PR confirmation portal timelines

[Andres0]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

1) Slow processing and lack of transparency. They say we're in a queue, but their queue is not based on portal submission dates. Would be nice to have some transparency about how the queue is formed. Also, they should publish processing times like they do for different streams, PR Card etc.

2) I'm okay with the virtual landing and would prefer it this way. If only they could issue the eCOPR automatically after submitting the in-Canada declaration.

 

[respect72]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

I believe , for everyone it is time delay for eCOPR after submitting your presence and photos. It couldn`t be 2 or 3 months of waiting when you have been checked for everything.
Also, let`s IRCC or government explain to people the procedure of eCOPR issuing? All documents already checked, so what staff should do for eCOPR exctracting?

 

[respect72]

In the beginning of the year, people got the eCOPR at the same day or next day after answering for portal 2.
But now it seems they don`t want to work.

 

[Ahmedypep]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

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[Ahmedypep]

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[chenkmuruki]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

Why the straightforward procedure that took 15 minutes to do in person now is a waiting nightmare with months people spent in limbo waiting for eCOPR. Why IRCC doesn't want to go back to in-person service? IRCC can allow us to do a flagpole at the CA/US border and the issue will be resolved.

 

[Jashn105]

Its so frustrating, many people who received their portal in oct are getting their ecopr however, there are many who are waiting from august and September.
why don't they follow a queue.

 

[canadapr2023cecinland]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

If we check our Tracker there is already a COPR Number and an expiry date to it which indicates that it COPR details are partially ready. All they are required to do is verify our declaration and other details, yet it is taking so long. The wait times are insane.

 

[Msvaleri]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

1) This process is not fast as suppose to be or there no way to track. 2) It would be so much better if we know where we stand in the line when we expect our Ecopr

 

[Andres0]

Why the straightforward procedure that took 15 minutes to do in person now is a waiting nightmare with months people spent in limbo waiting for eCOPR. Why IRCC doesn't want to go back to in-person service? IRCC can allow us to do a flagpole at the CA/US border and the issue will be resolved.

That's not better than virtual. It used to take only a couple days for eCOPR and that's how it should be all the time. Having to flagpole is worse in many ways: takes time, expensive and some people need a visa for the US. The virtual system is an improvement, they just need to fix these ridiculous delays.

 

[makaloo]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

The uncertainty around the entire process is unacceptable. If this is already approved, then it should not take this long for anyone to issue the eCOPR. If they are backlogged, that is understandable and there are ways of handling a situation like this. At the very least, if they can communicate and set expectations on their processing times, that would help alleviate some of the anxiety and unpredictability with this process.

 

[dvdmrn]

That's not better than virtual. It used to take only a couple days for eCOPR and that's how it should be all the time. Having to flagpole is worse in many ways: takes time, expensive and some people need a visa for the US. The virtual system is an improvement, they just need to fix these ridiculous delays.

I don't think the virtual landing issues can be fixed in the short term. I'm guessing that's why some of us choose to be more pragmatic and advocate for the "lesser evil," which would be flagpoling. BTW, I think you don't need a US visa to flagpole since you won't be entering the US anyway, but in my case I would need the good old immigrant visa stamp to re-enter Canada.

 

[lilmsfoodie]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

I'm not sure if you can still read this but main complaints are:

1. VOs not being responsive (I get it that they are busy but that should assign someone I think to look at these delays)
2. No visibility on where you are on the queue (knowing that you've been approved already but not getting any updates). They will instead make you wait for God knows how long.
3. They are not being considerate of other people's plans.

 

[Saif11]

Hey everyone, I will be meeting with the Toronto Star immigration journalist in one hour. If you've submitted your declaration of presence in Canada and you're still waiting for your eCoPR, please reply with 1) your main complaint about this process and 2) an immediate alternative you would like to be offered since the virtual landing system is not working as it's supposed to

You can also refer him a lots of people tweeted to IRCC and Mac Miller by for eCOPR

 

[Krosshunt]

Just for information: I emailed IRCC PR Portal email to expedite my eCOPR as I had an urgent task dependent on it. They replied me 20 days later with below response:

"Dear client,
Thank you for your email.
Your application is in our virtual landing queue.
Given our current processing capacity, there are delays in processing the high volume of files.
We will contact you directly once your file is ready for finalization.
Please note that we will not be responding to follow-up inquiries."

So, we can't do anything except wait.

VO Montreal
Portal 2: Sept 15, 2023

That is awful! Just pathetic, treating us like robots.