Overseas spouse and dependents of protected person and convention refugee timeline - Share here

[canuck78]

if you have to tell one estimated time then what it should be?

There so many changes happening at once and variable that it is hard to estimate what processing will be for dependents. For example if dependents complete the medicals and there is an irregularity on the chest x-ray, it will take a while to get reviewed because it must be done by IRCC medical staff and then a sputum culture and a repeat chest x-ray will be ordered. The sputum culture and repeat chest x-ray would add at least an additional 3 months to pressing. The 1 time policy has lead to faster processing for protected people and refugees in Canada but the volume of their dependents is increasing very quickly while the annual quota for their PR has not increased to account for the increase in the number of dependents.

 

[canuck78]

Then the important point is that P1 for the principal applicant does not necessarily mean the dependants' PPR will arrive immediately. IRCC can finalize the principal applicant first while the overseas dependants' medical/security processing continues. My rough expectation: if there are no additional issues, the PPR/medical request could come within days to several weeks after P1, but there is no guaranteed timeline. Some overseas dependants can take longer even after the principal applicant receives P1.

Days to several weeks is likely the exception these days. Minor dependents without parents in their home countries may still get this faster processing. It is though to anticipate home many dependents will be added due to the much higher volume of protected people getting PR these days.