PR Renewal - Doubts and Questions

[CarolinCanada]

hey guys!

I'm submitting the application for my husband's PR renewal and I have a few questions.

Form 5644e:

• In this form, there is one upload button, but the form itself is a checklist that asks for other documents. How do I upload all of them?
• Do we need to print form 5644e, and sign, scan and then upload?
• I'm using NOA for the last 5 years, plus a few rental agreements and one old (Jan 2025) letter of employment. Would that be enough?

Residency Obligations:

• The guide says that if he travelled less than 1095 days, supporting documents are not mandatory. Is it safe to send the application without it?

Photo:

• He took a professional photo, but anytime I upload it, and complete the crop on the website, it says image is too small, and it's either too bright or too dark. How to make this work?

Thanks!

 

[CNP]

1. 5644e is just a checklist, select documents you would be uploading in this checklist and the upload. For actual documents, there is seperate section at bottom similar to section for photo.

2. Dont recall if 5644e needs to be signed,
but please check. AFAIK, need to just download, fill details (tick boxes as applicable) and then upload.

3. For residency obligation documents, there are not clear instructions. You will have to take a call.

4. Until you upload all required documents, you will not be able to submit the application. So you do need all supporting documents else application may be not be processed.

5. You will have to figure out, there is not direct answer to this. Try tools, apps etc to manage brightness and other details.

Good luck.

 

[CNP]

Neither a promotion nor a subscriber, but I found this on YouTube

 

[dpenabill]

I'm submitting the application for my husband's PR renewal and I have a few questions.

I leave the logistical and mechanical questions for others . . . but I will disagree a bit with @CNP's characterization regarding the RO:

For residency obligation documents, there are not clear instructions.

On the contrary, the IRCC PR card guide's instructions are thorough and clear, and in regard to the Residency Obligation in particular, the instructions in Appendix A: Residency Obligation are clear.


Regarding PR card renewal and supporting documents related to the Residency Obligation:

I'm using NOA for the last 5 years, plus a few rental agreements and one old (Jan 2025) letter of employment. Would that be enough?

The guide says that if he travelled less than 1095 days, supporting documents are not mandatory. Is it safe to send the application without it?

The guide for PR card applications clearly states, in regards to "supporting documents showing that you meet the residency obligation," that the PR applying for a PR card . . .

. . . must provide copies of 2 pieces of evidence that can show you have met the residency in Canada in the five (5) years immediately before the application, or since becoming a PR if it has been less than 5 years​

This is from the guide, Appendix A: Residency Obligation.

There are additional supporting document requirements if the PR has been outside Canada for 1095 or more days in the relevant time period (since landing for new PRs, those landing less than five years ago; otherwise last five years), which relate to qualifying for RO credit for days outside Canada (such as the accompanying a Canadian citizen parent or spouse exception to the RO) or relate to obtaining H&C relief.

So, for a PR who meets the RO based on days present in Canada (that is, a PR who has not been outside Canada for 1095 or more days in the relevant time period), just two items showing activity or presence in Canada need to be submitted as supporting documents for showing RO compliance (compliance is mostly documented by verification of travel history showing the PR was not outside Canada for 1095 or more days in the relevant time period).

One tax year's NOA plus one rental receipt should easily suffice for a PR who meets the RO based on days present in Canada, who has been settled permanently in Canada for some time, and is continuing to live in Canada. For such PRs there is no need to overthink this.