Sending PR Card by Courier

[Jerry1410]

Dear All

I want to ask if anybody has experience of sending the PR Card by Courier and receiving it abroad.

My PR Card has come and is with my friend in Canada. I am thinking of getting it through courier. How safe is it? Has anybody got experience in sending it and receiving it this way.

What can happen if it is lost in transit. In such an event can a person apply for PRTD?

Thank you for your replies.

 

[Bs65]

No experience but people do this all the time either mail or courier. If you use one of the recognised international companies should be completely secure and trackable although of course nobody can really guarantee anything 100 percent when going country to country if any issues at final destination but more secure than mail. Plus as you can read there is no legal restriction on sending outside Canada just immigration of course will not do so.

In unlikely event gets lost just apply for a PRTD for travel and get a replacement card when you arrive.

 

[nick360]

My PR Card is in Canada and I am elsewhere. I have genuinely looked into get a PRTD but the process is so cumbersome, firstly the visa office is in another country and they refuse to inform me how long the process takes. I would need to give up my passport for an extended period of time and I travel for work a lot so this is fairly impossible. The Canadian immigration officials in Canada when I received my COPR suggested getting a PRTD was very simple (it is anything but).

I am going to get my PR Card sent to me and was wondering if anyone recommends doing anything so that the 'chip' doesn't get read? I see a lot of theories on the internet that the new cards have a chip that will stop it at the border? Are these conspiracy theories or is there a way to ensure the card arrives without detection?

 

[steaky]

Why not have a friend deliver by hand to you?

 

[Malik84]

No experience but people do this all the time either mail or courier. If you use one of the recognised international companies should be completely secure and trackable although of course nobody can really guarantee anything 100 percent when going country to country if any issues at final destination but more secure than mail. Plus as you can read there is no legal restriction on sending outside Canada just immigration of course will not do so.

In unlikely event gets lost just apply for a PRTD for travel and get a replacement card when you arrive.

Hello,
Would like to confirm whats hzppen when u comeback to canada and cross thr border with pr card sent via international courier?.
are Customs flexible with this practice??

Thanks

 

[spousalsponsee]

Hello,
Would like to confirm whats hzppen when u comeback to canada and cross thr border with pr card sent via international courier?.
are Customs flexible with this practice??

Thanks

... There's no 'procedure' to be flexible with; you'd be a PR crossing the border with a PR card. Happens literally thousands of times every day.

 

[Malik84]

... There's no 'procedure' to be flexible with; you'd be a PR crossing the border with a PR card. Happens literally thousands of times every day.

it means that customs will not ask about how i have received my pr card outside canada...in my case ill land in toronto in april to confirm my pr status..leave and back on june 2017 (time to receive Pr card by courier in my home country).

Hope that will be ok when land canada!!!

can you please advise regarding my case

Thanks

 

[rish888]

Immigration doesn't care that you had your PR card mailed to you. They are on the look out for many things, but a person who got his card mailed through UPS is not one of them.

 

[Bs65]

Immigration doesn't care that you had your PR card mailed to you. They are on the look out for many things, but a person who got his card mailed through UPS is not one of them.

An interesting concept though that anyone could ever think that CBSA and immigration are scanning mail/courier items for PR cards being sent out of the country and then waiting at the border for the PR card holder to come into the country with their mailed card to arrest them. Probably yet another rumour spread around much like people keep saying is it legal to even mail a card outside the country, well for sure it is not illegal.

 

[Malik84]

An interesting concept though that anyone could ever think that CBSA and immigration are scanning mail/courier items for PR cards being sent out of the country and then waiting at the border for the PR card holder to come into the country with their mailed card to arrest them. Probably yet another rumour spread around much like people keep saying is it legal to even mail a card outside the country, well for sure it is not illegal.

I'm bit confused ..why only ups?!! i can receive it from DHL.
Now , you are seing its not legal to do that!?? ..there are no mention on official website..however , im just asking if someone has experience any problems with immigration officers.
Thanks

 

[rish888]

I'm bit confused ..why only ups?!! i can receive it from DHL.
Now , you are seing its not legal to do that!?? ..there are no mention on official website..however , im just asking if someone has experience any problems with immigration officers.
Thanks

@Malik84 I was just making a point.

Feel free to use whatever courier service you want, it doesn't matter!

 

[spousalsponsee]

Good grief. Please, understand. It doesn't matter how you get your PR card. You arrive in Canada as a PR with a PR card, you have a right of entry. You can get your PR card through Canada post sending it to you, a friend sending it by courier, a carrier pigeon dropping it I to your hair, or any other method you wish.

 

[rish888]

I'm bit confused ..why only ups?!! i can receive it from DHL.
Now , you are seing its not legal to do that!?? ..there are no mention on official website..however , im just asking if someone has experience any problems with immigration officers.
Thanks

It is not illegal to mail the card.

As a PR, under Canadian law you are no longer considered a foreign national. Once you are determined to be a PR (which is why you have the PR card) the Immigration officer is required to let you into Canada without further delay.

Long story short, you're not gonna have a problem. Immigration officers have far more important things to do than ask you if you mailed the PR card or not. (Which any way is none of their business since it isn't illegal.)

 

[rish888]

Good grief. Please, understand. It doesn't matter how you get your PR card. You arrive in Canada as a PR with a PR card, you have a right of entry. You can get your PR card through Canada post sending it to you, a friend sending it by courier, a carrier pigeon dropping it I to your hair, or any other method you wish.

Exactly.

 

[rish888]

An interesting concept though that anyone could ever think that CBSA and immigration are scanning mail/courier items for PR cards being sent out of the country and then waiting at the border for the PR card holder to come into the country with their mailed card to arrest them. Probably yet another rumour spread around much like people keep saying is it legal to even mail a card outside the country, well for sure it is not illegal.

I honestly don't know how people come up with this stuff. As if CBSA doesn't have enough to work to do that they would start scanning courier shipments for "contraband cards."

I can understand some people being anxious about their ID getting lost in their mail, but I seriously don't get why people thing they're gonna get thrown in jail.