I will submit my renewal application after Sep 1st.
Since that is after the fifth year anniversary of your date of landing, the main thing is that as of the day you make the PR card application you have been physically present IN Canada for at least 730 days in the preceding five years (again, as of that day).
As long as you are here, living in Canada, unless you have travel expectations which would require you to have a valid PR card, there is no problem waiting to apply after your current PR card expires. But if it is readily apparent you are now well settled here, in Canada, and have been for two years, there also should be no problem applying for a new PR card sooner, as long as you meet the PR Residency Obligation based on days present IN Canada.
I became PR in April 2018 and immediately left the country. Then I moved back to Canada on July 15' 21 and will meet RO by July 15' 23.
I did not start working till Sep 1st 2021 and even my bank statements wont show any activity till Sep 2021.
Can I use my airline ticket as proof that I entered Canada on July 15th? or wait till Sep 1st to submit an renewal application?
Please let me know which one is safer. I don't have any immediate travel plans. Thanks.
In regards to making a PR card application . . .
Assuming you are a PR who is currently living in an established place of residence in Canada, and a PR who meets the PR Residency Obligation based on actual presence in Canada as of the date you make the PR card application, just as one example among many, a September 2021 bank statement and a June 2022 telephone bill will be enough to submit with the application as supporting documents.
In particular . . .
If you have a September 2021 bank statement issued by a Canadian bank for an account in your name, showing your address in Canada, and that is the address where you were living in Canada at that time, that is one of the types of documents the PR card applicant is asked to submit, one of the two pieces of evidence showing residence in Canada.
If you have a pay stub or T-4 or any other employer issued document showing you were employed IN Canada during a time you were present and residing in Canada, during the last five years, that would be another one of the types of documents the PR card applicant is asked to submit, one of the two pieces of evidence showing residence in Canada.
Those two should be plenty UNLESS there is something in your situation that causes IRCC to have questions or concerns about the accuracy or completeness of the travel history YOU report (in question 5.5 in the application).
(If there is something in your situation that causes IRCC to have questions or concerns about the accuracy or completeness of the travel history YOU report, odds are there will be non-routine processing; this may or may not involve a request for more evidence/proof related to documenting days in Canada. While it is possible that
*better* evidence submitted as supporting documents might make a difference and help avoid non-routine processing, but there is no reliable indication of this and it is unlikely in most scenarios.)
There are several other options listed in the Appendix in the Guide, and it explicitly allows for "
any other documents" that would constitute proof of your presence in Canada. Thus, among many other pieces of evidence the PR card applicant could submit, it could be a hydro bill, or telephone bill, or internet service bill, among many other types of documents evidencing you were living in Canada at that time, for any period of time during the last five years . . . and a period of time you were in fact actually residing in Canada.
Revisiting Strength of Supporting Documents . . . again, again, again . . .
For a PR who is currently living in an established place of residence in Canada, who meets the PR Residency Obligation based on actual presence in Canada, discussions about the strength of evidence submitted as supporting documents to show compliance with the RO are mostly a
DISTRACTION.
A lot of the discussion in the forum about what to submit as supporting evidence, supporting documents, is OVERTHINKING. Some, perhaps more than a few, might not agree with this, but there really is no hint that IRCC wants anything more than just something, just two pieces of evidence, that corroborate the PR has actually been living IN Canada during the period of time the PR reports living in Canada . . . not necessarily for any particular length of time.
The length of time is shown by the PR's travel history, as corroborated by the PR's address and work history.
NOTE: IRCC
only just this year revised the application checklist and guide so that PR card applicants (who meet the RO based on presence in Canada) are required to submit "
two pieces of evidence that can show residency in Canada."
Prior to this year, this was NOT required. While the guide and checklist caused some confusion in this regard following revisions made last year, in 2022, the instructions and checklist prior to that absolutely did not so much as suggest that PR card applicants who met the RO based on presence in Canada needed to provide any supporting evidence of RO compliance.
The instruction guide does not suggest, let alone outright instruct, PR card applicants submit evidence comparable to responding to a Residency Questionnaire.
The primary proof of meeting the RO is the PR's travel history. As long as IRCC has no reason to doubt the accuracy or completeness of the travel history, each of the two supporting documents to be included just need to show the PR was residing in Canada (any objective document showing PR's name and residential address)
or working in Canada (any objective document showing the PR was working in Canada)
or engaged in some other activity in Canada, evidence which is consistent with the travel, address, and work history reported in the application.
There is no hint that IRCC is asking for more than that. And this makes total sense. Two documents that the PR represents are evidence that show residency in Canada will tie the PR's application information to physical evidence of actually having been here and living here. That gives IRCC some solid information that can be cross-checked and verified . . . if IRCC sees a need to do that, which I'd expect would not be often, not routinely.
