I became a Canadian Permanent resident in 2014. In 2021 I also became a US Citizen. Since 2014, I only have visited Canada twice for couple of days. I never applied to voluntarily renounce my permanent resident status. Now I plan to visit to Canada next month on US passport. My question is that what kind of questions I will be asked by Canadian border officials. I know that I still have Canadian PR and I have not voluntarily renounced it, but at the same time I have not fulfilled my residency obligations. What kind of actions will Canadian border officials take? Will this have any impact on my US Citizenship. I will be landing at Toronto Pearson international Airport
They will likely ask you about your residency obligation. As a PR, they must let you in. There are basically only a few things they can do.
-wave you in and do nothing.
-give you a stern talking to/warning and do nothing OR put a note on your file for the next guy to deal with.
-that warning could include telling you that you must renounce but the note on the file won't say much more than that (I don't think substantially different than the one before this).
-Report you for not fulfilling RO under section 44(1), which will result in revoking your PR status unless you appeal. (You can appeal of course).
No idea what will happen. It will not affect your US citizenship as far as I'm aware, but hey - ask the americans. This might be all very quick and pleasant or longer (depending on lines in secondary, basically) and unpleasant (if the border officer is aggressive). Obviously with a note on file, future crossings might be longer and more problematic (if they don't revoke etc).
AS a US passport holder, you will still be able to board airplanes to Canada (whether you are still a PR or not).
Experiences differ here, but often enough, sometimes at least, the border officers don't want to spend time on the paperwork and let people through with either warnings or get the PR (you) to promise to renounce.
Note, mhy impression is that this somewhat more relaxed approach is more specific to US citizens. But longer term they don't want people to keep PR status just in case and will likely eventually want it dealt with.
