PR card expiring - US citizen

[Elzaaa2000]

My PR card is expiring in May 2022. I just applied to renew (sent documents in early March) but I read it could take several months to get the renewed card. I have travel planned at the end of June and I am trying to figure out what to do if I don't have the new PR card by then.

Can I return via plane with a US passport and expired PR card or will I still have issues?

Also, I read that crossing by land via car could work. Anyone have experience with either one of these options?

 

[armoured]

Can I return via plane with a US passport and expired PR card or will I still have issues?

Also, I read that crossing by land via car could work. Anyone have experience with either one of these options?

Where will you be returning from, USA? (I mean the final flight, eg if you transit through NYC, that's from USA).

In degrees of confidence:
-wherever you physically get to a port of entry (physically in Canada), you will be let into the country based on your passport/expired PR card.
-lots of people do this by-car from USA, no problem.

You may get asked about residency obligation, good to have some basics of your application for card renewal.

Everything else: the issue is whether you will be allowed to board the plane. Check with the airline.

Since USA citizens don't need ETA, you should be able to board with passport. But best to check with airline.
-chances quite good flights originating in USA will know this and not find anything unusual about it.
-theoretically I believe should be same from elsewhere but ... sometimes confusion reigns and you don't want to be the person working it out with them.

[I think covid complicated this for a while but has been overtaken by border changes, i.e. vaccinated US citizens can now enter for basically any reason. Not following the covid changes closely though]