My step daughter's PR card expires and she does not qualify to renew it as she has not been living in Canada.
How does she apply for a visitor visa? All the information I have managed to find just says for her to renew her PR card.
Can any one help?
As many will tell you PR cards expire, PR status never expires so she cannot apply for a vistor visa as she is still a PR.
With an expired PR card the usual advice would be to apply for a PRTD given without one of those or a valid PR card she cannot even board a plane. Given sounds as though she has not met the residency obligation if she applied for a PRTD it is possible it would be refused and immigration would start to revoke her PR status.
A PR card cannot in any case be renewed from outside Canada.
If she were planning to come back to Canada to live not visit then it would be recommended she came back via the US Land border and hope she did not get reported for failing RO, but then she would need to stay 2 years to renew her PR card.
Or simply come in that way for a visit on the understanding her PR status could get revoked anyway but as a PR she would be entitled to enter the country. This assumes she has a US visa of course.
Or she could simply apply now to renounce her PR status and then apply for visitor visa.
Renouncing PR status is not a step to take lightly without considering all options.
