If you ship your PR card, it is subject to confiscation by CBSA. I wrote a post when some fly by night websites started advertising PR shipping services, re-posting it here:
Some companies are advertising settlement services, and as a part of this are offering shipping of PR Cards. Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canadian Immigration Law) section 140 states:
If your PR card is shipped outside Canada, it MAY be confiscated subject to section 140 of IRPA. The lawful owner of the PR card can file an application to CBSA for the return of the PR card by filing the application <
https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/…/forms-formulai…/bsf699-eng.pdf>
The same scammers will also show you a provision of the Canada Post Corporation Act and cite that as per section 42 only incoming mail is subject to search. Section 42 states:
However, immediately after this, sub clause 1.1 states:
(1.1) On request of a customs officer, all mail leaving Canada for a place outside Canada that contains or is suspected to contain anything the exportation of which is prohibited, controlled, regulated or subject to reporting under the Customs Act or any other Act of Parliament shall be submitted by the Corporation to the customs officer.
Also, claims of having shipped numerous documents does not make an illegal thing legal, just because someone was not caught.
If caught, the PR Card holder has the onus to show:
• you were the lawful owner of the document before its seizure and remain the lawful owner;
• you did not participate in the fraudulent or improper use of the document;
• you exercised all reasonable care to determine that the person permitted to have the document was not likely to use the document fraudulently or improperly; and
• the return of the document would not be contrary to the purposes of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
Apply your judgment and do not be fooled by such scams.