Get new PR card for Canada sent to US

[dereks]

Hi everyone,

I recently got married in the US and my PR for Canada expires in Oct. I would like to go back to Canada for a month in December so am wondering if I can ask on the PR renewal application if they could send the card to my US address instead of my Canadian address so I can cross the border with it?

If not, I'm an Irish citizen so I guess I could just enter on a tourist visa at the border or with my US PR.

Thanks for your help in clarifying this,

Derek

 

[MiriamT]

Hi everyone,

I recently got married in the US and my PR for Canada expires in Oct. I would like to go back to Canada for a month in December so am wondering if I can ask on the PR renewal application if they could send the card to my US address instead of my Canadian address so I can cross the border with it?

If not, I'm an Irish citizen so I guess I could just enter on a tourist visa at the border or with my US PR.

Thanks for your help in clarifying this,

Derek

Permanent resident cards are not mailed (by CIC) outside of Canada.

 

[dereks]

Thank you, I assume entering with a US green card will be fine? (Then I can get the new Canadian PR card at my Canadian address.

 

[MiriamT]

Thank you, I assume entering with a US green card will be fine? (Then I can get the new Canadian PR card at my Canadian address.

You don't need a visa to enter Canada, and presenting the US Green Card would be for the purpose of having the visa requirement waived if you needed one. Use your Irish passport, and at the customs you can show CBSA your COPR.

 

[dereks]

Okay, thank you. So you think it's best to show them my Irish passport and only tell them I got married in the US if they ask questions about it?

 

[MiriamT]

Okay, thank you. So you think it's best to show them my Irish passport and only tell them I got married in the US if they ask questions about it?

I honestly don't think they'll even care that you got married abroad. In all these years as a PR at the most I was asked was, many years ago, "what's the purpose of your trip to Canada?" "I live here; you have my PR Card in your hands." And now with the automated machines at the airports I don't even get to talk to an officer anymore, they just collect my little piece of paper that the machine gave me a copy of, and that's it.

Although I don't know how you'll do it because the machine needs to scan the PR Card (or Canadian passport, which you don't have), so maybe they'll have to do it manually and you may be asked questions about residency. If you meet RO there's nothing to worry about, but it may be a good idea to have proof to present with you.

 

[dereks]

Okay, thanks for your help.