Immigration Help!
 

My friend got her Canadian PR card approved and now has to send her passport to get her VISA stamped in it. The catch is that she no longer lives in Canada. And this is what the letter says.

She doesnt live in Canada and she is wondering if they will send it back to her via regular mail to New Zealand or does it have to be Canadian or US address.

Thanks for any help

Your answer.

Best bet is to have it returned to a Canadian address then mail it again to New Zealand

isn't there an embassy in New Zealand? Maybe they can help you out with the stamps. Long shot though.

yeah with other countries you can deal with ith through the embassy i cant see canada being different

If you are not living in Canada anymore, it is well within the rights of Immigration Canada to ask more questions and even ask for it back and tell you to GTFO. I have a friend who is a VP at Pfizer living in NY, he hasn't been in Canada for a while. He was unceremoniously refused entry and everything canceled right in front of him.

PR is permanent residency card, they expect you to be here. The person is NOT a Canadian citizen. Don't expect any special treatment, when they say US/Canada only, they mean it.

^ ding ding ding.

Same situation is occurring to my cousin in California. She's been waiting over a year now for the approval of her Green Card, she's been told that she cannot leave the country, which she hasn't. The moment she does, her application is automatically withdrawn.

Same situation applies here.

I thought they had to stay in the country? But it make sense what godwin said

Well her correspondence has been going to Auckland and in her updated application she had told them she left the country because her work permit had expired. They knew her situation but still awarded her the PR card after she sent her application.

Yeah I understand what you mean. But her situation is different as she has just been approved for her PR card and she sent her updated application saying she left the country only because her work permit has expired. She never had a PR card to begin with but now she has been approved for it.

so she sends in her passport from wherever she is now with a return addressed envelope to you or someone in canada and then you express it back to her after its been stamped.
But it still wont be activated till she goes to a port of entry for final bs.
I just completed a PR application with my GF two months ago

Thanks that clarifies alot and its useful knowing someone else has gone through the same situation.

thats just scamming the system! If you want a PR card stay in the fucken country

Ugh, not quite. Scamming the system would be saying that you married a Canadian Citizen and then after you got citizenship, you divorce. And after you divorce, you bring in every single family member you have ever known and even some that you don't know into the country to suck up all the potential benefits.

Now THAT is scamming the system.

Though I wouldn't do what Phil said, the best advice is to give the immigration guys a call and ask for help.

Get lost. Its hardly scamming the system.
People need to live and if this persons work/visitor visa expired while waiting for our stupid slow immigration system, full of dumb stone walls, road blocks and inept people. Of course they have to go back to their country of origin to work and gather some money to bring back to Canada.
When it comes to PR applications what should take no more then a few months often takes upwards of two years. Hell they made me and my gf go to Seatlle twice for interviews and other bs paperwork because they misplaced parts of our application. When we got there the second time I was told *Oh you could have just sent us those documents you didnt need to drive down here* I coulda killed the bitch. By letter and by phone they insisted we go to them with the documents in hand or be denied PR.

I honestly think you need to read what I exactly wrote you fuck head. How is it scamming the system if u do exactly what they say and be honest on your application. She left cause she had to due to her work permit expiring.