Historical: this thread is from the 2021–22 IRCC backlog era; the specific waits described are not representative of current processing.An applicant whose study-visa application had crossed 14 weeks without a passport request (PPR) asked what to do. The thread offered two practical checks and one expectation-setter:
- Check which lodgement dates IRCC is currently processing. The most actionable advice: IRCC publishes information on which application dates are being worked through, so compare your file's lodgement date against that. During the backlog, files were being processed roughly in date order — though not strictly (the poster noted IRCC showed November 2021 while some December files had already received PPR).
- Webforms exist, but temper expectations. Raising a webform was the obvious escalation, but a member who'd been through it warned they're of limited use — responses themselves take weeks. It's worth filing one, but it isn't a fast lever.
- Some out-of-order processing is normal. Seeing later files get PPR before yours doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong with your application — members observed plenty of date-order anomalies.