PR Visa might expire before we receive CoPR...??

[SteveVanCan]

Hi,
My Japanese wife has applied for Permanent Residency last September and is in Canada on a visitor visa. She applied for the PR from outside Canada. She received this email, posted below, on August 2, 2017 stating that she needed to reply via email right away and then send passport copy, two passport pictures, a form stating family members and a self-addressed expresspost envelope to Ottawa. She was told she must be able to enter by August 17. It's not a problem to cross over the border by the 17th because we're in Vancouver and we're close to the border. We're not sure why it says in this email that they tried to contact us many times. They have all our information and she has received many emails before this one. No one tried to contact me via mail or email.

Does anyone know if this CoPR will be mailed out with a later expiry date? It seems unlikely that they will get it to Vancouver before August 17 as Monday is the 14th and the return tracking number isn't in use yet.

Would it make a difference if we go down and cross back into Canada before the 17th? Will that keep the CoPR valid somehow?

Thanks

Dear Applicant:


This refers to your application for permanent residence in Canada.


Your visa(s) for permanent residence to Canada is/are ready to be issued, conditional to a final admissibility review by an immigration officer. Your visa(s) will be valid for your initial entry to Canada until 08/17/2017 (mm/dd/yyyy).


Please advise our office by replying to this e-mail not later than August 04,2017 if you can arrive in Canada before the expiry of your visa(s). We have been trying to contact you and your sponsor regarding this matter multiple times but to no avail.


If we do not receive a response by August 04, 2017 we will take it to mean that you cannot leave before 08/17/2017 (mm/dd/yyyy), and we will send another medical instruction in order for you to renew your medical for the continuation of your application.


NOTE: Your visa, when issued, will be valid until 17 AUGUST 2017. The validity of a visa may not be extended and cannot be replaced with a new validity date. If you do not arrive in Canada before the date of expiry of your visa, it will be forfeited. If you still wish to go to Canada, you will be required to make a new application for a permanent residence visa (including paying a new application processing fee and meeting all selection and statutory requirements, with the appropriate processing times and delays).

 

[screech339]

I thought having a COPR would allow you to fly to Canada and land, regardless of whether one person has a Visa or not. There are many spouses who never step foot outside their country.

 

[SteveVanCan]

I thought having a COPR would allow you to fly to Canada and land, regardless of whether one person has a Visa or not. There are many spouses who never step foot outside their country.

Perhaps you didn't read the attached email from CIC. We don't have the CoPR yet. It is in process in Ottawa. It seems highly unlikely to be in Vancouver by Thursday but the CIC in the last email stated this:

"Your visa, when issued, will be valid until 17 AUGUST 2017. The validity of a visa may not be extended and cannot be replaced with a new validity date."

The questions I asked were:

1) Does anyone know if this CoPR will be mailed out with a later expiry date?

2) Would it make a difference if we go down [to the USA] and cross back into Canada before the 17th?

Thanks

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Perhaps you didn't read the attached email from CIC. We don't have the CoPR yet. It is in process in Ottawa. It seems highly unlikely to be in Vancouver by Thursday but the CIC in the last email stated this:

"Your visa, when issued, will be valid until 17 AUGUST 2017. The validity of a visa may not be extended and cannot be replaced with a new validity date."

The questions I asked were:

1) Does anyone know if this CoPR will be mailed out with a later expiry date?

2) Would it make a difference if we go down [to the USA] and cross back into Canada before the 17th?

Thanks

Hi

1. If you replied saying you could land by the 17th, then that is what it will be dated. If it does not arrive by the 17th, you will need to return it. As stated in the email, they will likely request a new medical to reissue the COPR with a new validity.

2. Flagpoling won't do anything. COPR expires one year from the date of the medical.

 

[SteveVanCan]

Oh, okay. I was hoping that since the email said a Visa was valid until the 17th this meant something different than CoPR being valid until then. Haha, I didn't know what flagpoling meant, thanks Google. She is from an advance Visa waiver country so we'd just go down for the day as visitors and return to Canada and start another visitor visa. I thought something might change because it would make sense that all this information should appear on the CBSA agents entry computer system. I guess this isn't as high tech as it could be. Thanks

 

[Amronavich]

Perhaps you didn't read the attached email from CIC. We don't have the CoPR yet. It is in process in Ottawa. It seems highly unlikely to be in Vancouver by Thursday but the CIC in the last email stated this:

"Your visa, when issued, will be valid until 17 AUGUST 2017. The validity of a visa may not be extended and cannot be replaced with a new validity date."

The questions I asked were:

1) Does anyone know if this CoPR will be mailed out with a later expiry date?

2) Would it make a difference if we go down [to the USA] and cross back into Canada before the 17th?

Thanks

Im in a similar situation my visa expiry date is 25 january 2018 and i havent received my COPR but they asked for the passports 5 month ago and they got the passports 4 month and a half and still didn't get the COPR it seems from ur thread that the visa expiry date is a very important date which i didnt think it was all i thought that if u exceeded the date u would just renew ur medicals Answer to question 1) if u replied before 4 august no i dont think they will issue and deliver the COPR no later than 17th of august and even if they did it will be their responsibility then 2)wouldn't make a difference as long as u land in canada on or before 17th of august

 

[SteveVanCan]

Im in a similar situation my visa expiry date is 25 january 2018 and i havent received my COPR but they asked for the passports 5 month ago and they got the passports 4 month and a half and still didn't get the COPR it seems from ur thread that the visa expiry date is a very important date which i didnt think it was all i thought that if u exceeded the date u would just renew ur medicals Answer to question 1) if u replied before 4 august no i dont think they will issue and deliver the COPR no later than 17th of august and even if they did it will be their responsibility then 2)wouldn't make a difference as long as u land in canada on or before 17th of august

I was hoping that a new entry before the 17th and a new tourists Visa would do something official but an earlier comment suggests otherwise. August 17th is the one year anniversary of the medical examination which will apparently expire. This CIC email says that that the visa will expire and a new application would need to be submitted. I hope we don't have to pay everything again. That would be ridiculous.


NOTE: Your visa, when issued, will be valid until 17 AUGUST 2017. The validity of a visa may not be extended and cannot be replaced with a new validity date. If you do not arrive in Canada before the date of expiry of your visa, it will be forfeited. If you still wish to go to Canada, you will be required to make a new application for a permanent residence visa (including paying a new application processing fee and meeting all selection and statutory requirements, with the appropriate processing times and delays).

 

[Amronavich]

I was hoping that a new entry before the 17th and a new tourists Visa would do something official but an earlier comment suggests otherwise. August 17th is the one year anniversary of the medical examination which will apparently expire. This CIC email says that that the visa will expire and a new application would need to be submitted. I hope we don't have to pay everything again. That would be ridiculous.


NOTE: Your visa, when issued, will be valid until 17 AUGUST 2017. The validity of a visa may not be extended and cannot be replaced with a new validity date. If you do not arrive in Canada before the date of expiry of your visa, it will be forfeited. If you still wish to go to Canada, you will be required to make a new application for a permanent residence visa (including paying a new application processing fee and meeting all selection and statutory requirements, with the appropriate processing times and delays).

Yes the earlier comment is right u have to receive the copr first then get it signed by the officer with the landing date I really hope aswell it will only be bounded to renewing medicals because redoing the whole thing is really time consuming best of luck for you

 

[Masonb6888]

Any update on this?