Travel document PR expired and taken

[Nonbasaqa1]

I had typed that option out but deleted it.

Yes, you could renounce your status and re-apply, too. I presume you would be making a family class application. It would then be up to the visa officer to determine that your relationship is legitimate and not solely for the purposes for you to gain entry into Canada. You can expect this process to take anywhere from a few months to a year if there are no red flags.

Once you've renounced your PR status, you could apply for an eTA and travel to Canada as a visitor. This would mean that you cannot work in Canada without authorization. So, if you are let in to the country as a visitor, you could be with your husband and do what's known as an inland application; meaning you stay in Canada while the application is in process. This stream would also allow you to apply for an open work permit, which usually takes about 4 months to receive. You have to maintain valid status in Canada during the time that the application is in progress, so it is generally not advised that you travel outside of Canada during this time.

You could also remain outside of Canada and apply using the 'outland' application process. This would still allow you to travel to Canada to be with your husband (subject to satisfying a border guard that you are a visitor and don't intend to live permanently or work without the proper authorization). This route would not let you apply for an open work permit. It does, however, allow you to appeal if a negative decision is made on your application. Inland does not offer this possibility.

 

[Nonbasaqa1]

Thank you for your reply.
So if I renounce my status and re-apply, I will lose my job too?

 

[evdm]

Thank you for your reply.
So if I renounce my status and re-apply, I will lose my job too?

Yes,

You will not have any authorization to work in Canada without PR status or a Work Permit. Renouncing the PR status will turn you into a visitor and it would be illegal for you to work in Canada. If caught, you could face an exclusion order meaning you would not be allowed to enter Canada at all for a specified period (usually, I believe, 1 year).

A border guard will also not let you enter Canada as a visitor if they suspect that you will be working without the proper authorization.

One of the routes for you to be able to work in Canada is to renounce your PR status, travel to Canada as a visitor (hope to be let in), then do an inland application for sponsorship and submit an Open Work Permit application together with that (pay special note to the fees you have to pay for the OWP, there are two separate fees and many forget to pay the full amount and their applications get returned to them). The OWP takes 4-5 months to be issued, after which time you could work in Canada again.

 

[Nonbasaqa1]

Thank you so much for all the information.

 

[YVR123]

You are right in the EU things are not that complicated...thank you for your clear reply. Everything became such a mess with the papers. I am a mother and I can't just ignore special days as graduation of my daughter.
I have been thinking alot these days how to "solve" this problem. Maybe the best way is to give up the PR status and apply again? In that case I can enter Canada without any problems, I hope, and within the next years it will be much easier for me to meet the 730 days. Do you think that this way will be the best way in my case as well?
Thank you for your time.

This is just from my personal experience. My parents never came to my graduation. I do not think it's a big deal. May be discuss with your daughter.
So reconsider if this trip is really that important. Specially if you are currently working in Canada and want to keep this job.

 

[evdm]

This is just from my personal experience. My parents never came to my graduation. I do not think it's a big deal. May be discuss with your daughter.
So reconsider if this trip is really that important. Specially if you are currently working in Canada and want to keep this job.

I think the OP has already left Canada and is currently in Sweden.

 

[YVR123]

I think the OP has already left Canada and is currently in Sweden.

Then nothing much she can do.

 

[Almost_Canadian]

Quote : After 4 months we decided to return to Sweden, because it felt wrong to sit at home and not do anything. At least in Sweden they could continue in the former class and school immediately. We moved in to my sisters house because we had sold our apartment too. We waited and waited and summer came and still we didn't get the PR. So I had to rent an apartment and look for job and after the summer the children started in school again.



In the mean time my mother got diagnosed with ALS and she became terminally ill. After one year we received the PR card in the middle of the schoolterm. My mother was very sick and I couldn't leave her. My children were used to school and friends again and it was hard to take them out from classes so I decided to stay here and take care of my mom and wait until my children finished school (and were 18). This period that my mother was sick was very devastating for us and it felt like it was not human from me to leave her behind. She passed away in 2016…

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I'm not familiar with inland PR applications so could anyone fill me in on this part :
OP says she applied for PR in Canada and then because it was taking too long she went back to Sweden. There she spent more time and around a year later the application was approved. She then mentions she got her PR card.
What I'm confused about is that for normal PR application from overseas , we would get a medical etc and then finally get a one entry visa to make the landing and only after that get the PR card.
But in her case, seems she got her PR card in Sweden. Or have I missed something ?

 

[evdm]

You can be in Canada and still submit an outland application. This would allow you to travel more easily without the risk of abandoning the PR application if temporary status is lost in Canada for whatever reason.

Also, for those who are visa exempt and for those who can get a visa, it's entirely possible to travel to Canada while an application for PR is in process.

The process as you describe for landing still applies, but don't confuse the physical card with PR status. I'm guessing the OP did her landing in 2012 as normal after which she left, perhaps just a short visit to Canada. The card would have then been sent to an address in Canada, presumably her husband's, who could have mailed it on to her.