Do i need PR card when i coming back

[rano]

hello friends ,

I am with my family hoping to land in May or June but i would like to ask that once we landing in my friends house in canada living for 1 week and without waiting for PR card,we planning to drop children in our country and we both coming back in 4-5 weeks , my concern is at airport when we coming back will they allow us to enter on COPR or we need PR card , for which we not thinking to wait for 30 days in canada with small kids without job.

i will be very grateful if i find any reply. thanks.

[wilson]

Yes you can go out of Canada and return without a PR Card to Canada. Get a travel document as mentioned in CIC website:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/5529E.asp

You cannot re-enter with copy of COPR.