Port of Entry

[BillyWescott]

Hi all,

I have received PPR. Now waiting for COPR.

Does anyone know if one has to enter Canada through a port of entry directly located on the province of choice selected in the PR application?

For example, if I ticked that I wanted to go to Toronto in my PR application, can I actually land in Vancouver and stay in BC?

Thanks

 

[k.h.p.]

Provided that your immigration pathway isn't a restrictive Provincial Nomination Program that will seek to punish you for living in a different province, you can land anywhere (except Quebec, though you could land there with proof of intent to settle elsewhere) and live anywhere.

 

[BillyWescott]

Thanks!

So basically even if I land in Ontario, I cannot relocate to Quebec? What is the requirement before being able to relocate to QC? Do we have to live a certain number of years in other provinces?

 

[k.h.p.]

You're interested in Vancouver, I thought.

You can't land and make initial residence in Quebec without going through Quebec's immigration procedures. That involves a CSQ (Quebec Selection Certificate) and other procedures.

Once you're a PR and landed in Canada, though, you have the same rights as any other Canadian to move to Quebec.

 

[BillyWescott]

Sounds good thanks!

Yea I'd like to go to Vancouver though Montreal would be a hell of a lot easier for me from a professional perspective and a social standpoint (I have good friends there).