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URGENT Traveling with PR Card

dido123

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Dec 27, 2014
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Hello,
I applied from 14 months for a prtd and it was declined and i make an appeal.i came to canada from 1 year through the border and i got employed and home and car.i also got a pr card for 1 year.for a very urgent traveling case , i need to get back to my country for 1 week since there was a court on my country and it was suceeded and i need to get the money from it and take them and put them in canada.if i didnt do this , i cant take the money.plz help
 

dpenabill

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Apr 2, 2010
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dido123 said:
Hello,
I applied from 14 months for a prtd and it was declined and i make an appeal.i came to canada from 1 year through the border and i got employed and home and car.i also got a pr card for 1 year.for a very urgent traveling case , i need to get back to my country for 1 week since there was a court on my country and it was suceeded and i need to get the money from it and take them and put them in canada.if i didnt do this , i cant take the money.plz help
If the one year PR card is still valid, and will still be valid long enough to make the return trip to Canada, you can use it to board a flight back to Canada. With an appeal still pending it is indeed a good idea to make the trip as short as possible.

If the one year PR card is not valid long enough to make this trip, make a new application for another one-year card, include request for urgent processing, include proof of purchase of tickets for the trip. I do not know how this will go, but it should be worth trying. You can call the IRCC call centre and ask about this, but I suspect this situation is not covered by their FAQ outlines and thus the response you get may not be responsive or even reliable.

You can of course go ahead and make the trip and either apply for a special PR TD for the return trip (not sure how this works in your fairly unusual circumstances -- after all, virtually all PRs in a similar situation are going to stay put in Canada if they are really interested in retaining PR status) or do as apparently you have before, somehow manage to travel to Canada; PoE officers should readily find you in the system and so long as the appeal has not yet been denied you will be allowed to enter Canada.

If you can delay attending to the matter abroad, that is probably the more prudent thing to do. But it is difficult to forecast how long it might be before your appeal is decided. Recent IAD cases reflect a wide range of timelines, the time between the PR TD denial and the IAD decision ranging up to three plus years, but some being decided in less than two years (see http://canlii.ca/t/gns3w for example, PR TD denied May 15, 2014 and IAD decision is dated Jan 20, 2016).