xalam said:
Hi,
Since my citizenship application is a non-routine and it may take more than 1 year to process and I have my PR card expiring less that 6 months,,, so I think to renew my PR card and I'm wondering if it's going to make it worst with my citizenship application.... I mean again fingerprints, documents...etc.
Thank you for your help!
I let my PR card expire while my citizenship application was pending, without applying for it to be renewed. But I had no international travel plans, no anticipated reasons I might need to travel anywhere but the U.S., from which I could easily return to Canada by private vehicle, so far as I knew my citizenship application was routine, and if it had taken much longer for me to be scheduled for the oath I probably would have eventually applied for a new PR card. But I was soon scheduled to take the oath.
Expired PR card was no problem at the interview or when surrendering my expired PR card at the oath.
But of course the best approach, like in respect to most aspects of these processes,
depends on the specific circumstances in the particular individual's case. There rarely is any
one-rule-fits-all and that is true for this query as well.
Bottom-line, the PR card itself is only necessary for international travel, so those who have no reason to anticipate traveling internationally can usually afford to let the PR card expire. Be aware of unanticipated contingencies in deciding whether or not to apply for another card. In any event, keep the expired card, however, to show if and when asked during the continued processing of your citizenship application, and to surrender when you are scheduled to take the oath. In some provinces, an expired PR card may suffice to show when renewing a Drivers license or health care card.
Otherwise, obviously IRCC can and likely will compare information submitted in the respective applications, if a PR card application is submitted while a citizenship application is pending (or the other way around). Obviously, discrepancies could cause problems. Otherwise, however, to the extent concerns are resolved in one process, that should mean those concerns will not arise again in the other. But of course unresolved concerns can impinge both applications, to the extent the concerns are respectively relevant.
Remember, GCMS is a unified system for
all information regarding a client, which even includes FOSS. So IRCC has full access to any and all other applications or transactions a client has with IRCC when processing any given application. Obviously the GCMS screening, which is required to be done again each and every time any significant step is taken in the citizenship application process, will entail reviewing all relevant data for the particular client.
