Canadian Address for PR Card
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Forum Name: Preserving Permanent Residence Status
Forum Description: How long can a permanent resident remain outside of Canada? Commentaries on preserving permanent residence.
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Topic: Canadian Address for PR Card
Posted By: duaduaki
Subject: Canadian Address for PR Card
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2010 at 1:44am
| I intend to visit canada for a holiday and to apply for my PR card. From my understanding, the PR card won't be ready in a matter of days, and I would have return home by then. Can I entrust a canadian lawyer to collect the card on my behalf? That is to say I use the lawyer's address for my card to be sent to. Any reliable one to recommend? |
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Posted By: tanushree.tiku
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2010 at 2:19am
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sorry intend to visit canada and apply for ur PR card? U wudnt need to apply for PR card. When u land, you can mention the new address to the IO but then i dont know, i havent landed yet but if the PR card needs to have an address on it, then they wud put the lawyers address on the PR card too...
When u applied for PR, u wud have mentioned the address...if someone is living at that address someone close u cud just ask that person to send it to u...
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Posted By: duaduaki
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2010 at 2:50am
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The thing is that I would like to land before the expiry of my visa, but I am not ready to move and stay in Canada at the moment. And I don't have any Canadian address for the PR card to be sent to. Does that mean to say that I could ask them to sent it outside of Canada? |
Posted By: tanushree.tiku
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2010 at 2:54am
| i am not sure whether they wud send it to an address outside canada....otherwise just contact a lawyer and give his address...wont be a problem...so many first time immigrants land and then they leave back to their country, even they do not have addresses......just give ur lawyers address and once ur lawyer has it, he/she can just send it to u...no big deal |
Posted By: blackpearl
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2010 at 12:08pm
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CIC will not mail PR card outside Canada. You can have the PR card mailed to your lawyer's address. Contact the lawyer first to make sure that they're willing to do it for you, and that you trust this lawyer.
If you do not have PR card, you need to apply for a travel document from abroad in order to enter Canada: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/travel.asp - www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/travel.asp |
Posted By: dpenabill
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2010 at 3:42pm
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Caution: See section 20(1) of IRPA, referred to the enforcement operation manual for POE examinations. It states:
(emphasis added) I know of no one who was questioned closely about this (the part I put in bold) upon approaching a POE to land as a PR, and I don't know the format for the CoPR when the PR was granted in a class other than a sponsored person (for sponsored persons, the CoPR specifically requires a Canadian residential address, usually the address of the sponsor, and that is one of the very few questions asked upon landing), so I do not know when or how this issue would arise in the landing interview. But I also know that there is a "non-genuine immigrant" category in the table for issuing an A41 "non-compliance allegation" report, referring to the obligation of a landing immigrant's obligation to "establish intent to establish residency." (see item 12 in the table of ENF 5 found at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/enf/enf05-eng.pdf If you have a lawyer, I'd talk to your lawyer about this. Just to be on the safe side. I presume you can explain the obvious, and what you plan to do is very commonly done, that is, people land, return to their home country to settle affairs, finish work obligations, and so on, then return to Canada to fully establish their life in Canada. Just that it is best to be fully aware of the vagaries of the process and be able to clearly explain your intentions. Misunderstandings are, perhaps, one of the more common problems people encounter in going through processes like this. ------------- Bureaucracy is what bureaucracy does, or When in doubt, follow the instructions. Otherwise, follow the instructions. BTW: Not an expert, not a Can. lawyer, never worked in immigration |
20. (1) Every foreign national, other than a foreign national referred to in section 19, who seeks to enter or remain in Canada must establish,