Withdraw and reapply?

[ibimmer]

Ok so I posted a few days ago that I’m stuck on PP due to applying at 1096 days with a ton of travel history.

My dates are 100% accurate and I was in fact in Canada for 1096 days. I only had one discrepancy where I once took the wrong turn into the US border. Turned out I was admitted in on the way back even though I didn’t have my passport on me (found out from cbsa records). I did submit a web form informing them about it and attached the US withdrawal document.

Now I’m a Nov ‘24 AoR. Stuck on PP only for the past 4 months.

Considering withdrawing and reapplying at this stage. This can go on forever. I have north of 1300 days now.

What do you all think? Give it another month? Withdraw and reapply now?

Edit: for everyone to know, my travel records are missing almost all exists and gcms notes state that I only have 781 days of physical presence.

 

[Lavenaa]

If you're Nov AOR you should be coming in on the 10 months processing time quite soon. Maybe you would hear something before the deadline is up?

 

[James Lyrie-Stewart]

It’s not unusual for applicants who applied with very little buffer in physical presence to wait a while for the physical presence to be cleared.

I would absolutely not advise withdrawing and reapplying. Withdrawing can take time and who knows how long that will be.

Right now, the worst case scenario is that IRCC will tell you you don’t meet the physical presence requirement and tell you to resubmit.

OR, the better scenario will be that IRCC will ask you to submit scans of all pages of your passport or some other proof to clear your physical presence. If you are sure you got the calculation right, the you can send in whatever IRCC asks and get your file moving along.

 

[armoured]

I'd order the gcms notes and see what they say before even considering withdrawing.

 

[GFLiam]

Honestly you barely crossed the 8 month mark and you are already thinking about withdrawing and reapplying, look at us from 2023 AOR.

In all seriousness, unless you know what caused your file to get stuck, even if you reapply you may end up at the exact same spot.

 

[ibimmer]

I'd order the gcms notes and see what they say before even considering withdrawing.

I requested a second set of notes 2 weeks ago. First set was received end of April, that’s where I saw the 781 days of physical presence as per cbsa.

Should receive the new ones in a couple of weeks. Let’s see.

 

[ibimmer]

It’s not unusual for applicants who applied with very little buffer in physical presence to wait a while for the physical presence to be cleared.

I would absolutely not advise withdrawing and reapplying. Withdrawing can take time and who knows how long that will be.

Right now, the worst case scenario is that IRCC will tell you you don’t meet the physical presence requirement and tell you to resubmit.

OR, the better scenario will be that IRCC will ask you to submit scans of all pages of your passport or some other proof to clear your physical presence. If you are sure you got the calculation right, the you can send in whatever IRCC asks and get your file moving along.

I wish they would request an interview already. But it’s taking forever with zero progress. This is just not fair.

 

[Seym]

I wish they would request an interview already. But it’s taking forever with zero progress. This is just not fair.

You took a risk willingly, with minimal buffer and ton of travels. There's nothing unfair about seeing bumps in the processing of a complex application by nature of your choices. Yeah it's frustrating, and I understand the venting, but have some perspective. At the end of the day, the service standard for citizenship grant is 12 months. Consider starting to complain in November...
There are people who got their physical presence pass with flying colors, and yet are still stuck for years for stuff they have absolutely no control over.
As for the withdrawing thing, your call, but IRCC litteraly says that reapplying will put you at the end of the queue again, if you wanna do something useful, apart from @armoured 's suggestion above, send a webform with documentation for your physical presence. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio.../news/notices/improving-processing-times.html

 

[James Lyrie-Stewart]

I wish they would request an interview already. But it’s taking forever with zero progress. This is just not fair.

With all due respect, I encourage you to regain composure and have some self-awareness of your extreme privilege of already being a PR of Canada. You already get to call Canada your forever home while so many are still fighting challenges to get PR.

I see no unfairness. You said you had a long travel history and extended leaves and still you applied with almost zero buffer when it's common advice to have at least a week to 30 days. I only had an 8-day trip during my eligibility period and I submitted with a 5-day buffer. In additional to that, you had a discrepancy in your physical presence calculation, which certainly wouldn't help. If you had done your due diligence of triple-checking your calculations, you could have easily avoided this—I checked and re-checked my calculation at least like 10 times over the course of a few weeks because I knew physical presence is a common pitfall.

It is so well-reported that applying with minimal buffer in physical presence will result in extra scrutiny. Many applicants with long travel history even submitted the full CBSA records as additional documents when applying—did you do that?

I don't see this as unfair at all—IRCC is just doing their job.

 

[Copingwithlife]

Ok so I posted a few days ago that I’m stuck on PP due to applying at 1096 days with a ton of travel history.

My dates are 100% accurate and I was in fact in Canada for 1096 days. I only had one discrepancy where I once took the wrong turn into the US border. Turned out I was admitted in on the way back even though I didn’t have my passport on me (found out from cbsa records). I did submit a web form informing them about it and attached the US withdrawal document.

Now I’m a Nov ‘24 AoR. Stuck on PP only for the past 4 months.

Considering withdrawing and reapplying at this stage. This can go on forever. I have north of 1300 days now.

What do you all think? Give it another month? Withdraw and reapply now?

Edit: for everyone to know, my travel records are missing almost all exists and gcms notes state that I only have 781 days of physical presence.

Why would you apply with ONE day buffer , and as you mentioned tons of travel history ?

And subsequently complain about it

Of any department the citizenship department is THE strictest. They are giving citizenship.