Flight Travel without PR Card

[lpit]

Hi Guys,

If you could review and advise, we would truly appreciate it!

Background

• My wife and child are US citizens, and I am a Canadian PR. I applied for residency for wife and child in July 2017, and their application was approved in Jan 2018. They completed landing on April 03, 2018 and hence we have signed and completed COPRs for my wife and child
• We were moving our residence shortly after the landing so we provided our new address for receiving the PR cards by mail; on inquiring if the PR cards would arrive at the new address, the officer doing our landing repeatedly confirmed they will. We also enabled mail forwarding, in the outside chance that the cards were mailed to our old address
• We received my wife's PR card on May 28, 2018. When we didn't receive our son's PR card, I called CIC to inquire, and they confirmed, due to 'an error', they sent my son's PR card to the old address
• We are scheduled to travel to India for my father's death anniversary on June 10, 2018 (less than 10 days from now)

Question
If we don't receive my son's PR card and yet travel with the following documents -

• myself: Passport, PR Card
• wife: US Passport, PR Card, COPR
• son: US Passport, COPR
• family: birth certificate for son, marriage certificate for wife/me

would we still have trouble re-entering?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Rob_TO]

Hi Guys,

If you could review and advise, we would truly appreciate it!

Background

• My wife and child are US citizens, and I am a Canadian PR. I applied for residency for wife and child in July 2017, and their application was approved in Jan 2018. They completed landing on April 03, 2018 and hence we have signed and completed COPRs for my wife and child
• We were moving our residence shortly after the landing so we provided our new address for receiving the PR cards by mail; on inquiring if the PR cards would arrive at the new address, the officer doing our landing repeatedly confirmed they will. We also enabled mail forwarding, in the outside chance that the cards were mailed to our old address
• We received my wife's PR card on May 28, 2018. When we didn't receive our son's PR card, I called CIC to inquire, and they confirmed, due to 'an error', they sent my son's PR card to the old address
• We are scheduled to travel to India for my father's death anniversary on June 10, 2018 (less than 10 days from now)

Question
If we don't receive my son's PR card and yet travel with the following documents -

• myself: Passport, PR Card
• wife: US Passport, PR Card, COPR
• son: US Passport, COPR
• family: birth certificate for son, marriage certificate for wife/me

would we still have trouble re-entering?

Thanks in advance!

Re-entering Canada at the Canadian airport though CBSA will be no issues at all. What you have is more than enough to be granted entry as PRs.

Only potential issue is boarding the airplane back to Canada. If the airline knows you're a PR, they may demand to see nothing short of a valid PR card or PR Travel Document in order to be allowed boarding. COPRs will be useless to the airlines, they are only used by CBSA upon entry to Canada.

However since US citizens don't need eTA, your son can just fly as a visitor on his US passport alone. I would recommend NOT telling the airline about your son's PR status as it may only complicate things. To the airline, he is just a US citizen visitor traveling on his US passport.

 

[lpit]

However since US citizens don't need eTA, your son can just fly as a visitor on his US passport alone. I would recommend NOT telling the airline about your son's PR status as it may only complicate things. To the airline, he is just a US citizen visitor traveling on his US passport.

Awesome - Thanks @Rob_TO. Super helpful! Forgot about the having to deal with airlines on the way back. That makes perfect sense!

 

[canvis2006]

do update us on how it goes......

 

[lpit]

Will do