PR Status

[cskLeung]

Hello,

I would appreciate it if anyone could give me some advice please. In Feb 2006 I landed Toronto with my Mum and brother, however, I have left in Late of 2006 and just in and out for very short periods for holiday several times within 2001-2003. In 2003 , I’ve got my Permanent Resident Card and it was expired in 2008.

These years, I got married, born a girl and stayed in Hong Kong. I aware that I do not meet PR requirements. However, my husband and I would like to immigrant to Canada now, is there anything that we can do?

Or if I now get back to Canada to stay 2 more years and get a student visa for my girl , is my PR status still valid?

Many thanks

 

[steaky]

I suggest you take a flight to Canada on or before March 15, 2016 using your BN(O) or HKSAR passport. If you were lucky enough without being detected that you lost your PR status during immigration at the airport, once in Canadian soil, you could then begin to sponsor your family to come to this country as new immigrants.

 

[Rob_TO]

I suggest you take a flight to Canada on or before March 15, 2016 using your BN(O) or HKSAR passport. If you were lucky enough without being detected that you lost your PR status during immigration at the airport, once in Canadian soil, you could then begin to sponsor your family to come to this country as new immigrants.

That is not true. She needs to be meeting the residency obligation before she can start the sponsorship process. Try to start it immediately, and CIC will discover she does not meet RO, and most likely her own PR will end up getting revoked.

If she can enter Canada without being reported for meeting RO, then she needs to stay in Canada 2 full years and only after that can she safely start sponsorship app for her family.

 

[Leon]

As others have said. If you want to save your old PR status, you would have to enter Canada without being reported for not meeting the residency requirements and you would have to stay for 2 years unnoticed which means you can not apply to sponsor your husband and child during that time. Because your PR card is long expired, you may have problems getting a drivers license and signing up for health care and your SIN would have been set to dormant status so you may have problems re-activating it or if you never had a SIN, you may have problems getting one. Without a SIN, you can not work legally. So those are the challenges that you will face.

If you look at the CIC website and find that either your or your husband is eligible to apply for PR with your skills and education, you could apply for PR again. However, you would have to lose your old PR either by applying for a travel document and letting it be denied or by renouncing. However, you can also do that later in the application processing for your new PR: