hello! just wanted to share my timeline since i have been reading everyone else's (without an account for months) and it helped me have an idea to when mine will arrive.
i lost my pr card at school around 2018 because as a newcomer that time, i thought it made sense to bring it with me everywhere i went, specially when a certain president was elected just across the border, i thought it was a good thing to do just in case somebody will point out that i am not from here. anyway, because i knew i will not leave canada anytime soon, i waited until an entire pandemic happened before i applied for a replacement lol.
i sent my application through xpresspost on july 15, 2021 and since it had a tracking number i knew it arrived on july 18, 2021. after that i didn't receive any confirmation or any kind of status update from the case processing centre in nova scotia. (i am from alberta and became a permanent resident in july 2017)
fast forward to october 25, 2021, i finally got an email with the application number in the subject line and my UCI number in the actual email. it was a confirmation letting me know that they received my application package on july 19, 2021. from that email, i tracked my application status on the IRCC website with the information given to me and it said that they sent an acknowledgement receipt on the same day and the decision was made on the same day as well (october 25, 2021).
since then i checked it every single day and just slowly went insane because there weren't any kind of status update and i was so desperate that i just went and typed all the keywords i could think of on the internet just to have any kind of information to when i could possibly receive my pr card or know what kind of decision they actually made on that day and why i can't know it right away and that's how i discovered this forum haha.
so i just waited and read every new update on this forum while i also put in the UCI number on the website every day hoping there's a new update. i know that the processing time on their website is not really accurate but i also made it a decision factor to when i should send a web form so i actually sent one the moment it exceeded the current days that were supposedly the "processing times" how did i know that? i googled "days since july 19, 2021" because i am not very good at math hahaha
finally on the morning (aka the first thing i check from waking up) of december 3, 2021 (the day after my application exceeded the processing times) there was a new update saying they sent my card through mail on december 2, 2021. at this moment, i knew the universe was praying for my downfall because why would they do that right when i already sent a webform?? i was so happy but also wanted to fight somebody at the same time
speaking of webforms, on december 5, 2021, they sent me an email with an automatic response letting me know that they received my form and it might take some time to reply. the next day (lol) they responded saying that they are pleased to let me know that they sent my pr card to my address on december 2, 2021 and i was thinking GURL I ALREADY KNOW *insert crying emoji*
so i wrote all of this because finally i received my card in the mail this afternoon, december 13, 2021. thank you all for sharing your timeline on here because if it didn't exist, i might've turned into an actual monster.
so basically here's the actual timeline if you don't wanna read all that word vomit:
i sent it on july 15 from alberta, they received/opened it on july 19 in nova scotia, decision made/receipt on october 25, sent by mail on december 2, received it december 13.
i lost my pr card at school around 2018 because as a newcomer that time, i thought it made sense to bring it with me everywhere i went, specially when a certain president was elected just across the border, i thought it was a good thing to do just in case somebody will point out that i am not from here. anyway, because i knew i will not leave canada anytime soon, i waited until an entire pandemic happened before i applied for a replacement lol.
i sent my application through xpresspost on july 15, 2021 and since it had a tracking number i knew it arrived on july 18, 2021. after that i didn't receive any confirmation or any kind of status update from the case processing centre in nova scotia. (i am from alberta and became a permanent resident in july 2017)
fast forward to october 25, 2021, i finally got an email with the application number in the subject line and my UCI number in the actual email. it was a confirmation letting me know that they received my application package on july 19, 2021. from that email, i tracked my application status on the IRCC website with the information given to me and it said that they sent an acknowledgement receipt on the same day and the decision was made on the same day as well (october 25, 2021).
since then i checked it every single day and just slowly went insane because there weren't any kind of status update and i was so desperate that i just went and typed all the keywords i could think of on the internet just to have any kind of information to when i could possibly receive my pr card or know what kind of decision they actually made on that day and why i can't know it right away and that's how i discovered this forum haha.
so i just waited and read every new update on this forum while i also put in the UCI number on the website every day hoping there's a new update. i know that the processing time on their website is not really accurate but i also made it a decision factor to when i should send a web form so i actually sent one the moment it exceeded the current days that were supposedly the "processing times" how did i know that? i googled "days since july 19, 2021" because i am not very good at math hahaha
finally on the morning (aka the first thing i check from waking up) of december 3, 2021 (the day after my application exceeded the processing times) there was a new update saying they sent my card through mail on december 2, 2021. at this moment, i knew the universe was praying for my downfall because why would they do that right when i already sent a webform?? i was so happy but also wanted to fight somebody at the same time
speaking of webforms, on december 5, 2021, they sent me an email with an automatic response letting me know that they received my form and it might take some time to reply. the next day (lol) they responded saying that they are pleased to let me know that they sent my pr card to my address on december 2, 2021 and i was thinking GURL I ALREADY KNOW *insert crying emoji*
so i wrote all of this because finally i received my card in the mail this afternoon, december 13, 2021. thank you all for sharing your timeline on here because if it didn't exist, i might've turned into an actual monster.
so basically here's the actual timeline if you don't wanna read all that word vomit:
i sent it on july 15 from alberta, they received/opened it on july 19 in nova scotia, decision made/receipt on october 25, sent by mail on december 2, received it december 13.
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