Again, experts had already said, a foreign address cannot get PR card, PRTD instead. IRCC only states that you can only apply for PR Card IN Canada, never says it cannot be your vacation IN Canada. I suppose to live in Canada for close to 6 months though, I am not sure my LIVING address can be a foreign address where my family is. It's a very weird situation, I live in Canada for so long but not be consider a resident, because my PRIMARY address should be in US.
I am no expert. So I do not feign to give advice. I do not pretend to know where you actually live. I cannot say, for example, what "
residential address" would be accurate and honest for you.
No expertise necessary to know that being honest in giving answers to the questions in the PR card application is overwhelmingly the best approach.
No expertise necessary to know that a PR's status does not depend on having a valid PR card. And that if you can easily travel to and from Canada through U.S./Canada border crossings, as long as you actually continue to comply with the RO and can prove it, there is no compelling reason to apply for a PR card.
And no crystal ball or prophetic powers needed to recognize that there is a risk, probably a significant risk, that no matter how you answer the questions in the application for a new PR card, given your situation, your history, the application could trigger non-routine scrutiny. Not that it will for sure. But enough of a risk to exercise caution and be prepared, at the least for a significant delay in getting a new PR card, but potentially subjected to a residency-related investigation and formal determination, with potentially a rather close examination of the particular answers you have given.
How you proceed is a personal decision. If you can honestly report you have a residential address in Canada, where you are actually living, and you are in Canada, that satisfies the form for making the application. Whether you want to proceed with it, that, again, is a personal decision.
If you cannot honestly declare that your current residential address is one in Canada, how you proceed is still a decision for you to make. But again, as long as you stay compliant with the RO and can easily travel to Canada via the U.S./Canada border, there is little or no need to apply for a new PR card. Do that if and when you have returned to Canada to more or less stay.
US address is acceptable but you must send in your application while in Canada. You could be on vacation in Canada and send in the application. As everyone has said your US address is your residential address.
Query for clarification: are you saying it is acceptable to give a U.S. address in response to the question (question 2.6) that specifically asks the PR to provide "
your current residential address in Canada?" And then proceed to check the boxes that say:
[ ] I certify that the information given on this form and in any documents included is correct, complete and accurate.
[ ] I understand that any false statements or concealments of a material fact may be grounds for my prosecution or removal.
Note: not everyone here has said, regarding the OP's queries, that "
your US address is your residential address." In fact, in response to the OP's query only one other post, other than yours, says that.
(Note, in contrast, question 2.9 clearly allows the PR to give either a "
Canada/US" primary telephone number, or "
other," and asks for the "
Country code." I doubt this sheds any light on what is "
acceptable" in responding to question 2.6 regarding residential address in Canada.)
I am aware that there are a few (rather few) anecdotal reports from PRs who claim to have made the PR card application from abroad, and were OK in the sense that a PR card was issued and delivered, but in recent years I can recall only one claiming to have given a residential address outside Canada. There are many more anecdotal reports by PRs who report providing a Canadian address they could "
use" (such as an address for a friend or family member) rather than where they were actually living, and not all but most of them have indicated they came to Canada at least long enough to make the PR card application while here (although some apparently sent their application to someone in Canada to in turn send to IRCC).
It is not clear, however, what they did was "
acceptable," or whether they simply got away with it.
What is clear, in contrast, is that the new form puts more emphasis on verifying the accuracy of the information . . . and while it may be more cautious than necessary (I tend to urge more caution than what I too often personally exercise, my failings are many -- I guess I generally take more risks, personally, than I suggest others do), it is undoubtedly worth seriously considering whether to "
certify" that a U.S. address is the PR's "
residential address in Canada."
For
@bricksonly, nonetheless, the real issue is not so much about what address to declare, given the ongoing pattern of living outside Canada more than in Canada. The real issue is whether there is any need to make a PR card application at all.
If the long range plan is to eventually settle in Canada, as long as
@bricksonly remains in compliance with the PR Residency Obligation and can easily travel to Canada via a border crossing with the U.S., there is no need to apply for a PR card at all. Even if the long range plan is not to eventually settle in Canada, actually, again as long as
@bricksonly remains in compliance with the PR Residency Obligation and can easily travel to Canada via a border crossing with the U.S., there is no need to apply for a PR card. While obtaining a valid PR card good for five years would be more convenient, that convenience may not be worth the risk of triggering the kind and degree of elevated scrutiny that can be anticipated by making a non-resident application in conjunction with
cutting-it-close and having a lengthy history of primarily residing abroad, not settling permanently in Canada.
