PR/BOWP questions

[trune]

Hi all,

I've applied for my Permanent Residency through the Express Entry route. I currently have roughly 4 weeks left on my working holiday permit before I'll need the BOWP to continue to work while IRCC make a decision on my suitability for PR. I've got a couple of questions.
Firstly, I submitted the BOWP today, what is the normal turn around time on a BOWP and what happens if I haven't received notification regarding it prior to my WHP expiry? I would be on implied status, right? Which means as long as I don't leave Canada before receiving BOWP/PR then I am okay?

Secondly, I submitted my application with a bunch of combined extra documents in the Letter of Explanation slot and forgot to add in the Acknowledgement of Receipt for my PR application to this combo file. This seems like a fatal error - can I cancel my BOWP application at all, eat the $155 cost, and re-apply for the BOWP with the AOR included? I'd like to think that IRCC could simply see online that my profile as an acknowledged, submitted PR application, but I'm doubting that it can happen like that. I can't seem to work out another method of getting the AOR to them?
Hoping not to sink my entire series of applications because I was adding additional information into the Letter of Explanation slot and forgot to combine the AOR into the finished document.

Thanks for your help.

 

[garyastudent]

Hi all,

I've applied for my Permanent Residency through the Express Entry route. I currently have roughly 4 weeks left on my working holiday permit before I'll need the BOWP to continue to work while IRCC make a decision on my suitability for PR. I've got a couple of questions.
Firstly, I submitted the BOWP today, what is the normal turn around time on a BOWP and what happens if I haven't received notification regarding it prior to my WHP expiry? I would be on implied status, right? Which means as long as I don't leave Canada before receiving BOWP/PR then I am okay?

Secondly, I submitted my application with a bunch of combined extra documents in the Letter of Explanation slot and forgot to add in the Acknowledgement of Receipt for my PR application to this combo file. This seems like a fatal error - can I cancel my BOWP application at all, eat the $155 cost, and re-apply for the BOWP with the AOR included? I'd like to think that IRCC could simply see online that my profile as an acknowledged, submitted PR application, but I'm doubting that it can happen like that. I can't seem to work out another method of getting the AOR to them?
Hoping not to sink my entire series of applications because I was adding additional information into the Letter of Explanation slot and forgot to combine the AOR into the finished document.

Thanks for your help.

Call the Help desk and I am sure they will ask you to submit the doc through CSE (Case specific Enquiry)/

 

[trune]

Thanks for your reply! I did as you suggested, and then I submitted the document through the case specific enquiry web form, there didn't appear to me a section that exactly applied so I put it through under my Express Entry PR application profile number I'm hoping that is okay? I guess it all I can do now is just wait? I will be on implied status until the BOWP decision comes back, right?

Also, with implied status, if I am to leave Canada at any point during that waiting period for the BOWP then I will lose implied status, correct? A friend is getting married on October 10th in the US, but 16 weeks from today (which I have since found out is the average wait time on the BOWP) puts me to the 16th of October, so cutting it a bit fine there, unless I have a bigger holiday in the US and hope it is sorted out by the time I come back to Canada?
And they could still come back to me at that point and deny my request, right?

Thanks!

 

[trune]

It has come to my attention that I'm pretty much screwed anyway because I have been here on an IEC visa, which explicitly state extensions cannot be granted too, and BOWP and implied status are a type of extension, so I'm not even technically eligible for the BOWP.

Great.