Urgent Renwal of PR, Help

If you have no issues with being in compliance with the Residency Obligation, should be no problem, but they tend to take their time it appears.

If you have been outside Canada more than in Canada, that is, if you were cutting the Residency Obligation close (not sure what "close" is, though less than 900 days in five years is, perhaps close, since 912 days in five years is less than half, and less than half might raise questions, in most people's minds anyway, about whether you really have set up residing in Canada).

If you were cutting it real close, like less than 800 days, making an urgent application, it seems to me, might raise a red flag . . . after all, if someone that close to being in breach of the residency obligation goes abroad it is likely they will be in breach of the obligation in the not so distant future.

Personally I do not know much about the time line for urgent processing. Those who report in this forum tend to be those whose application ran into difficulty, mostly due to questions about the residency obligation.

But yes, if they have questions about whether or not you are in compliance with the Residency Obligation the application will get bogged down and take quite a long while . . . probably be a request for you to submit additional documents, and some time down the road an interview.

But if you have been in Canada for, say, over three years out of the past five, probably no problem, but I do not know how long it takes . . . it is not an overnight deal though that seems for sure.

As for what agents on the telephone will tell you: they are there to provide general information, not as case workers dealing with individual cases. Their answers seem vague to you because you want specifics about your case and they usually only relate general information. That's not what you want. Understood. But that's how the system is set up so far as I am aware.

hi melo  and timestr when was ur status showin on cic site .i applied for urgent .they received on 12 dec and of today that is 15 dec it is showing nothing ...how long they take to up date for urgent and do they inform you on fone too??plz plzte ll me

thanks melo  a lot also plz tell one more thing ..do they update status on line ??if they do .then after how many days they receive ur application? mine was received on 12dec but the status is coming as not traceable . what is that u plz tell wheathe it was same with you and what was the procedure the y go throtuh ...thanks ....sunil kumar

thanks dpenabill,

dpenabill wrote: I think you miss the point about applying for a new PR card on an urgent basis if you just barely make the cutoff of 730 days: you are signaling an intention to leave Canada. If you have only 745 days in Canada in the previous five years, you will be in breach of the Residency Obligation within just over two weeks. So, OK, you have a margin of 30 days . . . but, again, within just barely a month of being gone you are in breach of the residency obligation.

If romiro accumulated the 730 days within the last 2 years, he/she would be able to leave for almost another three years and still meet residency obligations.

If you put all the focus on the exact 730 days, the problem with cutting close is the fact, that CIC needs to take a close look at your calculations. Some people just do not know how to calculate days between two dates and even simple counting on a calendar is not that easy.

No offenser romiro, but your argument actually supports that CIC looks in detail on the calculations if close to 730 days, and has to make sure, that you added up the days correctly. Because of recent frauds, I think they need time for it. Also because a lot of their forces are busy with the investigations around the citizenship fraud cases.