Citizenship application and expiring PR

[msamiullah]

Hi Everyone,

I applied for citizenship in Jan and right now its in IP stage. My PR expires in Sep-18. I am not planning to travel in 2018. I am wondering if there will be any issue if I dnt apply for PR renewal and wait for citizenship application. Will I be ok with expired PR for lets say further six months ? or do I need to apply for renewal.

 

[Joshua1]

PR status and PR cards are 2 different things.

If you don't plan to travel, there's no need to renew your card. PR status is not renewable... you don't lose it when your card expires.

 

[sandyboy388]

PR status and PR cards are 2 different things.

If you don't plan to travel, there's no need to renew your card. PR status is no a renewable... you don't lose it when your card expires.

I had the same question and was concerned if it would impact anything else. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it would impact any renewals that requires a valid PR, ex - BC driver's license.

 

[sns204]

Wait for you citizenship if you dont have a travel plan. Applying PR card renewal will cause another review of you PR status which can cause delay on your citizenship application. Expired PR card won't be an issue to get citizenship.

What is your evidence that it will cause a delay in the citizenship application? I believe that statement is patently false. IRCC constantly tell people to renew their PR cards while waiting for the citizenship application process to play out.

 

[msamiullah]

Thanks alot guys for your responses, really appreciate that.

 

[sns204]

IRCC tells people to renew pr card for many reasons:
1. It's a new fee.
2. Expired/expiring PR card would more likely ask for urgent process
3. People outside canada with expired PR card is a pain for the consulate office .

I don't think that IRCC is concerned with up-selling in the way you describe.

PR renewal and citizenship department are not entirely work together or from same department. Most of the government office in fact hate different groups in their own department.

Applying PR renewal trigger following thing:
1. PR status
2. How obtained PR.
3. Entry exit check.
4. Income tax check.
5. Security check.
6. Residency check.

Citizenship also triggers all the items that already checked for PR renewal. If PR renewal people don't finish the PR status verification, citizenship department won't even start looking into PR status and your application before PR renewal people finish verifying the PR status.

Anyway, I didn't say it's obvious because no one in this forum can predict anything specific.

This reply is a bit all over the place and frankly doesn't make sense. Verification for PR card renewal is obviously some short form of a review since it's getting done so quickly. In fact, I'm under the impression that the PR card renewal process is happening at a central office, not at a local office as handles the citizenship applications. It's not like the citizenship processing agent is waiting for someone in the PR card renewal office to finish anything.

 

[itsmyid]

I don't think that IRCC is concerned with up-selling in the way you describe.


This reply is a bit all over the place and frankly doesn't make sense. Verification for PR card renewal is obviously some short form of a review since it's getting done so quickly. In fact, I'm under the impression that the PR card renewal process is happening at a central office, not at a local office as handles the citizenship applications. It's not like the citizenship processing agent is waiting for someone in the PR card renewal office to finish anything.

Exactly, according to the IRCC agents, these two are completely independent processes and don’t have anything to interfere with each other - all those 1 2 3 4 reasons are nothing but wild imagination with no factual evidence

 

[sns204]

For anyone applying for citizenship that has a PR card expiring within the year that they rely on for travel, I think the best advice is to apply for the replacement as early as you're allowed after filing for citizenship. The $50 fee is a small price to pay for some peace of mind to know that no matter what, you'll be able to travel.

 

[abdlhsb]

I applied for citizenship in January and applied for PR card renewal in March as I had to travel. According to my personal experience I received my renewed PR card within 3months and shortly after my citizenship application was completed.