If your passport has been sent in for PR visa stamping and it's taking noticeably longer than expected, before flights you've already booked:
- Check your portal for a counterfoil/visa generation status. If the counterfoil has already been generated and is showing as available, your passport is likely to come back soon.
- If there's no such update yet, expect delays. At various points, processing has been reported to take much longer than the usual timeframe (members reported 6+ weeks in some periods, partly due to visa office resources being reallocated to other priority streams).
- Rebook or postpone your flights rather than risk missing your travel date if you don't yet see a status update indicating your visa/passport is ready — historical experience in the group showed waits of 5+ weeks were not unusual during high-demand periods.
Note: processing times for passport stamping fluctuate based on visa office workload and external factors, so always check your specific visa office's current published processing times before deciding.