Can I leave Canada without my PR card in hand?

[mamoudi]

I’m an investor applicant. My latest submission included medical exams, police certificates, and right for PR fee. Next, I will be asked to make my investment. Then, the visa will be issued. At the recent pace, I expect to land in Toronto next June 2014.
Since I can’t close all remaining business obligations by that time, I plan to travel with my family and have them settle and complete all required submissions for PR cards. And then travel back before receiving my PR card. I figure once my family receives it, they can mail it to me.
However, I was told that if I exit Canada without the PR card in my hand, I will not be able to get back in because airport officers mark the card before boarding the airplane. Is this true?

 

[scylla]

No - that's not true. You can certainly leave Canada before you receive your PR card. Many (many many) people do this and there are no issues.

 

[singhabhishek251]

I think the best option is to contact some airport officer and enquire about the same as they may mark before leaving the airport and sometime they may not. If they can assure you that this is not the issue for your business immigration, then it would be good.

 

[steaky]

y don't u search on cic website fo the answer

Where in the website did you find the answer?

 

[Optymystyc]

No - that's not true. You can certainly leave Canada before you receive your PR card. Many (many many) people do this and there are no issues.

I concur, i know someone who traveled before his PR card arrived and he had someone bring it to him wherever he was. He had no issues at the airport coming back.

 

[IBMER]

Let me tell you 2 instances:
1. A friend of mine landed as a PR (that's the formal landing process), gave an address of his relative as his residential address in Canada and returned to the country he had come to Canada from. The friend of him, after receiving the PR card had it delivered to him - I'm not sure of the mode of delivery, though.
2. I've never had an occasion when an authority noted something on my PR card when I left Canada. So it's reasonable to assume that your leaving Canada cannot be tracked based on your PR card unless it's being asked for a validation. But someone gotta tell me if that had happened to them and if yes under what circumstances.
So, I derive that it's safe to leave Canada without your PR card. However, returning to Canada as a PR is another topic, just so you know.

 

[Optymystyc]

Let me tell you 2 instances:
1. A friend of mine landed as a PR (that's the formal landing process), gave an address of his relative as his residential address in Canada and returned to the country he had come to Canada from. The friend of him, after receiving the PR card have it delivered to him - I'm not sure of the mode of delivery, though.

However, returning to Canada as a PR is another topic, just so you know.

I concur again.

 

[skidmarkz]

Let me tell you 2 instances:
1. A friend of mine landed as a PR (that's the formal landing process), gave an address of his relative as his residential address in Canada and returned to the country he had come to Canada from. The friend of him, after receiving the PR card had it delivered to him - I'm not sure of the mode of delivery, though.
2. I've never had an occasion when an authority noted something on my PR card when I left Canada. So it's reasonable to assume that your leaving Canada cannot be tracked based on your PR card unless it's being asked for a validation. But someone gotta tell me if that had happened to them and if yes under what circumstances.
So, I derive that it's safe to leave Canada without your PR card. However, returning to Canada as a PR is another topic, just so you know.

Hi Ibmer, do you know how long it takes to get the PR card after landing?

Thanks

 

[scylla]

Hi Ibmer, do you know how long it takes to get the PR card after landing?

Thanks

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm-card.asp