NOTE: If you are applying for a replacement PR card and choose to change your gender to ‘X – Another gender’, you need to complete the Request Form for a Change of Sex or Gender Identifier and send it with your application.
Note: It is a serious offence to give false or misleading information on these forms. The information you provide on your application may be verified.
Be complete and accurate
Fill out all sections. If a section does not apply to you, write “Not Applicable” or “NA”. If your application is incomplete, it will be returned to you and this will delay the processing.
If you need more space for any section, print out an additional page with the appropriate section. Fill out this page and submit it with your application.
Application for a Permanent Resident Card (IMM 5444)
Write your Unique Client Identifier (UCI) in the box at the top right hand corner. Your UCI is an 8 or 10 digit reference number that appears on all correspondence you receive from IRCC. You can also find your UCI on your old PR Card (if you have one).
- Question 1
- Would you like service (correspondence, interview) in English or in French?
- Question 2
- Write the date you became a permanent resident of Canada. You can find this on your Record of Landing (IMM 1000) or Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5688).
- Question 3
- Check only one (1) box to tell us what you are applying for:
- getting your first PR Card (you have not been issued one before) or
- renewing your present PR Card (your current PR Card has or will expire) or
- replacing a PR Card that was lost, stolen destroyed or never received.
Important information: Do not apply for a renewal of your current PR Card if it is still valid for more than nine (9) months (270 days), unless your legal name has changed. Otherwise, your application will be returned.
Section A – Personal Details
- Question 4
- Write your last name (surname or family name) and given names as they appear on your:
- Record of Landing (IMM 1000),
- Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5688), or
- last Permanent Resident Card (include a photocopy of your last PR Card in your application).
- Question 5
- Write your current last name (surname or family name) and given names, if different from question A-4.
Important information: You must provide supporting documents for any change in your name. See: “Legal change of name document” in the Gather Documents section.
- Question 6
- Check one (1) box to identify if you are F-Female, M-Male or X-Another gender.
- Question 7
- Write your date of birth in numerical format.
- Question 8
- Write the name of your country of birth.
- Question 9
- Write the name of your country (or countries) of citizenship. If you are a citizen of more than one country, list your other country of citizenship in the second space provided.
- Question 10
- Check one (1) box to identify the colour of your eyes. If none of the options apply, write an explanation in the “other” box.
- Question 11
- Write your height in centimetres or in feet and inches.
- Question 12
- Write the address where you live in Canada with postal code.
Note: All correspondence will go to this address unless you provide your e-mail address in question 14.
- Question 13
- Write your mailing address, with postal code, if different from your address in question A-12.
Note: If you provide your mailing address, all correspondence will be sent there. However, PR Cards will not be mailed to third party addresses. If you provide a third party address, your PR Card will be sent to your residential address (the address where you live). PR Cards will only be mailed to post office (PO) boxes if this is your residential mailing address. If you do not provide your residential address, processing will be delayed until you provide it.
- Question 14
- Tell us where you can be reached by telephone and by e-mail, if it applies to you. An alternative telephone number can include a business or cellular telephone.
Note: By providing your e-mail address, you are authorizing IRCC to send your correspondence to this e-mail.
- Question 15
- Check the box to tell us your current marital status.
Section B – Your Immigration History
- Question 16
- Write the city and province in Canada, where you became a permanent resident. If your Record of Landing (IMM 1000) or Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5688) form shows the name of a port of entry (the airport or a border crossing where you became a permanent resident), provide the name of the port of entry as shown on your Record of Landing or Confirmation of Permanent Residence form.
- Question 17
- Check the box to tell us if you have ever been issued a removal order in Canada. You must choose either Yes or No.
- Question 18
- Check the correct box to tell us if an Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officer or a Canadian Border Service Agency officer has ever issued you a Report Under Subsection 44(1) or has made the decision that you have not met the residency obligations for Canadian permanent residents. You must choose either Yes or No.
Section C – Personal History
- Question 19
- Your Address History: You must list all the addresses you have lived at, inside and outside Canada for the past five (5) years, or since becoming a permanent resident if less than five (5) years ago. You must account for each month during this time.
