Okay... just to confirm, if you were given the choice to return to your home country and wait there, but in return your PR would be ready in eight months and then you could come back to Canada as a full PR - you'd take that deal?
So I was trying to demonstrate why no one in this position should want to sacrifice protection in the name of faster processing.
(I suppose at this point it's academic - I'm not sure when
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...pplementary-immigration-levels-2026-2028.html came out but it seems like the plan from the current administration is for approved refugees and protected persons to get their PR within the next two years from now. The gov't here wants to both give you protection and faster processing. Edit: Basically I greatly underestimated the ability of the current admin to find a way to navigate this and find a solution in the current political climate. Mea culpa - but I'm also happy that they were able to do this.)
Hmm. So my home country is one that is currently run by clowns and sinks deeper and deeper into human rights abuses every day. It gets worse and worse. In a world where the status of a country itself didn't matter, I probably could stake out such a claim successfully.
But here's why I won't. The PR granted to an approved refugee is actually inferior to that granted via other pathways. I came in via an economic stream, and got my PR that way. The benefit is that I don't have to worry about cessation. Right now, even though I may not like to do so, I can travel to my home country and renew my national passport without worry.
If I were to renounce my PR, make my refugee claim, and get approved, and obtain PR again as a refugee, then this changes. Even after receiving PR, I must use an RTD and be careful not to travel to my home country ever, except in the most extreme of circumstances - and even then only with the approval of a lawyer experienced in this area. Failure to follow this rule could cause me to lose my PR entirely and I may even be forced to leave Canada.
The other aspect here is - a refugee who has PR of Canada is in a slightly more secure position than an approved refugee who lacks it. So one can value protection over fast process but still apply for and hope for PR w/o being some sort of
