Hi, our PR application was approved in September 2019 and we have been give a visa to arrive in Canada by July 2020. We plan to make a soft landing in Canada in May 2020 however we only intend to be there for about 2 weeks and return to Malaysia to sort out everything before we move for good. I understand that PR card takes up to about 1 month for processing. How does everyone go about this usually? Is it alright to provide perhaps a friend's address to receive the PR card?
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Sure people provide a friend or relative address all the time and have them courier to them in their home country. Some CBSA agents can sometimes be awkward if implying this is your plan so best advice is to not volunteer this fact but just give them an address and not volunteer any extra information unless asked.
It is not by the way illegal to courier outside of Canada just that IRCC will not do it and therefore like to discourage anyone from doing it, but after all it is your card (s)
It is not by the way illegal to courier outside of Canada just that IRCC will not do it and therefore like to discourage anyone from doing it, but after all it is your card (s)
Response by @Bs65 describes a very common approach. Viability of this depends in large part on the reliability and trustworthiness of the friend or family member whose address is used.
There are virtually NO reports of problems doing this EXCEPT problems related to the address itself or resulting from the unreliability of the person whose address is used.
That said, some clarifications:
To be clear, Canadian PR cards are the property of the Canadian government. Same for Canadian passports. A PR card, one might say "after all," belongs to the government and is issued and delivered to a PR for the PR's use as provided by law. (Technically, a PR card "remains the property of Her Majesty in right of Canada" per Regulation 53(2) IRPA Regulations (should link).)
As for the legality of sending a PR card via courier, it is also my understanding that Canadian law does not prohibit sending a PR card abroad via courier (or by other means as far as I am aware), and doing so is very common, but so far as I have seen this is based on near universal reporting of no problems doing this (again except as to those related to the reliability of the address and persons there), which indicates there is NO enforcement of any such prohibition, rather than reliable research confirming there is no such restriction.
Which leads to . . . However, the legality of sending items to a location outside Canada depends far more on the laws of the country to which the item is being sent. Importation laws govern what can be sent to a particular country. Some countries in the world have far more strict laws about this than many others. This is particularly so regarding "Travel Documents;" some countries having stringent requirements governing the importation of Travel Documents. A Canadian PR card is NOT a Travel Document in Canadian law (it is a status document) but Canadian law does not govern the importation rules for other countries. Thus whether a PR card constitutes a "Travel Document" subject to strict importation rules again depends on the laws of the country it is being sent to.
I suspect that even in regards to some countries which might technically prohibit importing Travel Documents via courier (except diplomatic couriers), and which might consider a PR card to be a Travel Document, it seems likely many have nonetheless sent PR cards into the country via courier with NO problem. Enforcement of such laws, after all, is not particularly easy and could largely be hit-and-miss EVEN IF the country attempts to more strictly enforce such restrictions.
I have no clue what the importation laws prescribe in Malaysia, let alone its enforcement policies.
There are virtually NO reports of problems doing this EXCEPT problems related to the address itself or resulting from the unreliability of the person whose address is used.
That said, some clarifications:
To be clear, Canadian PR cards are the property of the Canadian government. Same for Canadian passports. A PR card, one might say "after all," belongs to the government and is issued and delivered to a PR for the PR's use as provided by law. (Technically, a PR card "remains the property of Her Majesty in right of Canada" per Regulation 53(2) IRPA Regulations (should link).)
As for the legality of sending a PR card via courier, it is also my understanding that Canadian law does not prohibit sending a PR card abroad via courier (or by other means as far as I am aware), and doing so is very common, but so far as I have seen this is based on near universal reporting of no problems doing this (again except as to those related to the reliability of the address and persons there), which indicates there is NO enforcement of any such prohibition, rather than reliable research confirming there is no such restriction.
Which leads to . . . However, the legality of sending items to a location outside Canada depends far more on the laws of the country to which the item is being sent. Importation laws govern what can be sent to a particular country. Some countries in the world have far more strict laws about this than many others. This is particularly so regarding "Travel Documents;" some countries having stringent requirements governing the importation of Travel Documents. A Canadian PR card is NOT a Travel Document in Canadian law (it is a status document) but Canadian law does not govern the importation rules for other countries. Thus whether a PR card constitutes a "Travel Document" subject to strict importation rules again depends on the laws of the country it is being sent to.
I suspect that even in regards to some countries which might technically prohibit importing Travel Documents via courier (except diplomatic couriers), and which might consider a PR card to be a Travel Document, it seems likely many have nonetheless sent PR cards into the country via courier with NO problem. Enforcement of such laws, after all, is not particularly easy and could largely be hit-and-miss EVEN IF the country attempts to more strictly enforce such restrictions.
I have no clue what the importation laws prescribe in Malaysia, let alone its enforcement policies.
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