Background: Applied for Permanent Residency - Family Sponsorship - Outside of Canada in March of 2025.
- Medical/Biometrics: May 20, 2025
- Everything showing as 'completed' on application tracker portal as of July 15, 2025
- Entered Canada end of June to visit my partner - staying until July 24th; traveling to US for 1.5 months before return to Canada in September
- Passport photo request on July 7 - mailed & received by CIC on July 11 - received response from CIC on July 21st stating a COPR will be issued.
- Email received on July 22nd from IRCC:
- Your application for permanent residence is now ready for finalization pending the
confirmation of your permanent residence status. You’ll complete this process through
the Permanent Residence Portal (PR Confirmation).
You must have an email address in order to complete this process. You need to access
the portal yourself. Your representative cannot access the portal on your behalf. If you
are a representative and are receiving this email on behalf of a client, you must
forward this message to your client.
Next steps:
Please provide the information below within 7 calendar days to ensure there are no
undue delays.
• As the principal applicant, you’ll act on behalf of your dependants (if applicable).
If you would prefer your dependants to have their own accounts, please indicate
so in your reply to this email and provide their valid email addresses.
• In your reply to this email, copy and paste the template below and fill in the
information for yourself and for each member of your family (if applicable). If
you are not sure of the exact date(s) of your entries to Canada, you can provide
your best estimate. IRCC requires this information in order for us to create a
Confirmation of Permanent Residence document for you (and your family
members if applicable) and to create an account for you to become permanent
resident(s) through the portal. - Template to copy and paste
✓ Name as it appears on your passport:
✓ Height in centimetres:
✓ Eye Colour:
✓ UCI:
✓ Personal email (one for the whole family):
✓ Current residential address (apt #, street #, street name, city, province and
postal code):
✓ Personal phone number:
✓ Original entry date (YYYY/MM/DD):
✓ Date of last time you entered Canada (YYYY/MM/DD):
✓ Location of last entry (which Canadian border or Canadian airport):
✓ Are you currently inside Canada (yes or no):
✓ If you are not inside Canada
o When is your expected return date (YYYY/MM/DD):
o In which country are you currently located:
- Your application for permanent residence is now ready for finalization pending the
- I am currently in Canada as a tourist visiting my partner (my sponsor), and I was not expecting the process to move this quickly (though I am very very grateful).
- I have had a flight booked to San Francisco (to visit my dad) scheduled to leave Canada on July 24th, and not returning until mid-September.
- My question is, do I respond to IRCC NOW while I am in Canada, and explain that I will be leaving? Or do I wait until I am in San Francisco on Thursday to respond and just say that I am in the US, but will be in Canada in September. My main concern is that if I do respond now, while I am in Canada, me leaving will somehow delay the process or flag my progress.
- In their email, they are clear that if I am not in the country when I do respond, they cannot issue a COPR to do a virtual landing (makes sense), but that they also have a backlog of emails and that it might take longer than normal to process. My concern would be that it would take longer than the expiration date of my COPR to generate, even though my application tracker says it won't expire until May 20, 2026.
- I appreciate anyone's input and thoughtfulness when considering my inquiry. I am forever grateful at how relatively straightforward this process has been, and how wonderful online communities have been in helping each other with this process. I hope all of you are having a safe and successful immigration process as well. Thank you <3
