PR Expired card for Italian Citizen

[Cristi11ca]

Hello,

my mom is an Italian citizen (with a valid Italian passport) Canadian landed immigrant with an expired PR card. She needs to travel to Italy, since her sister is very sick. She won't receive her card, even if we request it urgent, and can't travel to Rome to get returning travel document (she's 80). I contacted Air Canada to find out if they would allow her to board the flight without a PR card and they didn't know. Also, would they give her a hard time when she arrives in Canada? She's been living in Canada for the past 43 years. Can you please give me advise.
Thank you

 

[Lammawitch]

With a visa exempt passport she should not have a problem, even less of one if she has a return ticket from Canada.

When checking in/boarding to return to Canada, with a visa exempt passport, it is unlikely she will be asked for a PR card, and she shouldn't even mention it.

(Source: personal experience, my son's experience, other anecdotal experience cited on this board).

 

[Cristi11ca]

thank you! How about when arriving back in Canada?

 

[Lammawitch]

Again, personal experience:

I've arrived back in Canada (visa exempt passport) & been sent to secondary, got a "lecture" from CBSA about the expired card, admitted.

Son arrived back in Canada, prepared to face secondary/a grilling/problems (with his anxious mum waiting in arrivals with a sheaf of documents ): waved through with no questions.

NB: in both our cases, we had way over minimum residency requirements, and CBSA could easily see this without recourse to back-up documents.

I've never, in many years (not as many as your mother), been asked for a PR card / status in Canada by an airline.