emanuel2000 said:
Hello,
My PR is going to expire on june 2014 and right now I am outside Canada and I have been in Canada for only 13 months so I am thinking on renounce to my PR and apply for a normal visitor visa because my family is leaving in Canada and I would like to go and visit them at least one time each year so I will like to know what are the chances that I will get a normal visitor visa after I renunce my PR and I will also want to know what I need to do to renounce my PR?
Thank you for your help and time.
All depends on if you want to live in Canada in the near future or not....if all you need to do is visit then sure relinquish PR. The most direct method to relinquish PR in keeping with CIC Operational Bulletins is for you to:
1. Fill out a PRTD application detailing your 'In Canada' days in the 5 years prior to the application which will show you breach the RO.
2. Include in the application a letter confirming that you acknowledge breaching the RO, have no H&C grounds, want to relinquish PR Status and waive all appeal rights.
3. Include in the letter your PR Card and any Provincial Health Card.
4. Include a visitors visa application with all supporting documents.
Visa post will respond with a letter denying the PRTD and may or may not include an appeal form anyway. After 60 days of you receiving the form and not appealing CIC load up their database with your PR Cancelled...you will now be a foreign national. Depending on your ties to the country you are in you may or may not get a visitors visa.
If you want guaranteed entry into Canada then don't relinquish PR but either enter via a land border with the US (If you have a US Visa and CBP admit you) or if visitor visa exempt then fly in and deal with CBSA at the POE. In the former scenario you can use your COPR if the PR Card is expired subject to using non commercial transportation. Even if you get reported you will still be let in...only you by not appealing or the courts if you appeal can cancel your PR status. Since Canada has due process it will be a while possibly up 2 years before your PR loss hearing and decision. All these time you are eligible for one year PR Cards...in the end you will lose PR but until then it beats the visitor route eh...expect a rough time at each entry though!!