Permanent Resident Card- Travelling outside Canada

[sepcat]

Hi,

I'm moving to Toronto with my partner at the end of January and we are thinking of travelling to the US in the beginning of March. I don't think my Permanent Resident Card will be ready within a month, so what alternative document do I need to show when re-entering Canada? How do I get this document and can it be ready relatively quickly?

Thank you,
Cat

 

[rjessome]

Hi,

I'm moving to Toronto with my partner at the end of January and we are thinking of travelling to the US in the beginning of March. I don't think my Permanent Resident Card will be ready within a month, so what alternative document do I need to show when re-entering Canada? How do I get this document and can it be ready relatively quickly?

Thank you,
Cat

Are you visa exempt for Canada? If you are visa exempt, you don't need the PR card as you can enter on your own passport. However, you are supposed to tell them you are a PR of Canada and they will be able to see the voided PR visa and you should show them your Confirmation of Permanent Residence as well. Advise them that you are still waiting for the PR card.

 

[sepcat]

Hi,

Thank you. Yes, I am visa exempt, so I should be ok. I just got confused as I understood that I would need a permanent resident travel document from a Canadian visa office abroad that replaced by PR if i didn't have it with me at the time I was re-entering Canada. I guess this is only true for people who lose their PR card or when their card is expired, right?

 

[rjessome]

Hi,

Thank you. Yes, I am visa exempt, so I should be ok. I just got confused as I understood that I would need a permanent resident travel document from a Canadian visa office abroad that replaced by PR if i didn't have it with me at the time I was re-entering Canada. I guess this is only true for people who lose their PR card or when their card is expired, right?

Yes, or for people from countries that are not visa exempt. If they don't have the PR card they require the travel document as they will not be allowed to board the plane to enter Canada. You won't have that problem.

 

[cuds]

I went to the States and back into Canada as a PR who did not receive the PR card yet.

I am also from a Visa Exempt country.

When we entered Canada again, I told the officer in the booth that I am a Permanent Resident, but I did not receive my card yet. He looked at the visa (sticker in passport that had a line over it, done while landing) and said we'd have to go to the building.

He wrote on a piece of paper "claims residency". So we went in the building, mind you I did not carry my record of landing with me.

Basically what happened; the officer inside told me I was supposed to have the Record of Landing with me ... so he did some things(?) on his computer and let me in


-- Suggestion; carry your record of landing and you should be good!