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That's a fair point - good idea to travel with as much as possible to identify yourself, ultimately it's the border official that's taking what you give them to determine that you are indeed a citizen and should be allowed to enter. I guess it's just that I couldn't find this conclusively...

The point is you don't need to do any of the above (show old PR cards, COPR papers etc), just use something from the list in the link I shared - provincial drivers license being most obvious.

This is the situation I will be in in the next few weeks and I've confirmed with CBSA that I can show my BC drivers license for them to confirm my identity and status (citizen) in Canada.

It's quite a common situation that folks find themselves in during PR or Citizenship that when their status changes there is a period of time during which they can't board planes, trains etc back to Canada because they have not yet received their PR card or Canadian passports. This is because...

No discernable pattern really. I see you were asked for fingerprints, to my knowledge I've never provided fingerprints, not even during PR. Friends of mine also had to. They asked me to provide scans of my passport though (which I had done during the original application and nothing had changed...

Just adding my dates here: Family application, Vancouver office. Presence: 1099.5 Application sent: July 16 2021 Application delivered: July 19 2021 AOR - Aug 31 2021 Background check - Nov 25 2021 Test completed - Jun 30th 2022 Everything else (language, physical, prohibitons) - Sep 20 2022...

I landed on 1 April 2018, traveled to the U.S. on 5 April and returned to Vancouver on 8 April. Air Canada allowed me to board based on my work visa that is in my passport. When you land as PR the border control officer only strikes out your IM1 immigration visa, not your W1 work visa or your...