How to cancel a PR?

[Belle Ginou]

I have a complicated case and I needed advice. I helped my husband and step daughter who is 7 to come to Canada in 2017. She is not settling in well and wants to go back to Jamaica to live with her mother and extended family. She has PR status and I wanted to know whats the best way to cancel her PR status. I also wanted to know if she is over in Jamaica am I still responsible for her as I signed an agreement?

 

[Buletruck]

I don’t believe you can cancel your sponsorship. She would have to renounce it or possibly her parents. If she retains her PR, you are responsible for the duration. If she decided to come back and claim welfare in the first 3 years, it’s on you to repay it.

 

[scylla]

I have a complicated case and I needed advice. I helped my husband and step daughter who is 7 to come to Canada in 2017. She is not settling in well and wants to go back to Jamaica to live with her mother and extended family. She has PR status and I wanted to know whats the best way to cancel her PR status. I also wanted to know if she is over in Jamaica am I still responsible for her as I signed an agreement?

There is no best way. You cannot cancel her PR status - you do not have this right. She is free to keep her PR status.

You are only financially responsible for her if she is in Canada.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I don’t believe you can cancel your sponsorship. She would have to renounce it or possibly her parents. If she retains her PR, you are responsible for the duration. If she decided to come back and claim welfare in the first 3 years, it’s on you to repay it.

Dependent child undertaking is 10 years.

 

[Belle Ginou]

There is no best way. You cannot cancel her PR status - you do not have this right. She is free to keep her PR status.

You are only financially responsible for her if she is in Canada.

If she doesn't meet PR obligations yet, what would happen? She hasnt resided here more than 730 days?

 

[zardoz]

If she doesn't meet PR obligations yet, what would happen? She hasnt resided here more than 730 days?

Nothing. Until her residency is explicitly revoked by IRCC as a result of being examined, she remains a Permanent Resident.
As said before, you can't initiate the process. Stop trying to get out of your sponsorship undertaking.

I would also like to point out that there is no possibility of her not meeting the Residency Obligation requirements if it has been less than 1096 days since she became a PR.

 

[Belle Ginou]

Nothing. Until her residency is explicitly revoked by IRCC as a result of being examined, she remains a Permanent Resident.
As said before, you can't initiate the process. Stop trying to get out of your sponsorship undertaking.

I would also like to point out that there is no possibility of her not meeting the Residency Obligation requirements if it has been less than 1096 days since she became a PR.

She is now out of Canada living in Jamaica, but her bio mom and extended family are trying to get her pr card from my spouse which I feel they have no right to have? This is why I was asking because they are trying to find entry into Canada.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

She is now out of Canada living in Jamaica, but her bio mom and extended family are trying to get her pr card from my spouse which I feel they have no right to have? This is why I was asking because they are trying to find entry into Canada.

Having her PR card will do absolutely NOTHING for them. They cannot use it to enter Canada themselves.

 

[21Goose]

She is now out of Canada living in Jamaica, but her bio mom and extended family are trying to get her pr card from my spouse which I feel they have no right to have? This is why I was asking because they are trying to find entry into Canada.

Even if they get her PR card, no one else can use it for anything.

 

[Belle Ginou]

Thank you for the information!

 

[zardoz]

She is now out of Canada living in Jamaica, but her bio mom and extended family are trying to get her pr card from my spouse which I feel they have no right to have? This is why I was asking because they are trying to find entry into Canada.

Nobody is entitled to have her PR card except her. If your spouse has her PR card and is refusing to return it to her, that's probably "theft". She can report it as stolen to both the police and IRCC.

She can apply for a Permanent Resident Travel Document and get the PR card replaced by IRCC when she is back in Canada.

Trying to take her PR status by withholding her PR card is not going to work.

 

[Belle Ginou]

Nobody is entitled to have her PR card except her. If your spouse has her PR card and is refusing to return it to her, that's probably "theft". She can report it as stolen to both the police and IRCC.

My spouse is sponsored under family sponsorship class along with 2 children have PR status. She is only 7 years old. How is it theft if she cant travel to Canada alone without her PR dad?

 

[zardoz]

My spouse is sponsored under family sponsorship class along with 2 children have PR status. She is only 7 years old. How is it theft if she cant travel to Canada alone without her PR dad?

That's completely irrelevant. The PR card is hers and must be given to her. It is not yours, or your spouse's, to withhold.

Her PR status is not dependent on anyone else and she has the legal right to travel to and enter Canada, even if it's with someone else.

If she or her relatives manage to find this forum, they will be told the same thing.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Nobody is entitled to have her PR card except her. If your spouse has her PR card and is refusing to return it to her, that's probably "theft". She can report it as stolen to both the police and IRCC.

She can apply for a Permanent Resident Travel Document and get the PR card replaced by IRCC when she is back in Canada.

Trying to take her PR status by withholding her PR card is not going to work.

I seriously doubt that any law enforcement agency would consider it theft or any other misuse for a parent to have possession of their 7 year old child's PR card.

 

[zardoz]

I seriously doubt that any law enforcement agency would consider it theft or any other misuse for a parent to have possession of their 7 year old child's PR card.

That's why I put it in quotes.

If the other parent, who presumably currently has custody, is requesting it on behalf of the child however, as appears to be the case....