PR card renewal 

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Are you eligible?
To be eligible for a PR Card, you must:

• be a permanent resident of Canada;
  
• be physically present in Canada;
  
• meet the residency requirement (see Appendix A – Residency obligation);
  
• not be under an effective removal order;
  
• not be a Canadian citizen; and
  
• not be convicted of an offense related to the misuse of a PR Card
  

Permanent Residents outside of Canada
If you are outside Canada and do not have a valid PR Card to return, you must get a Permanent Resident Travel Document from a Visa Application Centre or a Canadian visa office.

As a permanent resident, you may travel outside Canada after you arrive. However, you must meet certain residency obligations to maintain your status as a permanent resident.
To meet these residency obligations, you must be physically present in Canada for at least 730 days (2 years) in every 5-year period. The 5-year period is assessed on a rolling basis. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will look back at your time in Canada over the previous 5 years.

This means that you can spend a total of up to 3 years outside of Canada during a 5-year period. However, if you have been a permanent resident for less than 5 years and decide to leave the country for an extended period of time, it is up to you to prove to IRCC that you will be able to meet your residency requirements.

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Can we renew our PR Card with expired passport. CIC web site states that you can apply with a current valid passport or the passport that you had during your PR Landing.

Its highly confusing and contradicting statement can any body clarify this question. With simple yes/no

Include with your application:

• your PR card:
  
• If you are applying to renew your card, keep your current card and include a photocopy of it with your application.
  
• If you are applying to replace a card because it is damaged or the information on it is wrong, send the card with your application.
  
• a clear copy of:
  
• your valid passport or travel document, or
  
• the passport or travel document you held at the time you became a permanent resident
  
• two photos that meet our photo specifications
  
• any other identity documents listed in the Document Checklist (see the application package),
  
• a copy of the receipt for the processing fee, and
  
• a solemn declaration if your PR card was lost, stolen, destroyed or you didn’t receive it within 180 days of immigrating to Canada.

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You must submit the following for any document that is not in English or French, unless otherwise stated on your document checklist:

• the English or French translation; and
  
• an affidavit from the person who completed the translation (if they’re not a certified translator); and
  
• a certified copy of the original document.
  

Important information: Translations must not be done by the applicants themselves nor by an applicant’s parent, guardian, sibling, spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, grandparent, child, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or first cousin.
If the translation is not done by a certified translator (a member in good standing of a provincial or territorial association of translators and interpreters in Canada), you must submit an affidavit swearing to the accuracy of the translation and the language proficiency of the translator.


An affidavit is a document on which the translator has sworn, in the presence of a person authorized to administer oaths in the country where the translator is living, that the contents of their translation are a true translation and representation of the contents of the original document.