Gray C

2 out of 5 years

Butch Cassidy

LOL we've covered that one.
Already admitted I'm wearing my stoopid head

iaink

Good idea to lie on your PR card application form. Spend the rest of your time looking over your shoulder (even if you eventually become a citizen) or waiting for the knock on the door when they come to boot your sorry arse out of the country.

IIRC you still meet the requirement, so just go with the truth. As it is you dont need PR card or travel document to return as you have a visa waiver passport, so come back, explain all and trust the system. If you did screw up, abandoned the country and legitimately lost your status, thats too bad, the rest of us take this shit seriously after the effort it took to get PR status in the first place.

PR is 2 out of 5, Citizen is 3 out of 4, probably the sourse of confusion? No doubt AM will show up and correct us that technically is whatever number of days

PR cards for newly lander PRs are mailed, Cards for existing PRs usually have to be collected in person.

AnyaT

HB received his PR card by mail, so unless CIC has changed its policy in the last 1.5 years, it is not necessary to go in person to pick them up.

Butch Cassidy

Agreed 110% there Iain!! (especially with respect to the source of confusion)

tony.l

who is HB and has anyone else that had a IMM 1000 and needed to update it to the new PR card had theres mailed out to them rather than having to go in and collect it in person.

Island_Girl

both my sister and I have lived here since 1967 and had the old paper IMM1000 card signed by our father as we were small children. We both just this year finally applied for our new PR card ...never had one before and they were mailed out to us.

Island Girl

AnyaT

HB = my husband. We were living in Toronto when he received his permanent residence-ship, so it wasn't like your case where you are re-applying from outside.

Sorry, can't answer questions about specific forms as I no longer remember anything about them.

iaink

You have lived here since coming as a kid in 1967 and never bothered with Citizenship?

Butch Cassidy

You sitting down?
I met a woman who has lived here for 25 years. Born in UK, Italian Parents. Always carried an Italian Passport, has lost the original passport (with her entry visa in), let the last passport run out, she never applied for citizenship, she never applied for a PR card. She doesnt have her birth certificate.
Basically she is restricted to staying in Canada!!!!

westchilt

We were existing PR's and we had to go and pick them up. From what I can remember we were given a date in which to go and collect them.

Gray C

If we land and then return to the UK for a period of time does the PR card get sent to our UK address, or do we have to nominate a Canadian address for it to be sent to, i.e. my wife's sister's address in Ontario?

Alberta_Rose

I believe ..... and I'm sure there are a dozen ppl to correct me if I'm wrong ..... that they will only post to a Canadian address.

As to whether existing PR's have to pick them up personally .... that seems to be a matter of differing experience, doesn't it. They posted to us, as new landed immigrants last fall ..... that was our experience.

iaink

They wont send a PR card overseas...permanent residents are assumed to want to live permanently in Canada see!

Gray C

We want to move to Canada permanently, but unfortunately it seems likely that we will have to return to the UK for a year or so after landing to complete our daughter's Growth Hormone therapy. As you know already from previous correspondence the cost of the GH drugs in Canada is very expensive, so we do not have much option but to stay here for a while longer.

Is it wise to use my sister in law's address for the PR card, or is this a no no?