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willapp

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Definitely BS. The real answer is probably no one knows, not some random agent, not any immigration officers, not the immigration minister, not even Trudeau. There is no reason to start giving COPRs if they can't travel. Then it will just expire and they will go into a different category of applicants which creates more burden on IRCC. As long as there are travel restrictions for new immigrants, highly unlikely PPR will be issued for outlanders, especially by CPC Ottawa which is already overworked. And since no one knows when travel restrictions will end, no one can predict when PPRs will be issued. The only thing we can do is hope that the vaccination drive is successful and fast.
Make sense but they don't process US applications either.
 

willapp

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Are you US based too? Same situation here and I'm worried our applications would just get buried and forgotten even after things go back to normal
Yes, it's frustrated that there is no update whatsoever about FSW applications. If they want to meet the quota, there are around 10,000 applications from the US in 2020 but they chose to invite every CEC. There is some PPRs every now and then for FSW but who knows what they are doing with the rest. Many applications were approved already but no PPR was issued.
 
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FurioGiunta

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Make sense but they don't process US applications either.
Yeah this doesn't make sense, because of travel exemptions. Maybe it is easier for them to treat all FSW-O as a single cohort than to pick out applications which have travel exemptions? We can only speculate.
 

willapp

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Yeah this doesn't make sense, because of travel exemptions. Maybe it is easier for them to treat all FSW-O as a single cohort than to pick out applications which have travel exemptions? We can only speculate.
US residents are the only group that is exempted and not given any attention.
They state on their website that priority is given to people who are exempted from travel restriction. And they currently do give priority to residents in Hong Kong and family reunions for example. I don't see if there is any difficulty in doing more.
 

HongKong_EE2020

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US residents are the only group that is exempted and not given any attention.
They state on their website that priority is given to people who are exempted from travel restriction. And they currently do give priority to residents in Hong Kong and family reunions for example. I don't see if there is any difficulty in doing more.
Being one of the applicants from Hong Kong, I can tell currently there is no difference in processing times for EE progress and we, still, cannot travel to Canada as we are not exempted from the current travel restrictions.... I have heard some Hong Kong applications have been idled since January 2020. But I do hope IRCC would speed up our applications

Good luck to all :)
 

willapp

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Being one of the applicants from Hong Kong, I can tell currently there is no difference in processing times for EE progress and we, still, cannot travel to Canada as we are not exempted from the current travel restrictions.... I have heard some Hong Kong applications have been idled since January 2020. But I do hope IRCC would speed up our applications

Good luck to all :)
I was simply referring to what the IRCC states on its website. At least they claim to do so.

Every FSW is frustrated about the process because of the lack of clarity and transparency. I saw some Chinese applications in last August getting approved by the Hong Kong office while I am sure there are many other earlier ones were waiting. Same thing happened to Ottawa office as well. Nobody knows how our applications are processed.
 

vsfedotov

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USA
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FSW
NOC Code......
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US residents are the only group that is exempted and not given any attention.
They state on their website that priority is given to people who are exempted from travel restriction. And they currently do give priority to residents in Hong Kong and family reunions for example. I don't see if there is any difficulty in doing more.
I suppose they're not looking at the US residency of the FSW applicants in a queue. They look at citizenship/passport, and add folks with non-US passports to the "non-exempt" cohort, even if they're in the US. This is the only way I can explain the pace they process (or I'd better say "ignore"?) applications.
 

vsfedotov

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USA
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So, I've got what looks like medicals extension a week ago.
Latest update:
Review of medical results - February 9, 2021:You passed the medical exam.

My previous medicals expired in September.
Has anyone had the same update? What is the current timeline from medicals extension to PPR? Or does it take forever as well?
 

codeheals

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Oct 23, 2018
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Being one of the applicants from Hong Kong, I can tell currently there is no difference in processing times for EE progress and we, still, cannot travel to Canada as we are not exempted from the current travel restrictions.... I have heard some Hong Kong applications have been idled since January 2020. But I do hope IRCC would speed up our applications

Good luck to all :)
Inland CEC Feb 2020 still waiting :)
 

Snagh

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So, I've got what looks like medicals extension a week ago.
Latest update:
Review of medical results - February 9, 2021:You passed the medical exam.

My previous medicals expired in September.
Has anyone had the same update? What is the current timeline from medicals extension to PPR? Or does it take forever as well?
Unfortunately, nobody can answer that for sure now. On the bright side, medical extension is probably the last leg of the application so next step should be PPR whenever that happens!
 
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AnnAlex

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Edmonton
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03-06-2020
Inland CEC Feb 2020 still waiting :)
Have you requested for a GCMS Notes?? Have you had any documents requested from IRCC ?? What's the actual status on your application - I mean "Are you stuck in Security" !!
 
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WPGBound

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I suppose they're not looking at the US residency of the FSW applicants in a queue. They look at citizenship/passport, and add folks with non-US passports to the "non-exempt" cohort, even if they're in the US. This is the only way I can explain the pace they process (or I'd better say "ignore"?) applications.
I'm not aware - have you seen evidence that US passport holders are being added to the "exempt" cohort?