If you travel to outside of Canada (eg. overseas), and you lose your PR-Card for whatever reason during your trip, after March 15, you will not be able to board the plane back to Canada, unless you have obtain a PR travel document (PRTD).
However, the processing time, apparently is 1 to 2 weeks, provided that you prove that you met your obligations as a PR. That is the question. How stringent is this approval process, and how on earth are you going to supply supporting evidence, unless you prepared a package proving PR status somehow.
I'm thinking of scanning all the documents I would use for the PR-Card application, and create an encrypted zip file or some other means of encrypting an archive, and place it on the internet (eg. Google drive).
Then, should I be faced with having to prove my PR status to a Visa Application Centre, I could just pull that zip file off the net, unpack it, print it all out, and slap it all together in an envelope and express courier it. Describe how you were able to produce such detailed information given you're outside the country, because it might not be usual for people to carry around T4s and tax assessment notices and whatnot.
It's then hoping that a travel document arrives back in time, or else the return flight has to be rescheduled. Some airline companies might let you reschedule a flight for a fee.
Or just fly to a US destination. But that kind of sucks too, because what, fly to like Boston, take a train to Niagara, walk across the bridge, do the customs thing, and take a train to Ottawa? Those train tickets alone cost more than a rescheduled return flight, or a new one way flight I bet.
That PR-Card has a credit card format. Easy to stick in your wallet. I think this is a bad idea. Some countries have way more pick pocket incidences than you hear about in Canada. In some places, these criminals work in teams. Your PR-Card in your wallet in your back jeans pocket is not safe.
Why can't they just scan my eye retina and be done with it? No more passports or PR-Cards or PRTD or eTAs or whatever. Just scan and go.
However, the processing time, apparently is 1 to 2 weeks, provided that you prove that you met your obligations as a PR. That is the question. How stringent is this approval process, and how on earth are you going to supply supporting evidence, unless you prepared a package proving PR status somehow.
I'm thinking of scanning all the documents I would use for the PR-Card application, and create an encrypted zip file or some other means of encrypting an archive, and place it on the internet (eg. Google drive).
Then, should I be faced with having to prove my PR status to a Visa Application Centre, I could just pull that zip file off the net, unpack it, print it all out, and slap it all together in an envelope and express courier it. Describe how you were able to produce such detailed information given you're outside the country, because it might not be usual for people to carry around T4s and tax assessment notices and whatnot.
It's then hoping that a travel document arrives back in time, or else the return flight has to be rescheduled. Some airline companies might let you reschedule a flight for a fee.
Or just fly to a US destination. But that kind of sucks too, because what, fly to like Boston, take a train to Niagara, walk across the bridge, do the customs thing, and take a train to Ottawa? Those train tickets alone cost more than a rescheduled return flight, or a new one way flight I bet.
That PR-Card has a credit card format. Easy to stick in your wallet. I think this is a bad idea. Some countries have way more pick pocket incidences than you hear about in Canada. In some places, these criminals work in teams. Your PR-Card in your wallet in your back jeans pocket is not safe.
Why can't they just scan my eye retina and be done with it? No more passports or PR-Cards or PRTD or eTAs or whatever. Just scan and go.
