PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
Jan 20th 2018, 3:40 pm
#31
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Re: PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
But presumably a British tourist could book a bus ticket from New York to Toronto without needing any document other than a valid passport. As I understand, eTA is only for air carriers and I'm guessing it's designed to prevent people with false documents from visa-free countries from boarding a flight to Canada in the first place.
Once you get to the land border and have a valid passport and can prove your PR somehow then it wouldn't matter if you didn't have a PRTD and came by bus because the PRTD was mainly for the bus company's benefit and not the CBSA/CIC?
Once you get to the land border and have a valid passport and can prove your PR somehow then it wouldn't matter if you didn't have a PRTD and came by bus because the PRTD was mainly for the bus company's benefit and not the CBSA/CIC?
No matter how many times I say it on threads and I will spell it out clearly
A PR OF CANADA NEEDS A VALID PR CARD TO TRAVEL TO CANADA ON ANY COMMERCIAL CARRIER
Im not interested in if ands or buts.
Jan 20th 2018, 4:06 pm
#32
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Re: PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
Visitors and temporary residents don't need an eTA for the land border by any mode of transport. PRs need a PRC if travelling on commercial transport via the land border but it's not mandatory via non commercial transport.
Jan 20th 2018, 5:27 pm
#33
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Re: PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
Visitors are fine. Permanent Residents need a valid PR card for travel by a commercial carrier. What and how the driver does with passengers only becomes my concern at the POE and not before.
No matter how many times I say it on threads and I will spell it out clearly
A PR OF CANADA NEEDS A VALID PR CARD TO TRAVEL TO CANADA ON ANY COMMERCIAL CARRIER
Im not interested in if ands or buts.
No matter how many times I say it on threads and I will spell it out clearly
A PR OF CANADA NEEDS A VALID PR CARD TO TRAVEL TO CANADA ON ANY COMMERCIAL CARRIER
Im not interested in if ands or buts.
In the OP's case what they are trying to do is perfectly normal and legal however the rules state that they need an additional piece of paper to get back into the country by a commercial carrier only that piece of paper cannot be requested or secured before they leave Canada, thus creating additional undue risk and stress and only if you come back over the US border by a non-commercial carrier then the piece of paper doesn't matter anyway.
I mean really, there has to be a more simple way of doing this for both sides concerned and with processes this convoluted, you can't really blame people for trying to find creative ways around them.
Jan 20th 2018, 5:53 pm
#34
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Re: PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
I totally understand what you're saying however IMHO Canada has made this unnecessarily complicated.
In the OP's case what they are trying to do is perfectly normal and legal however the rules state that they need an additional piece of paper to get back into the country by a commercial carrier only that piece of paper cannot be requested or secured before they leave Canada, thus creating additional undue risk and stress and only if you come back over the US border by a non-commercial carrier then the piece of paper doesn't matter anyway.
I mean really, there has to be a more simple way of doing this for both sides concerned and with processes this convoluted, you can't really blame people for trying to find creative ways around them.
In the OP's case what they are trying to do is perfectly normal and legal however the rules state that they need an additional piece of paper to get back into the country by a commercial carrier only that piece of paper cannot be requested or secured before they leave Canada, thus creating additional undue risk and stress and only if you come back over the US border by a non-commercial carrier then the piece of paper doesn't matter anyway.
I mean really, there has to be a more simple way of doing this for both sides concerned and with processes this convoluted, you can't really blame people for trying to find creative ways around them.
Jan 25th 2018, 2:59 am
#35
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Re: PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
Would you believe it.
My new card turned up today. 2 weeks before we travel.
THERE IS A GOD!!
Thank you to everyone for there messages and advice.
My new card turned up today. 2 weeks before we travel.
THERE IS A GOD!!
Thank you to everyone for there messages and advice.
Jan 25th 2018, 3:19 am
#36
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Re: PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
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Jan 25th 2018, 11:52 am
#39
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Re: PR Card Renewal - but vacation is looming
Yes, I would actually.
My post Jan 13th.
Anyone interested in next week's lottery numbers? 
My post Jan 13th.
