Enter on a visitor visa with a COPR?

[coffeebook]

I have a valid visitor visa and I just received my COPR.

I wanted to visit Canada, but I am not ready to immigrate. Can I enter Canada using my visitor visa, even though I have a COPR and a PR entry visa? Can I decline entry as a PR?

 

[armoured]

I have a valid visitor visa and I just received my COPR.

I wanted to visit Canada, but I am not ready to immigrate. Can I enter Canada using my visitor visa, even though I have a COPR and a PR entry visa? Can I decline entry as a PR?

I honestly don't know - but there is a possibility your visitor visa has been cancelled.

But can I ask. - what difference does it make? Come to visit, do the formal landing procedure, do your visit, leave and go back and return when ready. About the only complication really is needing an address to have the PR card mailed to. While in Canada, apply for your SIN. Do not, however, apply for health care before you return permanently.

As long as you keep an eye on the (easy) residency obligation of two years in five, there are not many downsides.

 

[coffeebook]

I'd like to visit family, haven't seen them since before the pandemic.

However, I can't travel without my PR card and it takes 2-4 months to receive. PRTDs are unreliable I hear they take a long time.

My flights are booked out of Canada with my wife as we thought we would have received the PR much earlier. Both of us want to visit our families.

 

[armoured]

I don't think I understand what you're proposing well enough.

But try it, worst that happena it seems to me is you end up landing formally and have to deal with prtd later.

If you ask the border guard to just let you enter as a visitor and he or she does, fine .

 

[YVR123]

I'd like to visit family, haven't seen them since before the pandemic.

However, I can't travel without my PR card and it takes 2-4 months to receive. PRTDs are unreliable I hear they take a long time.

My flights are booked out of Canada with my wife as we thought we would have received the PR much earlier. Both of us want to visit our families.

So you want to enter Canada as a visitor and then travel out very soon with your spouse to visit your families?

Why don't you both travel to where the families are and meet there? COPR have expiry date (usually 1 year from medical). So make sure that you plan to land before that day.