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david01

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Mar 24, 2015
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Hello everybody,

As I can see, you are an exceptional community here and I really hope you can help us.

I entered Canada in 2008 with my wife and our 2 sons and left the country in 2009. We came back to our home country because my mother and later on my wife’s mother and father had serious health problems - it was mandatory for us to take care of them.
The thing is in the meantime our PR cards expired and now as the health problems seems to finish, we hope that we could return to Canada without starting a new immigration process which would cost time and money. Could you suggest any possibility we can use?

I don’t know if this is important but one of our sons is an excellent swimmer and his dream is to swim for the national team of Canada (in fact he is so good that even has a swimming record in our home country).

Thank you – any help would be highly appreciated!
 
Do you hold visa exempt passports?
 
You son's dreams have nothing to do with Canada's immigration laws.

At this point your best chance is to try to get a US visa and enter Canada by land using your COPR. You will be most likely be reported but at least you will be able to appeal the decision inside Canada.

If you try to get a PRTD at a visa office abroad, you will most likely get refused. You can still appeal un H&C basis when you are outside but chances of success become slimmer.
 
Thank you CanV for your reply.

As I understand so far, we only have 2 solutions:

1. to try to get a US visa and enter Canada by land using our COPR
2. to start a new immigration process

Any other options?
 
david01 said:
As I understand so far, we only have 2 solutions:
1. to try to get a US visa and enter Canada by land using our COPR
2. to start a new immigration process
Any other options?

The third option was already mentioned by CanV:

3. Apply for a PR Travel Document based on humanitarian and compassionate grounds from your home country. Very high chance it will be refused given how long ago your PR cards expired. But you can certainly try.

Note that for option #1, you will have to enter Canada in a private vehicle (e.g. friend's car). You cannot use a commercial mode of transportation (e.g. bus or taxi).