📌 IRCC Rule on Timely Submission (Maintained Status)🔹 For electronic (online) applications:Your application must be submitted before midnight UTC on the date your status expires.It does not follow your local time zone—it follows Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) globally.If IRCC receives your application even one minute after midnight UTC, you will not benefit from maintained status.🔹 For paper applications:The date of receipt is the date it is physically stamped at the Case Processing Centre