Hello!
I saw that on the application for PR renewal they want now to know if you ever received a PRTD? This question is new, right?
I received a PRTD in the past, because of a delay in the delivery of my first PR Card and I had to leave the country. This cannot be an issue, or? Why would they want to know this now?
Short response: no indication of cause for worry. Respond accurately and honestly.
Otherwise . . . This is "
new" compared to the 2020 version of the application for a new PR card, which to be clear is not to renew PR status, but to renew an expired, or soon to expire status card; that is, this is an application to get a new or replacement status card.
PR card applications have asked for this information for more than the last three years, at least since IMM 544 (06-2022)E was adopted in the summer of 2022; was not asked in the previous version, IMM 544 (02-2020)E. (Whether the applicant had been issued a removal order or an inadmissibility report, or subject to a decision they had not met the RO, was included in Immigration history questions in the 2020 application.)
Assuming the PR applying to renew their PR card has always engaged in transactions with Canadian immigration officials (within IRCC, CIC, or CBSA) under the same identity (so always using the same client number), IRCC can readily look up the PR's "
Immigration History" including whether they have ever been issued a removal order, an inadmissibility report, or lost PR status, or made an appeal to the IAD, or been issued a Travel Document or a PR TD (all questions asked in item 3 titled "
Immigration History" in current paper version of application). So, IRCC already knows the correct answer to these immigration history questions
unless the individual has more or less changed identity without disclosing it to Canadian immigration officials.
"This cannot be an issue, or? Why would they want to know this now?"
Obviously, if the PR applying to renew their PR card had been issued a PR TD under a different name and client id number, that could indeed be an issue. Potentially a serious issue, and depending on the details, possibly even a crime. A failure to disclose this would compound the problem.
That is not your situation. It appears there is no reason to apprehend there is "
an issue" regarding this in your case. (Application also asks for the applicant to disclose their current marital status; not likely any truthful answer would be "
an issue.")
I am not sure that the relevancy noted by
@armoured explains "
why" IRCC is asking for this information now. Obviously, any Canadian immigration history is relevant. My sense is that the relevancy of this information is as much about collateral information that is relevant to verifying identity and assessing credibility as much as it might be to calculating RO compliance.
Generally, however, PRs do not need to concern themselves with why IRCC is asking for this or that information. The applicant's task is to understand what is being asked and to give an accurate, honest answer responsive to the question asked.
