I try to avoid responding to posts hijacking a topic, and especially in instances like this, where
Kuttykutty hijacked this topic within the hour of the OP's query.
I do not have a response for the OP's query:
Angela19 said:
Hi,
I sponsored a friend and she's been in Canada for 1 yr now. She wants to go back home and renounce her PR status. Please let me know how her decision will affect me if I want to sponsor a family/friend in the future.
I used the Regulation 10 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) under the provincial nominee program in Manitoba. And I'm planning to sponsor a family member this year or next year.
Does she (my friend) needs to stay for 2 years to complete the residency obligation then she can renounce it if she wants? I'm afraid that I will be banned and will not be able to sponsor anymore if she renounce it this year since the last one is not successful.
Thank you so much.
Again, I do not have a response (query is outside scope of issues I follow).
I hope someone else does and will respond.
Regarding hijacking query posed by Kuttykutty: Is there an expiry date on the COPR?
First, it would be far more considerate to start a new topic or utilize a topic about the same subject rather than to interrupt/hijack a topic . . . especially when it was so soon as this time, and especially before anyone has responded to the OP.
As to the query about whether there is an "Expiry Date on the C O P R," why did you ask this question when, after two very experienced participants here have responded that there is, you report knowing the answer, purportedly to the contrary (which is literally erroneous, substantively correct if the question was meant to ask if the COPR itself has an expiry date)?
(And since the answer to query 1 should have been obvious, and you knew the answer to query 2, this makes the hijacking of the thread to pose these questions all the more . . . well, at least unnecessary if not suspicious.)
Technically, there are multiple expiry dates ON the COPR.
Note that there are multiple versions of the COPR, like many CIC forms. For example, the sample posted by
zardoz is very different from my COPR. Which expiry dates are
ON the COPR may depend on the version. Typically, however and at the least, there should be an expiry date
ON (or "in") the COPR for each of the following:
-- expiry date of passport held by the PR visa holder
-- expiry (or "validity") date of the medical
-- expiry (or "validity") date of the issued PR Visa
Of course the COPR does
NOT have an expiry date as to the
COPR itself. The COPR documents the event of landing. Like a Marriage certificate evidences the event of marriage itself, and it has no expiry date even though the marriage itself may, at some time in the future, be dissolved or voided or otherwise terminated. (Marriage licenses, depending on issuing jurisdiction, may have an expiry date, the date by which the marriage must take place; compare PR visa, which has expiry date, to CoPR which is essentially a certificate of becoming a PR.)
But I am a bit surprised that both
zardoz and
scylla appear to have misunderstood query 2 and, it appears, also misunderstood the COPR.
In the sample posted here by
zardoz the
Valid to date listed under
Application Details is in reference to the
PR Visa, which is, as
scylla observed, the first of either the date the individual's passport (or other Travel Document) expires or the one year anniversary of the medical . . . noting though
scylla mistakenly refers to this as the expiry date of the COPR.
In contrast, my version of the COPR has a section of numbered items and one has to look at the key (on back of the COPR) for those items to know what they are. In mine, item 31 is the date of medical validity, item 33 is the date of Visa validity, and the validity date for my passport is listed with personal details (but grouped differently than those in the sample posted by
zardoz). Since the date for item 31, in mine, was sooner than the expiry date of my passport, the date in item 33 is the same as in item 31.
In particular: the COPR is one of the most important documents a PR should keep in a safe location. It never expires, even after one has become a citizen, since again it is a paper documenting the event of landing itself and has no validity dates.
This document can be required to obtain pension benefits much later in life (for many if not most new immigrants . . . not much later for me, since I came to live permanently in Canada in what one might say is a later stage in life). A copy of it must be submitted with a citizenship application and the original produced at the time of the documents check interview. The COPR is not a travel document, but it is, in essence, a certificate of landing.
While the COPR is sent to the PR applicant, that is the PR visa recipient, before landing, it is not fully completed until the time of landing. Actually it has no validity until the date and
completion of landing.
In any event, I hope some one will respond to Angela19'
s query.
