I received my P1 while outside Canada on Oct. 9, I replied to the email and declared that I am outside Canada and my return date. IRCC replied on Oct. 16th sayinv to reply on the same email when I return with the needed information, I did reply on 17th.

Until now, I havent received my P2. Anyone who has experienced the same? How long ahould I wait for P2?

Has anyone applied for an open work permit without an AOR after submitting a spousal or common-law sponsorship application because their current status was set to expire within 2 weeks?

If so, did you include a letter of explanation stating that you were applying without an AOR because your current status was expiring within the 2-week window, in accordance with IRCC’s policy?

Or were you approved without including a separate explanation letter?

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences!

It says that the server is down, on my end.

Just curious if it says the same for y'all too

Hi everyone, I need some advice from anyone who has experienced something similar.

What happened:

On July 26, 2026, my friend and I visited Niagara Falls, Ontario. We decided to stop at the duty-free shop without knowing that its exit leads directly to the US border.

After leaving the duty-free shop, we accidentally reached US immigration. I immediately told the officer that we had taken a wrong turn and wanted to return to Canada.

I had a valid US visa, but I wasn’t carrying my passport because I had no plans to visit the USA.

The officer checked my driver’s licence and directed us to secondary inspection. After processing, I was given a US immigration document and sent back to Canada.

We returned to Canada, where CBSA officers also checked my information.

This was genuinely an accidental wrong turn. I never intended to enter the USA.

My Canadian immigration situation:

March 2025: Submitted my Home Support Worker Pilot PR application.
April 2026: Submitted my OINP Employer Job Offer application.
July 2026: Accidental US border incident happened.
September 2026: My OINP nomination was approved.
October 2026: Applied for an LMIA-exempt work permit extension based on my OINP nomination.
I am currently on maintained status.

My concern:

In my work permit extension application (IMM 5710), the question about previously being refused entry to another country was answered “No.”

At the time, I did not properly understand whether this accidental border incident needed to be declared.

After discussing it with my immigration lawyer, he advised that we should:

Submit an IRCC webform explaining the incident and correcting the answer on my pending work permit extension.
Update my existing federal Home Support Worker Pilot PR application.
Disclose the incident in my upcoming federal PNP PR application.
Not reopen or attempt to change my already-approved OINP application, which was originally submitted before the incident.

My questions:

Has anyone experienced an accidental US border entry at Niagara Falls and received US immigration paperwork?
Does this type of incident count as a formal refusal of entry?
Could correcting my work permit application through an IRCC webform cause problems or be treated as misrepresentation?
Since my OINP nomination has already been approved, could this incident affect my nomination?
Is updating IRCC sufficient, or should I also notify OINP about the incident that happened while my nomination application was processing?

I’m trying to be completely transparent with immigration authorities and correct any mistakes.

Has anyone experienced something similar and successfully received their Canadian work permit or PR?

Thank you!

Hey everyone,

​Quick question for anyone who has applied through OINP with university post-grad certificates:

​I completed two consecutive 1-year postgraduate certificates at York University (School of Continuing Studies)

Do university-issued post-grad certificates from York qualify you as a "Recent Graduate" for the lower work experience threshold and low wage requirement? or do they strictly look for an Ontario College Graduate Certificate?

I work under noc 11100 and I make less than the median wage.

Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone,
I have completed my MBA from Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ), India, and I’m planning to apply for Canadian Permanent Residency through Express Entry.
I would like to know if anyone who completed their MBA from MUJ has obtained an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) through WES, IQAS, CES, or ICAS.
I have a few questions:
Which ECA organization did you use?
What Canadian equivalency did you receive for your MBA? Was it assessed as a master’s degree or a postgraduate diploma?
Was your MBA regular, online, or distance learning?
How was the experience with the evaluation process, and how long did it take?
Would you recommend WES or another organization for an MBA from MUJ?
I would really appreciate it if anyone who has completed this process could share their actual ECA results and experience. It would help me decide which organization to choose before applying.
Thank you in advance for your help!

My wife has a year long visitor's record that's expiring in November. Last month we just got the AOR for her PR application. We have applied for her Open Work Permit and I am wondering if we will need to redo her visitors record as well, or if the pending OWP will take its place to maintain her status.

She's never applied for an OPW before, this is the first one.

Hello guys , i have a Canadian Pr and my fiance is australian , we’re planing for her to move to canada after we get married , what is the proper pathway ? and if anybody has experianced this situation please comment , can we apply for the sponsorship while she stays in canada untill she get approved ?

