Not sure if PR status was Renounced

[Lil sis]

My sister obtained her PR status 22 years ago but chose to stay in the UK. She has not fulfilled the RO although she has travelled back and forth on vacation to Canada on several occasions. On one such occasion 15 years ago she was questioned while entering the Canada about not fulfilling her RO and handed in wLhat I believe was her COPR to the individual that questioned her.

She is currently visiting Canada again on vacation and has never had an issue with entering the country. Can someone let me know if she automatically voluntarily renounced her PR status when she handed back her COPR? A written notice to state the she had lost her PR status was never received 15 years ago at my parents home which is her canadian address.

Can she now just stay in the Canada for the next 2 years to fulfill her PR status? Thanks in advance.

 

[CanV]

It seems that she was reported and has lost her PR status at the time she made her visit and was asked to surrender her COPR but I am not sure why she was asked to surrender COPR from the first place. Regardless, you mentioned she visited Canada few times since, was she admitted as visitor or did she enter as a PR? Look in her passports for the Canadian stamps and see if there are any dates indicating she had to leave by a certain time. If you find any then she entered as a visitor. If you don't then she could still have entered as visitor and allowed to stay for 6 months. When she arrives in Canada, she fills out a declaration card. In it she has to declare whether she is a citizen or permanent resident or if she is a visitor. What was she typing? If she wrote it wrong then they would have said something.

 

[Lil sis]

The only dates she has stamped in her passport are entry dates. There are no other dates and nothing indicates she has to leave in 6 months. She believed that she had lost her PR status so she always indicates that she is a visitor on the declaration form.

 

[CanV]

The only dates she has stamped in her passport are entry dates. There are no other dates and nothing indicates she has to leave in 6 months. She believed that she had lost her PR status so she always indicates that she is a visitor on the declaration form.

When a visitor is admitted and the passport is stamped the visitor is normally allowed to stay for 6 months and the officer will not write that next to the stamp. However if the officer decides to allow less than 6 months then the date which she must leave will be written next to the stamp.

I too think she lost her PR status but I am not sure how things were going 15 years ago then she received no communication by mail informing her of official decision on her immigration status.

 

[PMM]

Hi

When a visitor is admitted and the passport is stamped the visitor is normally allowed to stay for 6 months and the officer will not write that next to the stamp. However if the officer decides to allow less than 6 months then the date which she must leave will be written next to the stamp.

I too think she lost her PR status but I am not sure how things were going 15 years ago then she received no communication by mail informing her of official decision on her immigration status.

1. Prior to 2002 a PR could only be outside Canada for 6 months and if was found that their intention was to abandon Canada then they lost their PR status.

Immigration Act 1976 Section 24

Where person ceases to be permanent resident

(1) A person ceases to be a permanent resident when:

(a)that person leaves or remains outside Canada with the intention of abandoning Canada as that person's place of permanent residence; or

(b)a removal order has been made against that person and the order is not quashed or its execution is not stayed pursuant to subsection 73(1).

Where residence deemed abandoned

(2) Where a permanent resident is outside Canada for more than one hundred and eighty-three days in any one twelve month period, that person shall be deemed to have abandoned Canada as his place of permanent residence unless that person satisfies an immigration officer or an adjudicator, as the case may be, that he did not intend to abandon Canada as his place of permanent residence.