Waiting for PR Card after landing - add your case here

[kushari]

Hi , joining the thread.

I landed today, April, 2nd at Rainbow Bridge.
According to the immigration officer I am supposed to receive a PRC in 6-9 weeks.

So timer's on

I've added you and meonlyme to the spreadsheet. I also pasted the formula for the next coming 10 or so people so when they type in their date it automatically adjusts. That's why the spreadsheet looks messed up with old dates for now.

 

[chloe2013]

still waiting for my PR card,landed last Mar 2.
I checked CIC processing time now is 37 days it used to be 51 days.

 

[kushari]

still waiting for my PR card,landed last Mar 2.
I checked CIC processing time now is 37 days it used to be 51 days.

Oh great! Nice! Thanks for the heads up! That's greats news! 14 days faster processing.

 

[jazibkg]

Me and my family landed on 21 JANUARY 2014 at Vancouver International Airport, however it is 4 April 2014 and we have not received our PR cards yet. When we called the CIC call centre 2 days back, CIC couldn't locate our PR card application. Neither does it show a separate box for the PRC on the ECAS - the ECAS only shows our permanent residence application from outside Canada (the immigration application ie) and when clicked on 'complete' shows that we landed at Vancouver International Airport office on 21/1/14. At the time of landing, we provided our correct house address in Canada (a rental house was already arranged by my sister prior to my arrival in Canada) for receipt of PR card.

Current processing times for PRC for new PR are shown as a mere 37 calendar days on processing times on CIC website.

However, today is the 74th day since landing in Vancouver and our expectations were to have received the PRC within a realistic timescale of 8 weeks.

I am stuck outside Canada as I traveled to the UK due to my work commitments and my booked flight back to Vancouver is coming up on 15 April 2014, not even enough time to get a PR travel document from High Commission of Canada in London, England. I was counting on the PR card arriving within realistic timescale and my family couriering it to me. I am a Pakistani passport holder without a US visa, so I cannot switch my destination flight to Seattle and drive to the land WA-BC land border by road.

It is a very big inconvenience and we're feeling frustrated by the inefficiency of CIC in this regard. Feeling helpless. What to do? Should we be worried? Is there a probability our PR card application got lost in transit from British Columbia to Nova Scotia? Or is it an automatic computerized procedure? Or a possibility that due to human error or negligence, Vancouver officials never forwarded our application to Nova Scotia CIC?

 

[cecstatchk]

Hi, I landed on Apr 02. I dont see COMPLETE in ECAS.

Is that normal ?

I landed in Queenston-Lewiston Bridge.

 

[iam_toby]

Hi, I landed on Apr 02. I dont see COMPLETE in ECAS.

Is that normal ?

I landed in Queenston-Lewiston Bridge.

Yes, it takes a couple of days in order to update...

 

[cecstatchk]

Yes, it takes a couple of days in order to update...

Thanks Toby

 

[dbss]

no PR card yet......it has been 44 days now...

it does not even show up on my ECAS...called Call centre and they said they will put in a request to know the status.

 

[guri3577]

Landed on 25th Feb., nothing yet.

 

[ranjan667]

landed 25 feb. nothing yet

 

[jazibkg]

Landed on 21 January '14 and nothing yet

 

[capn b]

Any way to rush pr card? i know for my passport there is a rush option just costs alot of money,anything like that?

Also I had an employer say to me I cant hire on with them till i get my card ( we had been talking about me becoming pr) is that unusual or normal? maybe they just meant my new sin card ?

 

[kushari]

Any way to rush pr card? i know for my passport there is a rush option just costs alot of money,anything like that?

Also I had an employer say to me I cant hire on with them till i get my card ( we had been talking about me becoming pr) is that unusual or normal? maybe they just meant my new sin card ?

Yeah it says on the CIC website how to go abouts doing this.

 

[Johnny31]

Any way to rush pr card? i know for my passport there is a rush option just costs alot of money,anything like that?

Also I had an employer say to me I cant hire on with them till i get my card ( we had been talking about me becoming pr) is that unusual or normal? maybe they just meant my new sin card ?

Here -

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/pr-card/apply-urgent-processing.asp

 

[iam_toby]

Here -

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/pr-card/apply-urgent-processing.asp

As far as I know, this only applies to PR card renewals, not for new cards.