Hi everyone i want some suggestions about it
As I am planning to Travel India from Toronto to Delhi in End of January 2027 and coming back first week of March.
And my Passport expiring on 6 July 2027 and Canadian TRV as well expiring same date and My open work permit as well expires on 6 July 2027. And My spousal sponsorship PR application is still processing.
I want to ask that will i get entry in Canada without issue.

Spouse open work permit is refused due to no AOR

- applied for common law sponsorship (outland) on September. I am in canada and living with my partner. Even it is outland, if you have the valid status and are living together with your partner in Canada, we can apply for open work permit.

- applied for spouse open work permit 13 days before my current work permit expire without AOR. We attached all documents are required and followed IRCC guide on their website including copy of current work permit and the email confirming that you’ve successfully submitted your permanent residence application.

- my application is refused due to no AOR. on refusal letter, they mentioned that they can see prospective file for my PR but have not received AOR yet so refused.

I have searched about it online and I think it was recommended to include a letter of explanation with direct screenshots of the government website proving we are legally allowed to submit under this 2 weeks window.

And one of my coworkers also had applied for the spouse open work permit and he included those in their application and he's application was approved.

I also asked another immigration consultant to have another my opinion about this situation, and they also asked me whether I attached the proper a letter of explanation together.

We used the immigration representative but she did not attached any of them.

Can It be the representative's fault?

Hello. About 7 days before my hearing was scheduled, I received a notice stating that the hearing had been postponed and that the intervention of the Minister of Immigration had been requested in relation to my participation in active military service. That service is mandatory in my country, but I have never harmed people or public places. It is true that during military service I carried weapons, but only within military units and solely as part of my training. However, they allege that my case must be reviewed under Article 1A(f) of the Refugee Convention.

If anyone has been through something similar, please explain what evidence you presented to defend yourselves, because the only thing I have is witness statements; I do not have any documents or personal evidence, other than general information available on the internet about military service in my country. I already tried to contact my legal representative, but for the moment they are not responding. That is why I am asking anyone in the group who has experience with a similar situation.

Thank you to the admins for accepting my post.

Hi,
I have an active registration of BC PNP in place and noticed a typo in the employer's number I wrote in the registration form.
I haven't gotten the ITA yet.
Is it ok to withdraw my application and resubmit a new one?
or providing the updated number in Employer declaration form is sufficient?

Note: I withdrew a registration earlier last week as well to fix a problem with the work experience.
This will be my second time.

Not sure if it negatively affects the application.

Thanks for answering.

Started my Canadian job in early 2026. I'll be in my home country for about 6 weeks: the middle 2 weeks are PTO, and the weeks before and after are remote work (remote work doesn't count — I know that). I’ll be claiming points for 1 year of Canada experience.

Two questions:

1. Will an officer actually credit those 2 PTO weeks, given they're surrounded by remote work abroad?Has anyone faced issues with it? What proofs can I show?
   
2. How do you decide whether to accept or decline an ITA when you can't know in advance whether the officer will credit the PTO? Is declining until you're at 52 weeks even with zero vacation credit the only safe approach?

Thanks!

Hi everyone. My work permit extension was approved on October 2. I have been waiting since then to receive my new work permit in the mail. I have a terminally ill family member just across the US border. I called IRCC a few times and have received mixed opinions on whether I would be readmitted or not with just my notice letter.

Does anyone have experience with a similar situation?

Thank you ☺️

We received an email from IRCC yesterday (applied for spousal sponsorship on august 30th) but we're unsure if it's the AOR because it's not labeled at such ... it does include an application number and a UCI. Does that mean that our application was complete and it will now go through the process or can it still ve rejected for being incomplete? How do we link the application to gckey? I created a gckey account and entered the information to link but says it wasn't working, can it take couple days before we find it? Also is it normal that I (the sponsor) received the email instead of the PA?

Unsure if we should be happy yet or if that all means nothing for now haha!

Thanks a lot and have a great day! :)

I applied for Citizenship grant in May 2025, background and test completed, nothing happened since Aug 2025.

I assume that my application needs to be reviewed by a senior IRCC MAYBE because:

1. I did not provide a police certificate. (I was living in country of Origin prior becoming a PR)
2. Country of origin is different that country of birth
3. In my GCMS notes I see Restricted Notes: Y

Anybody else in my situation? How long can be this delay? Nobody is telling me anything.

I currently hold a Post Graduation Work Visa and am applying for Common Law Sponsorship with my partner of several years.

The current wait time for PR processing is close to two years, which is way past my visa expiry date. A lot of the wording/explanation online is ambiguous, and potentially out of date. I’m looking clarification/confirmation. If I submit my application for Sponsorship PR before my visa expires, do I retain all of my current permissions to remain in Canada, including my open right to work? Or will I be required to apply for an entirely new work permit? Would I need to apply for a Visitor Record to extend my current right to work/stay in Canada?

