Hi there everyone,
My fiance and I are Australian citizens, and received our Canadian PR (at the Peace Arch border crossing) on July 16th, 2016. We are currently waiting for our PR cards to be processed and mailed to us, but we're also going to be leaving Canada on September 27th for 3 weeks, to get married in Australia, after which we'll be returning to Canada for the next couple of years.
I have been looking into what documents we might need for travel if our PR cards don't arrive in time, and am getting conflicting information regarding obtaining a PRTD whilst in Australia so that we're not refused by the airline, or not mentioning our PR status to the airline as we board.
When we had our PR activated at the border, the officer said that if we intended to travel outside Canada before our cards arrived, we should just present our 'CoPR' forms (which are currently stapled in our passports), because there shouldn't be an issue 'most of the time'. I'm just a bit concerned that we'll encounter problems, especially with the complication of a marriage and name change (which won't yet be reflected in any of our Canadian documents).
We have a number of docs we can take with us that support our Canadian ties (rental agreements, tax forms, work contracts etc), but the originals of our most recent valid work permits (valid til July 2017) were taken by the officer who processed our PR.
Has anyone had any recent experience with this? Do we really need to get the PRTD while we're in Australia? And how should we approach our return flights if we aren't able to get one?
Thanks in advance for any advice, it would be greatly appreciated!
My fiance and I are Australian citizens, and received our Canadian PR (at the Peace Arch border crossing) on July 16th, 2016. We are currently waiting for our PR cards to be processed and mailed to us, but we're also going to be leaving Canada on September 27th for 3 weeks, to get married in Australia, after which we'll be returning to Canada for the next couple of years.
I have been looking into what documents we might need for travel if our PR cards don't arrive in time, and am getting conflicting information regarding obtaining a PRTD whilst in Australia so that we're not refused by the airline, or not mentioning our PR status to the airline as we board.
When we had our PR activated at the border, the officer said that if we intended to travel outside Canada before our cards arrived, we should just present our 'CoPR' forms (which are currently stapled in our passports), because there shouldn't be an issue 'most of the time'. I'm just a bit concerned that we'll encounter problems, especially with the complication of a marriage and name change (which won't yet be reflected in any of our Canadian documents).
We have a number of docs we can take with us that support our Canadian ties (rental agreements, tax forms, work contracts etc), but the originals of our most recent valid work permits (valid til July 2017) were taken by the officer who processed our PR.
Has anyone had any recent experience with this? Do we really need to get the PRTD while we're in Australia? And how should we approach our return flights if we aren't able to get one?
Thanks in advance for any advice, it would be greatly appreciated!