PR Card Renewal

[Dominica]

Dear All,

I will complete 730 days by November 2016. My PR card will expire in June,2017, can i submit my application to renew my PR card soon after i complete 730 days as i have seen it takes a long time and i will have to travel to my home country in September,2017 hence do not want to face any problems then.

Thanks
Dominica

 

[steaky]

That's a bad idea! What if your calculations is wrong?

 

[dpenabill]

Or if the stranger bureaucrat deciding your application has questions about any of the time you declare?

Anyone applying for a replacement PR card and who has been mostly living outside Canada (less than 900 days in Canada, especially less than 800 days), should anticipate the risk of additional review of their compliance with the PR Residency Obligation, and thus the possibility of delays beyond even the currently rather long routine processing times.

Personally I would at least get past 800 days in Canada before applying for the new card (recognizing that some are in situations which make waiting impractical).

This is not like getting to the threshold of qualification for citizenship and applying with only a small margin (a couple weeks or so say; and regarding which my view is to even give this more of a margin). The minimum requirement for citizenship requires the PR to have been mostly living in Canada for quite a long while (minimum four years currently).

The natural and reasonable inferences tend to go the other direction, in contrast, when someone has been mostly living outside Canada.