Thank you!

CEC, AOR Aug 2025. Eligibility, criminality and medical passed Dec 2025. Security screening open since, no refusal or PFL.

CBSA ATIP shows A34 Comprehensive, no adverse info. Already tried: MP inquiry, ATIPs to IRCC, CSIS, RCMP and CBSA, calls and emails to CBSA, IRCC webforms, OPC complaints, and a mandamus consult.

Has anyone in A34 Comprehensive moved after 10+ months? What finally did it, and is mandamus worth it when the file is with CBSA?

I am studying medicine in turkey and am expected to graduate in 2028. I have Moroccan citizenship. And, my final year of med school consists of full time paid clinical internships/rotations in Turkish hospitals. I don’t have Canadian PR or work experience.

I know that Canadian PR is generally required to apply for residency through CaRMS, I’m trying to figure out whether obtaining PR after graduation is realistic.

I have a few questions:

1. FWSP eligibility: could my final year internships count towards the required skilled work experience, considering it’s part of my medical degree and fully paid for 12 months.

2. Healthcare Express Entry: could I be qualified for healthcare category based selection or would I need postgraduate work experience as a licensed physician?

3. Other PR pathways: Are there any realistic Express Entry or PNP options for a newly graduated international medical student without Canadian work experience?

4. Timeline: Assuming I qualify for an immigration pathway, how realistic would it be to obtain PR in time to apply for Canadian residency shortly after graduating in 2028?

I would really appreciate any advice or experiences from people who’ve navigated something similar.

Sharing our experience in case others have seen the second part of this, because I can't find anything like it.

I'm in Oakville. As my parents-in-law's authorized representative, I applied for their Canadian visitor visas from Canada in March 2024. My father-in-law is a retired Colonel of the Indian Army.

Their eligibility was passed. The file then went into security screening, where it has been for over two years. Our MP's office has been told the extended screening is linked to his military background. Every document requested was provided, and since April 2026 IRCC has told our MP the same thing: security verifications pending, no further documents required from us. Thirty-one months after applying, there is still no decision on that file — not a refusal, just no decision.

In November 2025 I filed a second application for them. On 21 September 2026, CPC–Ottawa closed it by letter. The letter says, "as per your request," a passport is being returned without a visa, the file is closed, and no fees are refundable because processing had started before "your withdrawal request" was received.

The problem: nobody requested a withdrawal. I'm the only person with access to the portal account, and I went through every email I've ever sent to IRCC, the Delhi visa office, and my MP's office — there is no withdrawal request in any of them. No passport was ever submitted for that second application either, so there is no passport to return.

Since then: webforms on 5 and 7 October got document-receipt acknowledgements but no substantive answer. On 22 October IRCC emailed that this closed application's status had been "updated" — I signed in and nothing had visibly changed; it still shows closed. On 23 October I filed another webform formally asking IRCC to produce the withdrawal request they relied on (when it was received, how, and from whom) and to reinstate the application if they can't. Still waiting on a substantive reply.

My questions for anyone who's been through something similar:

1. Has IRCC ever closed your file based on a withdrawal you didn't make? What did you do, and did they reinstate it?

2. For security screening that runs for years with eligibility passed — did anything actually move it (ATIP notes, reconsideration, mandamus), or is waiting the only real option?

Not looking for legal advice, just comparing notes with people who've lived it. Thanks.

Hi! Just wondering if anyone has the same case as me.

I received Final Decision October 17,2026 and got the PPR October 18,2026 but we never received the Portal 1/P1 email. We replied to the webform that main applicant and spouse are in Canada but minor dependent is in the Philippines on October 23,2026.

When will I receive the Portal 1 email and should we go ahead and send the passport of the outland dependent to VAC/VFS even if we have not received Portal 1 yet?

Thank you

I am an outland US citizen applying under family class. I am currently visiting canda but am expecting my PPR in the next few days. I don't want to switch to an ecopr because I'm not settled I am just visitng and I don't want to have to hope I get p1 and p2 before I have to go back. As a US citizen, I don't need to send my passport when I get my PPR, just a photocopy. My question is: if I receive PPR while I am in Canada, can I send the photocopy (and accompanying documents) from Canada and then travel back to the US to await my COPR? Will sending the documents from Canada look suspiciois/get me flagged/get things delayed?

I have been employed under NOC 70020 for over two years. I understand that I am eligible for 40 additional points. Is there any way to earn 70 points with a job offer? Can my current employer help me qualify for these additional points? I would have an accompanying spouse. Would this affect my score?

If so, would I need to work for the employer for a specific period to qualify for these points.

If not, would I be eligible for 70 points if I found another job under the same NOC?