Post Graduate Work Permit Processing Time (PGWP)
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Yeah hopefully we get this by the end of April but my friend is still waiting for his confirmation as he applied on November 23,2022. All the processing times are confusing and frustrating at the same time. Thanks for your reply.
Hi, I had just seen replies in this thread and I'm new to write something here.
I want to share my flagpole experience yesterday (Mar 29, 2022). I visited one border on Quebec province (There are 2 as far as I know).
First of all, I applied for PGWP in Jan 21, 2022 and had not received anything after WP-EXT letter.
It took around an hour from Montreal, QC to reach the border by a car.
I directly went to the US border and an officer let me proceed to the inspection area.
For flagpole individuals, neither I-94 (Temporary Visa) nor ESTA needed in the US border. Also, no need to take any COVID tests.
After I got an instruction that I need to drive to 'Go to Canada' direction, the officer (US side) gave my passport and documents to me before I went to the Canada side.
I drove through the Canada border and the border officer there asked me the purpose (Work permit-PGWP).
The border office asked me to proceed to the parking area by Canada Border Services Agency office.
I submitted my documents (Passport, Student permit, documents written for an online application - 2 documents in my case, transcript, completion letter) and was asked to wait in the car due to the capacity inside the office.
* For the transcipt, I forgot to bring the sealed one, but I brought the printed official transcipt because I already had the PDF version of it. (And I got approved!)
I arrived there before 1PM (Processing hours: Noon-7PM, Mon-Thur, check here: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/settle-setablir-eng.html) and there are several persons there (but not many).
For me, I spent 1 hour and 40 minutes in the car and got a phone call that I may enter the office.
No biometrics needed in this time. (I paid for the fees without biometrics fee.)
* There was a background check in the application this time. I hadn't had it when I applied for student permit and its extension before.
Because I got angry due to the processing time, I tried flagpoling in this time.
After I came back home, I checked the application numbers of the prior/current PGWP application.
Between two months (Jan 21 - Mar 29), the difference is around 480K. I guess this can be the reason for slow processing if the number increases 1 per application.
If you are urgent, I suggest you to go to the border with full documents.
Hope your best wishes.
I want to share my flagpole experience yesterday (Mar 29, 2022). I visited one border on Quebec province (There are 2 as far as I know).
First of all, I applied for PGWP in Jan 21, 2022 and had not received anything after WP-EXT letter.
It took around an hour from Montreal, QC to reach the border by a car.
I directly went to the US border and an officer let me proceed to the inspection area.
For flagpole individuals, neither I-94 (Temporary Visa) nor ESTA needed in the US border. Also, no need to take any COVID tests.
After I got an instruction that I need to drive to 'Go to Canada' direction, the officer (US side) gave my passport and documents to me before I went to the Canada side.
I drove through the Canada border and the border officer there asked me the purpose (Work permit-PGWP).
The border office asked me to proceed to the parking area by Canada Border Services Agency office.
I submitted my documents (Passport, Student permit, documents written for an online application - 2 documents in my case, transcript, completion letter) and was asked to wait in the car due to the capacity inside the office.
* For the transcipt, I forgot to bring the sealed one, but I brought the printed official transcipt because I already had the PDF version of it. (And I got approved!)
I arrived there before 1PM (Processing hours: Noon-7PM, Mon-Thur, check here: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/settle-setablir-eng.html) and there are several persons there (but not many).
For me, I spent 1 hour and 40 minutes in the car and got a phone call that I may enter the office.
No biometrics needed in this time. (I paid for the fees without biometrics fee.)
* There was a background check in the application this time. I hadn't had it when I applied for student permit and its extension before.
Because I got angry due to the processing time, I tried flagpoling in this time.
After I came back home, I checked the application numbers of the prior/current PGWP application.
Between two months (Jan 21 - Mar 29), the difference is around 480K. I guess this can be the reason for slow processing if the number increases 1 per application.
If you are urgent, I suggest you to go to the border with full documents.
Hope your best wishes.
After 1 hour 40 minutes waiting, I entered the office and the officer let me pay the application fees.
Then, the officer gave me the PGWP paper.
Forgot to mention. The expiry date of my study permit was around August 2022.
Processing time is currently 135 days.
On the website it says they are finalizing applications received Sept 26-October 2
But if you remove 135 days from today, that should be November 15.
November applicants that haven't gotten a response yet should be hopeful for something within the next two weeks
On the website it says they are finalizing applications received Sept 26-October 2
But if you remove 135 days from today, that should be November 15.
November applicants that haven't gotten a response yet should be hopeful for something within the next two weeks