Hello forum. I am going to submit my PR card renewal application soon (my PR card is valid until July, 2018) and I currently have 890 days of physical in Canada. I have couple questions:
1- I spent two intermittent years working overseas and I did some traveling to the States and Europe. Should I go ahead and submit my passport coloured copies with the stamps? Even though it is not mentioned in the checklist, but due to my somewhat extensive travel history, I am thinking of just going ahead and submitting my passport coloured copies along with exit/entry records.
Follow the instructions. Submit what is requested.
It is crucial to be accurate and complete in reporting travel dates. If you do that, odds are good IRCC will readily verify most of that information and that will improve your odds of routine processing.
There is little or no indication that it helps to send any materials which are not requested.
Bureaucratic processing tends to work best when applicants
colour inside the lines, so to say.
2. Is me and my wife being apart a viable reason for urgent processing? I have a flight ticket booked on January 21st but I have no family emergency nor employment. I just want to see my wife
Thanks
A request for urgent processing at this juncture is more likely to trigger non-routine processing, perhaps Secondary Review, than it is to be granted. Especially since you can obviously travel abroad and return to Canada using your currently valid PR card until July of next year.
If it appears you plan to be abroad from January until past the expiration date of your current PRC, in July 2018, that is likely to invite questions and elevated scrutiny, especially in conjunction with the extent of time it appears you have been abroad, especially in conjunction with circumstances otherwise inconsistent with being fully settled and living permanently in Canada (such as immediate family living abroad for example).
It appears you have a comfortable margin over the minimum obligation, but not by a whole lot. Other factors and circumstances can have a significant influence in how IRCC perceives you and processes your PRC application.
If you have continued ties abroad and a pattern of absences that is inconsistent with permanently settling in Canada, that would likely increase the risk of arousing some concerns if not overt suspicions. This should be obvious.
The purpose of being granted PR status is so you can settle and live in Canada permanently, so if your situation appears to be otherwise, obviously that tends to invite concern and suspicion. (Way too many PRs whose lives tend to be centralized abroad fail to grasp that there are significant risks in relying on just meeting the minimum PR Residency Obligation . . . it is the bare minimum, one intended to accommodate unusual circumstances,
NOT intended to facilitate keeping status in Canada while primarily living or working abroad.)
