Hi everyone,
My PR card is valid from 2020-7-29 to 2025-7-29 and I have been out of Canada since 2020-1-29. Due to some personal issue, I may only have chance to return to Canada in the late 2024 or the early 2025. Will I be refused to enter Canada at airport by CBSA officer as my card only has 1 year to expire? I am so worried about being refused to enter ....Hope someone can help me on this
I agree with the observation by
@scylla
HOWEVER, if you are outside Canada for nearly five years (January 2020 to late 2024 or early 2025), the risk of a 44(1) Report for inadmissibility being prepared, upon your return, is high. We cannot quantify that risk any more precisely than a ballpark generality, but a near five year absence does not leave border officials much leeway.
I wonder, though, if you meant you left Canada in January 2021, rather than 2020 (looking at the date your PR card was issued). A nearly four year absence is still glaring, but during the first five years following landing the risk of a 44(1) Report is probably not so much as it would be returning after a nearly five year absence.
Beyond that, the odds whether the 44(1) Report would result in a decision to terminate your PR status are even more difficult to forecast. It would depend in significant part on your reasons, your "personal issue," keeping you abroad so long.
But you will be allowed to enter Canada. If Reported, a second officer will review your reasons for remaining abroad, considering H&C factors. That officer may set aside the Report, and you would be good to stay. Or the second officer may issue a Removal Order, a decision terminating your PR status. But you would still be allowed to enter Canada and you can appeal. Whether you get to stay, in that event, depends on winning the appeal.
