Hello Experts,
Just wanted to check if anyone has applied for PR renewal on compassionate basis and how long did it take IRCC to make a decision? Thanks in advance.
Regards
I am NO expert . . . but I can offer this . . .
I concur with the observations posted by
@scylla and
@canuck78.
However, the timeline for a PRC application relying on H&C reasons is hardly the important thing. The possibility of losing PR status is the far more important question. Whether the application has much chance for success looms larger.
To be clear, there is no point in making a PR card renewal application and relying on H&C reasons unless you are in fact IN CANADA, living in Canada. Indeed, making the PRC application would probably be a very bad idea UNLESS you are back in Canada and living in Canada.
But if you are in fact in Canada, living in Canada, WAITING until you are actually in compliance with the PR Residency Obligation would be a lot, lot safer.
That said, if the H&C reasons are compelling, in the range of having a high probability of success, maybe it would be OK. BUT it is very difficult to figure out what those H&C reasons would be. REMEMBER: the two in five year rule is overtly intended to be liberal enough to accommodate just about any and all reasons why a
PERMANENT RESIDENT of Canada might need to be abroad for an extended period of time. The PR RO allows THREE YEARS abroad.
The PR must be in Canada to make the PR card application, anyway, so when in Canada to make the application
it would be best to go see a lawyer, at the very least, before making a PR card application and before going back abroad.
An attempt to make a PRC application while abroad, and relying on H&C reasons, has a very low probability for success.
Again, the timeline for a PRC application relying on H&C reasons is hardly the important thing. The possibility of losing PR status is the far more important question.
