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Soft landing in a different city than your destination: which address to give for your PR card

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By VisaBuddies Communityvia community — compiled from public visa forums

Documents Needed

  • Canadian mailing address

    Any valid Canadian address works for PR card delivery — it does not have to be in your declared destination province.

Step-by-Step

An Express Entry applicant planning a soft landing in Montreal worried they had no contact in Toronto (their declared destination) to receive their PR card. The thread resolved it:

  1. You do need to give an address. A member confirmed there's no way around providing a Canadian address — PR card processing and delivery require one.

  2. But it can be any Canadian address, not necessarily in your destination city or province. A fellow Express Entry landee shared first-hand experience: despite being an EE (federal) applicant, their PR card was delivered to a Montreal address without issue.

  3. Practical approach for soft landings: give the border officer (or update via the IRCC portal) whatever Canadian address you can reliably receive mail at — a friend, relative, or your temporary accommodation — even if it's in the city where you're landing rather than where you told IRCC you'd settle.


This removed the poster's assumption that the PR card address had to match the destination city on their application.

Dos, Don'ts & Tips

  • Do: Provide any reliable Canadian mailing address for PR card delivery — it doesn't have to be in your declared destination province.
  • Don't: Don't delay your landing because you lack a contact in your declared destination city; a first-hand account confirmed delivery to a different city worked.

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