An applicant waiting almost 7 weeks for a PRTD from India asked what's normal. The thread's data points and tactics:
- Standard processing can run many weeks; urgent processing can be days. One member's urgent application was approved in 3 days (plus ~15 more days to get the passport back); others mentioned 3-4 weeks as unremarkable. The 7-week wait with no urgency case attached was slow but not unheard of.
- Apply as urgent with concrete evidence. The member who got 3-day approval applied under the urgent stream, citing that their employer would not extend their leave, and submitted their booked return ticket. Documented urgency — tickets plus an employment reason — appears to be what moves PRTD applications quickly.
- Budget time for passport return. Approval is not the end: allow roughly two more weeks for the passport (with the counterfoil/visa) to physically come back through the process.
- Related eCOPR waits are similarly variable. A tangent in the thread: after submitting status confirmation and photo, one member got eCOPR in 3 days (again with tickets submitted), while others waited 3-4 weeks — treat 2-3 weeks of silence as normal before escalating.
If your travel is genuinely time-bound, the thread's clear lesson is to make the urgency documented and explicit rather than filing a standard application and hoping.