Hi Rajkamal,
Thanks a lot for your valuable insight.
We are planning to give the authorities a local address (of one of my friends) for sending the PR card,so that my friend can mail the same to me when I am back in India. Based on what you have told, I don't need a travel document unless I plan to visit Canada again in the meantime, before I receive the PR card. Am I correct? -
Spot on!
Regarding the problem that I was anticipating with respect to 'return tickets', my point is, if the authorities at the landing airport find that we have landed there with a return ticket for my home country, can they ask questions about that or ask us to cite reasons (as in why do we want to return without getting PR card)?
If you are questioned, you can always tell them that you are going back because of XXX (Personal Commitments/Sale of a land/sale of vehicles/settling bank accounts etc) and you will definitely be back by XX. But, I wonder why the officer would look at your tickets in the first place. All he needs to see is your PP/Visa and COPR. Not your airline tickets. Unless and otherwise asked, do not tell the officer anything about your trip.
Also, can you tell me whether staying in Canada with 7 working days in hand, would good enough to finish all the basic formalities in the initial days?
Yes - you can apply for SIN and open a bank account. Wouldn't need 7 days for that . You can walk around the place and begin getting familiar with the new society around you.
Regards,
Sourav