TC might just be a paperwork exercise but good luck getting it done in under three months...
you’d need a TC medical which on initial issue has to be handwritten by one of three overworked elves that live on the dark side of the moon, and then only if they can get the special ink delivered. After it is mailed to you (comes hand delivered by a two-legged overweight tortoise) only then can you apply for any transfer exams you may need...
These are held in special licensing locations...on last check (April) the Vancouver office exam section was temporarily closed, Abbotsford was down for 9-11 months as examiner was on maternity leave and the waiting time just to sit an exam in Richmond was nearly two months. Kelowna are great and only had a three week wait...after waiting four months for the medical to arrive.
However, on reaching the successful achievement of the transfer exam and now having the holy gossamer of a TC medical booklet, you may start the validation of your foreign license. Your exam, copy of medical, logbook and foreign licenses are submitted to the large collapsed star (now black hole) that is the TC licensing division.
There is, at this point, a need to invest in several large packages of unicorn dust which you must liberally sprinkle on every email/letter/telephone/carrier pigeon with which you attempt to contact TC to find out what has happened to the documents that are awaiting the privilege of obtaining a TC stamp.
They contact the FAA, the FAA agree you have what you say you have and then....TC engage in a month long seance to find out if you have a healthy presence in the afterlife.
The good side is that as long as you have a type rating on another license and can show recent hours in the logbook on type, you can get that type transferred, it only costs a few pennies per type/rating.
bitterly yours....