again thanks for the detailed reply
of all the forums i checked, i could not find a case where a RO was issued at the border.unless their case was already flagged due to other felonies
i know of friends who have gone in and out of canada with expired PR card multiple times (PR expiry was short) and were given only a warning or request to renew right away
the lawyers i communicated with are very prominent lawyers. i contact around 50 plus. some were kind enough to give a detailed answer free of charge
some even advertised this procedure on their website
https://www.matkowsky.ca/single-post/2018/06/10/What-to-do-if-my-PR-Card-expired
"i know of friends who have gone in and out of canada with expired PR card multiple times (PR expiry was short) and were given only a warning or request to renew right away"
REMINDER: the validity of a PR card is NOT relevant when calculating compliance with the PR Residency Obligation.
If the PR card has expired that means they have been a PR for more than five years. What matters for purposes of the PR Residency Obligation, then, is how many days they have been IN Canada during the previous five years of the day they arrive at the PoE.
As I have discussed in several topics, border officials are known to exercise their discretion so as to allow returning PRs a significant amount of flexibility.
That said, make NO mistake, in both this forum and in officially published decisions in actual cases, there are scores of examples of PRs in breach of the RO, including more than a few who had valid PR cards, and many who were arriving via a land crossing from the U.S., who upon arrival at a PoE were issued the 44(1) Report for Inadmissibility due to a breach of the RO AND issued a Departure Order, at the PoE. I doubt the lawyers you have spoken with say anything to the contrary of this. Again, many of these cases are documented in the officially published IAD decisions. There is no doubt about their existence.
"i could not find a case where a RO was issued at the border.unless their case was already flagged due to other felonies"
Again, to be clear, there are many such cases reported in the officially published decisions.
I suspect you use the term "felonies" to mean something other than serious criminal offences, but I do not know what meaning you do use this term. RO compliance is not related to criminal allegations or criminal cases. Serious criminality is an entirely separate ground for PR inadmissibility.
But there are scores of cases where a Departure Order (sometimes referred to as a Removal Order) was issued at the border described in the officially published IAD decisions. If you found none either you are not really looking or your search terms are off the mark.
In the meantime, while you were posting this, I just happened to be reading a Federal Court decision in which an individual had been approved for citizenship, scheduled for the oath, actually issued (but not delivered) a citizenship certificate and then upon his arrival at the PoE from abroad (no known "felonies" involved) for the purpose attending the scheduled oath ceremony, was examined at the PoE regarding his compliance with the PR Residency Obligation and issued a 44(1) Report for Inadmissibility . . . which led to an appeal which eventually went his way, many years later, so he was able to keep PR status. This all happened some time ago, but he was not allowed to take the oath of citizenship and his appeal of that has only just recently been heard and decided, against him. Which I just happened to be reading this afternoon. See Almuhaidib v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2019 CF 1543 (CanLII),
http://canlii.ca/t/j45z8
I do not mention this case because it is particularly relevant here (it is a citizenship case after all) but because it just happens to be a case illustrating precisely the procedure I described above, coming across an example of a PR examined at the PoE and issued the 44(1) Report and Departure Order. Much as I have described how the process typically works.
More to the point, there is NO shortage of cases similar to Haghi v Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2019 CanLII 106894 (CA IRB), see
http://canlii.ca/t/j3bbh
Again, no hint of any "felonies," but after an absence of more than two years Mahmoud Haghi and upon his return to Canada he . . . "
was interviewed at the port of entry where an officer determined that [he] was in contravention of the [RO and a] departure order was issued . . . " Mahmoud Haghi was fortunate, however, in that given he had two children living in Canada the IAD concluded H&C reasons were sufficient to allow him to keep PR status despite the valid-in-law determination he had breached the RO.
Ehsanul Haque was not so fortunate. See
http://canlii.ca/t/j39z5 Likewise examined upon arrival at a PoE and "
examined by an immigration officer and found to be non-compliant with his residency requirements" he was thus Reported and issued a Departure Order; he appealed, and the IAD concluded he did not present sufficient H&C reasons to warrant special relief.
There is nothing particularly remarkable or unusual about these cases. These are just samples. Among many samples. They are very much akin to many, many, more. The process is no mystery. PR in breach of RO is examined upon arrival at PoE, Reported and issued a Departure Order. PR appeals. IAD hears and decides the appeal. Almost all these cases are "valid in law" (meaning the PR did indeed breach the RO), but in some the IAD finds sufficient H&C reasons to "
warrant special relief." In many, probably most (I have not crunched the numbers but the outcomes easily appear to lean against relief), the decision goes the other way and PR status is lost.
There are so many OFFICIALLY reported such cases that it is not likely many, if any lawyers, say this is not how it works. If that is what you think they have said, my guess is you misunderstood them.
In any event, if you have in fact researched the reliable sources or forums, you must have seen some of these cases, if not scores of them.
That said, there are many, many more cases where the decision finding a PR "to be inadmissible for failing to comply with the residency obligation" was made outside Canada, at a Visa Office, in response to an application for a PR Travel Document. Nonetheless, the nature of inquiry is largely the same, the criteria the same, so there are very little substantive difference one sees in the official decisions (except the weight of the presumption against valid PR status for PRs who do not possess a valid PR card when abroad, but that tends to be a small factor compared to the extent of the breach and such).