I forgot my permanent residency card. Can I go back to Canada? How?

[justtheme]

Hi forum - important question:

I just left Canada for 4 days (to Boston) and forgot my PR card back home. My card is not expired. I brought my SIN card by mistake instead. My PR status is valid. And I have a photo of my PR card with me. What can I do? Will I be allowed to board the plane back? Should I just prove that I'm a resident? Thanks in advance!!

 

[scylla]

Where are you from? What passport do you hold?

Not enough information provided to answer your question.

 

[justtheme]

I have a Venezuelan passport. Thanks!

 

[scylla]

You need to have either a valid PR card or a valid Travel Document in hand in order to board your flight back to Canada. The airline won't let you on the plane without one of these documents (unfortunately a photocopy isn't enough). Is there someone in Canada who can overnight courier your PR card to you in Boston?

Alternatively you can re-enter Canada via a land border crossing – provided you do this in a private vehicle (e.g. friend's car) and provided you have your COPR with you.

 

[justtheme]

You need to have either a valid PR card or a valid Travel Document in hand in order to board your flight back to Canada. The airline won't let you on the plane without one of these documents (unfortunately a photocopy isn't enough). Is there someone in Canada who can overnight courier your PR card to you in Boston?

Alternatively you can re-enter Canada via a land border crossing – provided you do this in a private vehicle (e.g. friend's car) and provided you have your COPR with you.

Thanks. What is a COPR?

 

[Quink]

Get in touch with the Consulate General of Canada in Boston and ask them what you need to do in order to return to Canada. Time is a factor, so I would suggest calling them as soon as possible. They might be able to issue you with a travel document on the spot if you make an appointment with them.

 

[justtheme]

Get in touch with the Consulate General of Canada in Boston and ask them what you need to do in order to return to Canada. Time is a factor, so I would suggest calling them as soon as possible. They might be able to issue you with a travel document on the spot if you make an appointment with them.

I already asked them and they said I have to apply for a PR Travel Document which takes 52 days. I'm supposed to head back on Saturday.

 

[Msafiri]

I already asked them and they said I have to apply for a PR Travel Document which takes 52 days. I'm supposed to head back on Saturday.

Venezuelan nationals are not visit visa exempt to Canada so no commercial carrier will transport you to Canada without a valid PR Card or a PRTD as proof of your PR status. Go with scylla's suggestion and see if PR Card can be couriered overnight with guaranteed pick up say Thursday. Alternatively get to a land border crossing and present your landing papers (COPR/IMM1000). This may require an internal US flight say to Buffalo then drive over one of the bridges to Niagara Falls, ON. If you don't have landing papers on you get someone back home to email you a scanned copy including of the PR Card then print this out and have to hand for CBSA as it will speed up the inspection process.

 

[justtheme]

One more question: If I traveled back by car via Buffalo, would that be a possibility? I have a copy of my PR card, my SIN card and health card with me.

 

[Dhudson]

Ask anybody who can mailed your PR cart by mail to you (Boston). Express mail could take just few days.

 

[Msafiri]

One more question: If I traveled back by car via Buffalo, would that be a possibility? I have a copy of my PR card, my SIN card and health card with me.

Sure thing. Enjoy the road trip eh!