Working Outside Canada

Thank you so much canvis and dpenabill for your deeply thought views.I appreciate that and I will definitely consider those.Further my spouse n children who are already  in the process of applying their citizenship application and if God willing after sometime they get their citizenship, then considering my situation how they are going to help me?Thanks once again.

One important issue may be proof of identity.

So long as your documents establish your identity, and *you* are a PR, they will issue you a travel document if you need one (which you will need, if you do not have the PR card, in order to board a flight destined for Canada). Likewise, at the POE, regardless of what documents you have, if you can positively establish your identity, as a PR you are entitled to entry.

If you are carrying the PR card, identity could still be an issue if something suggests to them that the person presenting the PR card is not the person named on it. I am not sure what would trigger that sort of inquiry, but it should not be too troublesome if it happens, you simply explain your circumstances and they do some cross-checking in databases until they are satisfied of your identity . . . can happen pretty quickly. That process probably takes place more often than people realize, the officer taking the time to ask some additional questions while the computer is generating this and that information for the officer to compare and affirm your identity. No big deal. Even the real frauds seem to slide past too easily.

Actually "identity" is one of the most important issues CBSA and CIC officers are trained to sniff out, one of the most diligently and frequently scrutinized issues -- usually easily, quickly resolved with a brief comparison of identity documents, appearance, certain identifying characteristics (brown eyes in travel document, brown eyes in computer version on their monitor, and the guy standing there has brown eyes . . . and so on) and the circumstances. But if there is any reason to doubt identity or the "status" of the person subject of the query (that is, a question as to whether they are the individual who is indeed a PR), that can result in a fairly intrusive encounter which can last for an indeterminate period of time . . . but only until they establish identity or *determine* a fraudulent identity.

Identity issues can be tricky. And surprising. My worst border experience was at a land POE going into the States. My passport was expired but an expired American passport is still prima facie evidence of identity and citizenship (and this was long before passports became required, when only proper ID and a birth certificate were sufficient). I probably triggered alarms in some other way (it was not long after 9/11, and there was a confluence of circumstances that probably seemed incongruous to them . . . though it was definitely a way over the top over-reaction) but I ended up being detained and having this brute, armed to the hilt, screaming at the top of his lungs not six inches from my face. They claimed I was not "who" I was purporting to be. That is, they doubted my "identity." Not much I could do but shrug and let it play out, as calmly as I could possibly remain. In the end they said "sorry" and added that I should "understand" (given the events on 9/11), I said no, I did not, but I was anxious to be on my way.

Thanks a lot canvis for your reply.I hope you r right but travelling with a ppt showing different nationality than the PR card will not be objectionable by the immigration authorities as well as the airline agencies? Further UAE and other Gulf countries do require a visit visa for Canada.

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