Any option to resurrect a renounced PR?

[Ranvir Moore]

In 2013, I sponsored my parents to come to Canada, and they landed with full intentions to settle permanently when they moved in 2015. During that time, my father became a certified arbitrator after completing a course and passing the necessary exams, and he was considering taking the NCA exams to pursue a legal career.





Unfortunately, the 2015 visit was cut short because my maternal grandmother fell ill, prompting both of my parents to return home. My grandmother later passed away in 2016, and my grandfather followed in 2020. My mother, not wanting to be far from them during their final years, chose to remain nearby.





Since they did not fulfill the residency requirements and intended to visit me, an attorney advised that we renounce their PR status and obtain a multiple-entry visa instead. The lawyer’s strategy depended on the possibility of enrolling them in the parent lottery, and indeed, they did visit Canada last year. The lottery opportunity never materialized.

Question:
Is there any option to somehow reinstate their former PR status now? As far as I understand, there isn’t a clear pathway to do so. I’d appreciate any suggestions or insights on this matter.

 

[scylla]

In 2013, I sponsored my parents to come to Canada, and they landed with full intentions to settle permanently when they moved in 2015. During that time, my father became a certified arbitrator after completing a course and passing the necessary exams, and he was considering taking the NCA exams to pursue a legal career.





Unfortunately, the 2015 visit was cut short because my maternal grandmother fell ill, prompting both of my parents to return home. My grandmother later passed away in 2016, and my grandfather followed in 2020. My mother, not wanting to be far from them during their final years, chose to remain nearby.





Since they did not fulfill the residency requirements and intended to visit me, an attorney advised that we renounce their PR status and obtain a multiple-entry visa instead. The lawyer’s strategy depended on the possibility of enrolling them in the parent lottery, and indeed, they did visit Canada last year. The lottery opportunity never materialized.

Question:
Is there any option to somehow reinstate their former PR status now? As far as I understand, there isn’t a clear pathway to do so. I’d appreciate any suggestions or insights on this matter.

No. No option to reinstate. Since they renounced their PR is gone.

The lottery did not reopen this year but might at some point in the future. You will need to wait for that to happen and then wait to be selected.

 

[canuck78]

You and your parents should also be planning for a life if they can’t come to Canada. There is huge demand for PGP with lower quotas so many parents will not be able to move to Canada. When PGP opens again I assume there may be changes to the program to prioritize applicants in some way but nobody can predict what PGP will look like going forward or when it will reopen. Also may depend on the economy and pressure from baby boomers on things like Healthcare.

 

[Ranvir Moore]

Thanks sclla and canuck78 for your feedback.
Yes. There is a lot of uncertainity around the PGP program.
I just worry about them. As I might not be able to leave my job and young family in Canada to look after them in their later years.

 

[canuck78]

Thanks sclla and canuck78 for your feedback.
Yes. There is a lot of uncertainity around the PGP program.
I just worry about them. As I might not be able to leave my job and young family in Canada to look after them in their later years.

Which is why you must look at other options like hiring care for them in their home and more and there are more retirement/nursing homes options will become available for situations exactly like yours. Hiring care will be more affordable than coming to Canada. For example if your parent ended up in longterm care in Canada during the first 20 years you’d be responsible for paying the around $2500/month bed fee. Renting equipment and buying supplies to care for someone at home also quite expensive.

 

[YVR123]

Thanks sclla and canuck78 for your feedback.
Yes. There is a lot of uncertainity around the PGP program.
I just worry about them. As I might not be able to leave my job and young family in Canada to look after them in their later years.

Well, when they choose to stay back home in 2015, they made a choice to not able to come to Canada as PR with the previous PGP sponsorship.

Now, it's way more difficult to sponsor parents (it wasn't even easy back then).

So they cannot expect you to drop everything in Canada to return to home country to care for them.
You can arrange care helpers for them in home country and the cost will be most likely less than those in Canada.