Hi guys, I am new here but I have read multiple threads on here and found it very useful, so I decided to sign up as I have a question that I couldn't find an exact answer for.
My wife and I are travelling to Japan from Feb 7th to Feb 27th. She has been in Canada for almost 10 years now as a PR, and has renewed her PR card in the past, however, this time around, because of the many different trips we took abroad, we completely forgot about her renewal date for her PR, and it looks very likely that we won't get her card in time before our trip. She is a Japanese citizen. Her PR Card expires Feb 18th, 2019, just 9 days before we are due back in Canada. The day we found out about this fact, we applied for a renewal and sent out our documents on Dec 7th, and FedEx tracking shows that the package was received on Dec 11th.
If the card arrives back in Canada within the first few weeks of us being there, I can have my parents ship it to us express to Tokyo and there won't be any further issues.
Our plan is to go to the airport and try to board the plane. I am a Canadian citizen, but since my would not have her physical PR card, we were hoping to present other supporting documentation, but from reading on here, it seems like she will be denied boarding. If we get the physical PR card back in Canada I could have my parents take pictures of it and send it to us, but I don't think it will be of much help. We have come to Japan at least 5 times in the last 10 years, always without issues, but we never had an expired PR card
We have looked at the PRTD route as well, but it appears in Tokyo it takes between 10 and 30 days to get your PRTD (apparently it's actually processed in Manila, based on some Japanese forums my wife read), so there is no guarantee we would get it back in time for our flight anyways, in which case my wife would be out of a passport without any other alternatives until the PRTD arrives. We won't be in Tokyo until 4 days before our departure, so we would have to ship all the documents pretty much upon landing in Tokyo the first time, before our connection to Sapporo, or ship from Sapporo the following day. She has a friend in Tokyo where she could stay for a few extra nights, but not for an extended period of time. If the PRTD comes on time, everything is great, no extra costs (aside from processing fees), but if it doesn't, we are in worse position as she has to wait for her passport to come back.
Our other option is, upon being denied boarding, is to buy a ticket to Seattle for her. She can fly there the following day, in the mean time, I would proceed to Canada by myself, land, sleep, grab some food, and start the 14 hour drive to Seattle from Calgary to pick her up. Once at the boarded there is no issues as she does not need the PR card to prove her PR.
Just looking for suggestions to see if there is some other option we overlooked. We would like to contact the Canadian embassy in Japan but with all the holiday we can't do much anywhere until early Jan, so trying to get as much stuff figured out as possible while we are off.
My wife and I are travelling to Japan from Feb 7th to Feb 27th. She has been in Canada for almost 10 years now as a PR, and has renewed her PR card in the past, however, this time around, because of the many different trips we took abroad, we completely forgot about her renewal date for her PR, and it looks very likely that we won't get her card in time before our trip. She is a Japanese citizen. Her PR Card expires Feb 18th, 2019, just 9 days before we are due back in Canada. The day we found out about this fact, we applied for a renewal and sent out our documents on Dec 7th, and FedEx tracking shows that the package was received on Dec 11th.
If the card arrives back in Canada within the first few weeks of us being there, I can have my parents ship it to us express to Tokyo and there won't be any further issues.
Our plan is to go to the airport and try to board the plane. I am a Canadian citizen, but since my would not have her physical PR card, we were hoping to present other supporting documentation, but from reading on here, it seems like she will be denied boarding. If we get the physical PR card back in Canada I could have my parents take pictures of it and send it to us, but I don't think it will be of much help. We have come to Japan at least 5 times in the last 10 years, always without issues, but we never had an expired PR card
We have looked at the PRTD route as well, but it appears in Tokyo it takes between 10 and 30 days to get your PRTD (apparently it's actually processed in Manila, based on some Japanese forums my wife read), so there is no guarantee we would get it back in time for our flight anyways, in which case my wife would be out of a passport without any other alternatives until the PRTD arrives. We won't be in Tokyo until 4 days before our departure, so we would have to ship all the documents pretty much upon landing in Tokyo the first time, before our connection to Sapporo, or ship from Sapporo the following day. She has a friend in Tokyo where she could stay for a few extra nights, but not for an extended period of time. If the PRTD comes on time, everything is great, no extra costs (aside from processing fees), but if it doesn't, we are in worse position as she has to wait for her passport to come back.
Our other option is, upon being denied boarding, is to buy a ticket to Seattle for her. She can fly there the following day, in the mean time, I would proceed to Canada by myself, land, sleep, grab some food, and start the 14 hour drive to Seattle from Calgary to pick her up. Once at the boarded there is no issues as she does not need the PR card to prove her PR.
Just looking for suggestions to see if there is some other option we overlooked. We would like to contact the Canadian embassy in Japan but with all the holiday we can't do much anywhere until early Jan, so trying to get as much stuff figured out as possible while we are off.
