you to prove the physical presence, so better be convincing.

Also, please note that if you go this route, it may (may, not necessarily will!) take ages, many months and potentially years, before IRCC makes a decision, and there is no guarantee the decision will go your way. If you still live in Canada and have accumulated enough days since you applied to be either eligible without pre-PR days or relatively close to it, or if you keep the current application going but the physical presence stays in progress by the time you reach 1095 days as PR, I would advise you to go with a fresh application. There's a good chance going back to the starting block gets you to the finish line faster.

Obviously up to you, depending on your circonstances, the physical presence proof you're able to present to IRCC, whether you still live here or left since you applied, and, frankly, your risk tolerance regarding a potential delay or even dismissal of your application if the above proof is deemed inconclusive or incomplete. Good luck.
 
Hi,
Entered as visitor on April 2nd week 22
got open work permit on Oct 1st week 22
became Pr on march 13 23.
application sent on Nov last week 2025 and since then waiting AOR..

Got an Action for Physical Presence

1048 PR finished days...
1158 days with open work permit as of today..

Can still resubmit it again? or wait untill i finish 1079 pr days

and also which one is better withdraw or resubmit same?


could you please help here
 
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The "problematic" period for IRCC is probably April to October 2022 as a visitor. Apart from that, nothing much to add to the previous answer.
If you wait a little bit more and get 3 years of physical presence as a PR (and that should happen probably soon if you didn't leave Canada often since March 2023), or at minimum don't rely at all on visitor days, you'll make things easier for yourself and IRCC, but again, up to you.
 
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The "problematic" period for IRCC is probably April to October 2022 as a visitor. Apart from that, nothing much to add to the previous answer.
If you wait a little bit more and get 3 years of physical presence as a PR (and that should happen probably soon if you didn't leave Canada often since March 2023), or at minimum don't rely at all on visitor days, you'll make things easier for yourself and IRCC, but again, up to you.
1048 PR finished days... 45 days left
1158 days with open work permit as of today..

which on is better to resubmit it again along with workpermit days? or wait until finsh off 1079 pr days?

and also withdraw or resubmit same application?
 
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and also which one is better withdraw or resubmit same?

You said above that you're "still waiting for AOR", which means IRCC just returned your application without entering it in their system, so nothing to withdraw, you can only submit a new application if I'm not mistaken.
So just do that...
As for whether you should do it today or once you accumulate these 45 days : well, up to you. I already specified what in my first answer that I'd lean towards not even needing pre-PR days for eligibility, but I'm not in your shoes.
One thing to add maybe : regardless of what you decide, you can add an explanation letter to your new application explaining what happened, where you'd acknowledge that IRCC may still not be able to confirm the visitor days, but that you have enough days to validate eligibility without those anyway, rendering the problem moot.
 
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