PR visa while you are in Canada

[mehrdado]

I have a question:
My families (Wife & Kids) are in Canada and I am in my back country.
We received our PR Vise from Buffalo and we need to leave Vancouver and re-enter again with PR visa.
As I am not in Vancouver I don't have any problem, but about my kids and my wife:
Is it mandatory to leave Canada and re-enter with PR visa?
Should all of us enter Canada at the sae time?
Can I enter Canada and change my status to landed immigrant and then go some where in Vancouver (inside Vancouver area, but outside Canada and re-enter Canada (Vancouver) with the PR visa?
What is the advantage of landed all together and landed separatly?

Please send me any other opinion or concern.

Thanks

[PMM]

Hi

I have a question:
My families (Wife & Kids) are in Canada and I am in my back country.
We received our PR Vise from Buffalo and we need to leave Vancouver and re-enter again with PR visa.
As I am not in Vancouver I don't have any problem, but about my kids and my wife:
Is it mandatory to leave Canada and re-enter with PR visa?
Should all of us enter Canada at the sae time?
Can I enter Canada and change my status to landed immigrant and then go some where in Vancouver (inside Vancouver area, but outside Canada and re-enter Canada (Vancouver) with the PR visa?
What is the advantage of landed all together and landed separatly?

Please send me any other opinion or concern.

Thanks

1.  Once you "land" (assuming you are the principal applicant)  Then your wife and kids can "land" in Canada by phoning the call centre 1 888 242‑2100  and make an appointment to "land" at CIC Vancouver.  The only disadvantage is that you will eligible for citizenship before them.  They will have to take the Goods to Follow list, if any to CBSA office in Canada.

PMM

[mehrdado]

Thank you PMM,
The disadvantage is "just few days days differences between my landing and theirs". Is that right?

Thanks

Mehrdad