Officials of Maple Leaf Card are called "cards", and English is called "PR card". Because there are maple leaf patterns on the card, many Chinese immigrants call it a maple leaf card. The maple leaf card is valid for 5 years and has expired 5 years.

Intersection The meaning of changing the maple leaf card is

Some people think that Maple Leaf Card is a "ID card" sent by the Canadian government to its permanent residents. In fact, this concept is inaccurate.

Maple leaf card is not a document for every permanent resident in Canada. It is just a travel document that can be used to use it when Canada can use it in Canada. If the Canadian permanent residents will never leave the exit, he will not have a maple leaf card.

Even if you return to Canada from the land channel of private cars, Maple Leaf Card is not a file that must be displayed, but you can use other documents to prove your Canadian permanent resident identity, such as "permanent resident confirmation" (belonging) or other things. "Permanent resident confirmation" is just a wrinkle rotten paper, but this is the most basic document proved to someone in Canadian permanent residents.

It is said that "permanent resident confirmation" is a "rotten paper" not derogatory, but facts. That paper was repeated, and the handwriting was written on it.

Perhaps the Canadian Ministry of Immigration also believes that the document is too dilapidated and inconvenient to use. Therefore, in 2004, it launched a simple, durable, transparent plastic card "Maple Leaf Card" as a travel document for permanent Canadian residents.

After playing there, all commercial transportation must be displayed to the Maple Leaf Card, such as civil aviation, trains, buses and other commercial transportation.

Take me, every time you fly from Beijing to Vancouver, there are at least three links on the way. Must be used.

When the first meeting was at the boarding process of the Beijing Airport Airlines counter, their staff wanted to see the maple leaf card. After confirming that international flight passengers arrived at their destinations, the airline's responsibility.

The second link is that when the Beijing Airport is not at the customs, the border inspection police should check the maple leaf card. In China, there is no passport in China. There are many passports, air tickets and destinations.

The third link is that when entering Vancouver Airport, the police at the Canadian Border Service (CBSA) should check the Maple Leaf Card (now Vancouver Airport provides a self -service customs clearance service and needs to scan the maple leaf card instrument on it).

Therefore, every year, like me, I must fly between Beijing-Vancouver twice or three times. If there is no maple leaf card in my hand, it is definitely impossible.

At the beginning, the maple leaf card was valid for 5 years. When the old card is valid for less than 6 months, you can start applying for a new card.

But Maple Leaf Card does not mean that it can be changed. The Canadian Immigration Agency will take this opportunity to review whether you fulfill the "life obligation of Permanent residents in Canada".

If they find that you have not fully fulfilled this residence obligation, then maple leaf cards may not be guaranteed even if your Canadian permanent resident identity.

SO is called "the residence obligation of Canadian permanent residents" means that in the past 5 years, it must live in Canada for 731 days in the past 5 years (two years and 1 day).

This regulation is called "immigration prison" by many immigrants -if you want to retain Canadian permanent residence, you must bring out a period of time and not move in Canada like squatting prison.

With the "supervisor", there will be "jailbreak". In this information age, the earth is as small as a village. You want a person to stay in the house for many years, which is difficult! Although the Canadian Immigration Department has greatly reduced the time of "immigration supervision", many immigrants still cannot meet the requirements.

In this way, the Canadian government feels panic, because he absorbs the main purpose of immigration to make up for the lack of family labor. To this end, he spends a lot of money to train new immigrants each year.

In addition, Canada is also realistic. From the first day of landing, new immigrants have enjoyed various benefits equivalent to Canadian citizens. For those who are not satisfied with the "immigration supervisor", the Canadian government believes they are playing with money and drift. They became unfair.

Therefore, in the past two years, Canada has begun to review his immigration policy and put forward some "reform measures", including when permanent residents strictly review whether they are full of "immigration supervisors", he will start with his hand. Refers to calculating your life in Canada every day.

His several days of methods are also "very yellow and violent": require you to use the passport used in the past 5 years-several of them copy, and then copy all the entrances and exit seals on the passport. They are translated into English in English And he sent him to the past. He wants to verify your actual time in Canada before entering and exiting the seal.

This is expensive! Can't he read related data from the entrance and withdrawal from the computer of the management department? No, because Canada has only entry management and no station management, the database of Canadian border service agencies can only prove when you return to Canada, but it cannot prove when you set off.

The information of the entry and exit of other countries has no obligation to share with him (except the United States has an agreement to enter and exit information sharing). Therefore, he can only adopt this stupid way.

The Immigration Department is so serious that I dare not ignore it, and the seal date on the passport will be added one by one, and then this day will be added every day. Prepare information and send it to the Immigration Department.

The copy of the two passports (I used two passports in the past 5 years), the translation of the entrance and export seal, and some miscellaneous tables downloaded on the official website of the immigration department, and exchanged all maple leaves to need card. The files are together, with a thick stack. How long can the bureaucrats of the immigration department be completed? There is a saying on the official website: 89 days.

Based on this progress, I can't wait to send it off, and I have returned to China. Of course, you can also participate in the emergency plan, but I don't think the necessity is great. After the new card is completed, it will be sent to the house in Vancouver. When I came to Canada next time, the trustee brought it back to Beijing without delay.

Time is not too great. The problem is ... not all new cards will mail it directly to the applicant. Some applicants will be informed of the Immigration Office's office to get the card in person and accept some inquiries from immigrant officials.

Unfortunately, I "Zhizhong" would be more troublesome, because I was already in China at that time, and the old maple leaf card in my hand had expired. When I returned to Canada to see immigration officials, I could only go to the Canadian embassy to apply for a visa. nature

The Canadian Embassy and Consulate offer an admission visa called "PRTD", which is used to use permanent Canadian residents without a maple leaf card.

I hope everything goes well. Next time I came to Canada, I took a new maple leaf card instead of that PRTD.