Flying to India for 2 weeks while waiting for a PR card

[chetancan]

I landed in Canada in October with a CoPR. It's been more than 90 days and I'm yet to receive my PR card.
Tricky situation is that I have to travel to India for a couple of weeks for a family emergency and then travel back to Canada within 2 weeks. IRCC says there are 2 options:
1: PR Travel Document: Processing time being minimum 25 days. (More than my stay duration in India)
2: Traveling to Canada by Car: This option is ruled out in my case

Can anyone on this forum suggest me how to proceed in this situation? Multiple emails to CIC haven't helped as I keep getting template replies from them.

I have a Tourist Visa too for Canada valid up to 2021. Will that work as a travel document? In addition to the CoPR, which I will be carrying with me to India.

 

[foodie69]

You are no longer a tourist. You are a permanent resident, so that won't work.

 

[chetancan]

You are no longer a tourist. You are a permanent resident, so that won't work.

Then what is the mode left for travel from and to Canada?

 

[steaky]

Then what is the mode left for travel from and to Canada?

How about on board a private boat to Canada?

If this is also out, then I suggest you wait for your PR card.

 

[Bs65]

Apart from applying for a PRTD you could change your return flight to come back via the US/Canada land border assuming you have a US visa of course. All you would need to enter Canada then would be your passport and COPR plus you could walk across the border, does not need to be by car.

Initial PR cards should only take 6-8 weeks so does seem strange still waiting after 90 days. Technically your TRV should have been cancelled by now given you are a PR although some people in a similar situation as you try their luck at the airline checkin, whether they succeed or not no idea, but really as PRs they should not. Not sure showing your COPR at checkin will make any difference either given it will depend on what the agent has in front on them on their screen, board or no board for a PR.

A few discussions on here that the whole process would be much simpler to somehow maintain a link to PR card status to an individuals passport which gets scanned at checkin each time for international travel but so far nothing happening on that.

 

[steaky]

Initial PR cards should only take 6-8 weeks so does seem strange still waiting after 90 days. Technically your TRV should have been cancelled by now given you are a PR although some people in a similar situation as you try their luck at the airline checkin, whether they succeed or not no idea, but really as PRs they should not. Not sure showing your COPR at checkin will make any difference either given it will depend on what the agent has in front on them on their screen, board or no board for a PR.

A few discussions on here that the whole process would be much simpler to somehow maintain a link to PR card status to an individuals passport which gets scanned at checkin each time for international travel but so far nothing happening on that.

A few discussions on here also indicated initial PR card took more than 90 days due to reasons such as immigration officer did not input the mailing address correctly. So not strange at all.