Need to travel Urgent

[satd.]

I have Landed in last week of September.Now I have to travel this week  due to some emergency but i have not yet received my PR card. I read that i can apply for travel document from the country i am traveling to. I wanted to know if there is a certain residence obligations(730 days) in order to apply for travel document.Or i can apply because i am newly landed immigrant.i am not from visa wavier country.

Thanks guys.

[Leon]

You can apply for a travel document as long as you haven't spent 1095 days or more outside Canada since you landed.  As you haven't been a PR for 5 years yet, they don't require you to have spent 730 days in Canada.  It is enough that you still can before the 5 years are up.

[satd.]

Thanks a lot leon
Really appreciate it

[jimmy_kallarackal]

Hi Leon,

I am travelling from 27th oct to 4th nov to canada as new immigrant.

1. I will give address of 1 relative for delivery of pr card.Hope its fine and they would send the same to me in courier, So next time after few months when i travel to canada permanently i can travel with that card correct?

2. I want to leave canada on 4th nov hope they wont ask my PR card when i leave canada and passport of my country would suffice the requirement.?

Regards,
Jimmy

[Leon]

1. I will give address of 1 relative for delivery of pr card.Hope its fine and they would send the same to me in courier, So next time after few months when i travel to canada permanently i can travel with that card correct?

2. I want to leave canada on 4th nov hope they wont ask my PR card when i leave canada and passport of my country would suffice the requirement.?

1. If you get the PR card, you can travel back with it.  If you don't get it for some reason, you can apply for a travel document at the Canadian embassy.

2. Nobody will ask you for a PR card in order to leave Canada.

[baba1234]

Dear Leon,

I really appreciate for your prompt and good advices to the needy people. And i had a question for you I always observe in this forum that the only obligation is to complete 730 in canada and can live outside not more than 1095 days to maintain PR status, but when i went for health card registration there the official told me that i cannot stay more than 6 months outside canada in order to keep my health card valid.

Dear leon can throw some light on this issue.

[Leon]

Dear Leon,

I really appreciate for your prompt and good advices to the needy people. And i had a question for you I always observe in this forum that the only obligation is to complete 730 in canada and can live outside not more than 1095 days to maintain PR status, but when i went for health card registration there the official told me that i cannot stay more than 6 months outside canada in order to keep my health card valid.

Dear leon can throw some light on this issue.

Your health card has absolutely nothing to do with your PR status.  Your PR status has to do with Immigration Canada.  To keep your PR status, you must stay in Canada for at least 730 days in any rolling 5 year period.  The PR status allows you to live, work or study in Canada.

Your health card is issued by your province.  Each province has its own rules.  Some will give you a health card on the first day of taking up residence if you are moving from another country.  Others make you wait for 3 months.  All of them, as far as I know, require you to live in the province for at least 6 months a year in order to keep your health care coverage.  They do not want a person who doesn't live and pay taxes in the province to keep a health card indefinitely and only come to get some free care when they have a health problem.  In some provinces, there may be exceptions where you are leaving temporarily and let them know about it, you may be able to keep your health card longer and in Ontario, I know there is a requirement how long you must live in ON in your first 6 months of having OHIP.

Therefore, you can be a PR without a health card or you can have a health card (temporary worker for example) without having PR.  The two have nothing to do with each other.

[baba1234]

Dear Leon,

Thank you very much for ur promt reply,

[choy_choy]

Hi. I hope you can shed some light on this. I am in canada on a working visa valid until 2012 and applied as immigrant which was just approved.  They requested for my passport for visa stamping. My question is, can I travel out of canada after getting back my passport and do my landing at the airport when I come back?

[Leon]

Hi. I hope you can shed some light on this. I am in canada on a working visa valid until 2012 and applied as immigrant which was just approved.  They requested for my passport for visa stamping. My question is, can I travel out of canada after getting back my passport and do my landing at the airport when I come back?

Yes you can.