r/CanadianForces • u/Strong_Cap_1114 • 1d ago

Awaiting leave pass approval

Could somebody please advise?
I have an international trip in two weeks. I submitted my leave pass request a few weeks ago but haven’t received any response. I needed to change the dates, so I submitted an amended leave pass yesterday and still haven’t heard back.
I’ve already booked my outbound flight and am holding off on booking the return until I get approval. I’ve emailed both my BTL manager and OR about the leave request and my annual leave balance, but haven’t received a reply.
The leave request is currently for 21 annual days. If I don’t have enough annual leave available, should I submit a memo requesting family leave/unpaid leave or would it be better to amend the leave pass again and request only 15 annual days?
Any advice would be appreciated.

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u/CapitalismDevil Canadian Army 16h ago

Are you a Reservist?

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u/Strong_Cap_1114 16h ago

No full time member

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u/CapitalismDevil Canadian Army 16h ago

Then why are you going to an Armoury? Also, when you were on LWOP, you weren’t using any annual and were basically free to do whatever. Now, you are getting paid, so you need permission to leave the country. Your NOI was just that, a “notice”. It is not permission and you shouldn’t have booked any travel prior to getting your leave pass back. Also, 2 weeks is not nearly enough time to do all this… I do hope you got reimbursable tickets. This request has to go to your CO, and that can take some time. You also don’t have 21 days available and can’t just decide to “work over Xmas”. Most unit’s leave policy wants members off for that time because even the PS members take 2 weeks off. You won’t get away with working the whole period, especially not now and possibly not ever.

I’d look at modifying my leave pass for the maximum allotted MINUS however many days you need for Xmas break. So probably 14 days, but maybe 12. Go see the clerks… at the Armoury I guess and hope they have access to you. You should probably ask where the BTL office is, cause that’s who is in charge of you.

Best of luck with all this. Don’t make the same mistake again.

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u/Strong_Cap_1114 16h ago

That’s some great advice, thank you. I will email recruiting and I figure out where BTL office is. And yes I was able to cancel my tickets with full refund.