HELP PLEASE - Already Entered Canada as a Permanent Resident??

[aflower]

HELP PLEASE?

I have been waiting for almost two months on an approval letter for my sponsor. Well, we got the letter today and I am sooo confused.

My parents and I were landed immigrants in Canada in 1980 and I lived there for the first 13 yrs of my life. Anyway, I haven't been in Canada as a resident since 1993, but the letter says that I have previously entered Canada as a permanent resident and I have to determine my current Canadian Immigration Status. It gives me no guide on how to do it and the directions as to what follows are so vague.

Does anyone know how I can look that up? Is it possible I may not have to get a sponsor after being out of Canada for 20yrs? I'd love to avoid this immigration process if possible.

 

[Sabrinkh]

Im surprised you didnt get your citizenship by then. You would have been able to come and go as you pleased. If you were only a PR then your status is gone because you have to live in canada for at least 2-3 out of every 5 years i believe. You may have to be sponsored or go through immigration all over again.

 

[aflower]

Thank you for the advice. I was only 13yrs at the time, so becoming Canadian was not on my mind at the time. But from my understanding of it, becoming a Canadian does not give you the right to have dual citizenship. I don't plan on becoming a Canadian in the future either. I'd like to be an American that's PR in Canada.

Anyway, I will email the CIC and see what's going on. Not thrilled to potentially have this process delayed any more. Fingers crossed they'll just let be skip the process and be a PR since I grew up here.

 

[MapleLeafBride]

Thank you for the advice. I was only 13yrs at the time, so becoming Canadian was not on my mind at the time. But from my understanding of it, becoming a Canadian does not give you the right to have dual citizenship. I don't plan on becoming a Canadian in the future either. I'd like to be an American that's PR in Canada.

Anyway, I will email the CIC and see what's going on. Not thrilled to potentially have this process delayed any more. Fingers crossed they'll just let be skip the process and be a PR since I grew up here.

You can be a dual Canadian-American citizen if that's what you were talking about in the first part of this message. You don't have to give either up.

 

[PMM]

Hi

Thank you for the advice. I was only 13yrs at the time, so becoming Canadian was not on my mind at the time. But from my understanding of it, becoming a Canadian does not give you the right to have dual citizenship. I don't plan on becoming a Canadian in the future either. I'd like to be an American that's PR in Canada.

Anyway, I will email the CIC and see what's going on. Not thrilled to potentially have this process delayed any more. Fingers crossed they'll just let be skip the process and be a PR since I grew up here.

1. You have to either apply for a TD and get refused, and not appeal and your previous PR is gone or your are going to have to renounce your PR status, see: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/bulletins/2013/ob505.asp